Kerrie Smith is an English artist living and working on the Central Coast of California whose practice bridges geography, history, and lived experience. With formal training from Central Saint Martin’s School of Art in London, where she earned a B.A. with Honors in 3-Dimensional and Theater Design, Smith developed a strong foundation in spatial thinking, materiality, and narrative environments. Her early professional career as a theater set designer in Europe sharpened her ability to build immersive worlds and to think of space as a carrier of story and emotion. Yet Smith’s trajectory did not remain confined to the stage. Over time, she returned to a studio-based, multidisciplinary practice, carrying with her the theatrical sensitivity to atmosphere, scale, and symbolism. Today, her work spans installation, photography, and mixed media, often combining research-driven concepts with poetic visual language. Her art does not simply depict landscapes or histories; it investigates how they are inhabited, remembered, and transformed.

As an internationally recognized artist her work has been exhibited across the U.S. and featured in both solo and group shows/exhibitions including A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn NY. / Atkinson Gallery Santa Barbara CA / Arena I Gallery, Santa Monica CA / Beverly Hills Art Show, CA / Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center Burbank CA / Bettervaria Gallery, Santa Maria CA / BG Gallery Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA / Blam Gallery Los Angeles CA  / Cabana Home Santa Barbara CA / California Art & Nature Museum, Solvang CA / CAW Gallery Santa Barbara CA / Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara CA / Core Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV / Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara CA / Cochrane Theater, London UK / Devereux Foundation Goleta, CA / Dillington House Gallery, Somerset UK / Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach CA / Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles CA / Lancaster Museum of Art and History, CA / Launch Gallery Los Angeles CA / LAAA Gallery 825 LAAA North Hollywood CA / Museum Of Art and History, Lancaster CA / Lyric Hammersmith Theater, London UK / Modernism Week Palm Springs / Neutra Museum Gallery, Silverlake CA  / SoLa Gallery, Inglewood CA / Avenue 50 Studio Inc, Highland Park CA  / Melissa Morgan Gallery Palm Dessert CA / Norah Fry Hospital, Shepton Mallet, Somerset UK / Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana CA / Palm Springs Art Museum Palm Desert, CA / REH Gray Space Gallery, Santa Barbara CA / Riverside Studios, London UK / Santa Barbara County Art Collection CA / Santa Barbara Studio Artist Tour / San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA /  Sarah House, Santa Barbara CA / Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara CA / Symyx Technologies, Santa Clara, CA / TAG Gallery, Los Angeles CA / The Makery Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / UC Irvine Hospital, Joe C. Wren, Family Center, CA / Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA / Wall Space Gallery, Los Angeles CA.

Artist in Residency at the California Nature Art Museum where she exhibited PORTALS & PATHWAYS, an ever changing one year installation inspired by her research and walks at More Mesa Preserve and it’s history dating back 14,000 years ago, the original hunting ground for the Chumash Indians, Santa Barbara, California. 

Kerrie worked as a theater designer in England, France, Holland and the United States collaborating with directors/designers, Director Richard Eyre, Designer Pamela Howard OBE, Designer Ralph Koltai OBE, Director Lucy Parker Ken Russell, Director's John Tillinger and John Wells. 

As an Artist, Art Educator and President of the Art Council Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA, she also founded the non-profit organization Art Walk for Kids/Adults with outreach programs for artists with disabilities. Creating art curriculums approved by the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission for at-risk/developmentally disabled youth and adults and Hope School CA Art Programs. She Curates/Juries for Community Art shows/exhibitions, local schools and Art Groups.

Her programs have received Congressional Awards. Smith received her B.A. from Central Saint Martins, London England. Her work resides in many public and private collections.