Exhibitions / Awards
English Artist Kerrie Smith was born in Somerset County, England and now resides in California. Smith attended Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, England, she received her B.A. with Honors in 3-Dimensional & Theater Design. After a successful career as a Theater-Set designer Ms. Smith returned to painting and photography full time and has exhibited nationally.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY 2022-2023 WILDLING MUSEUM OF ART AND NATURE, SOLVANG CA
2022 | Portals & Pathways, Artist in Residence
2022-2023 Solo Show | California Art and Nature Museum, Solvang CA.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2023 | 5x5, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA, By Invitation.
2023 | Contemplating Boundaries, Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles CA. Juror TeaYoun Kim-Kassor (Professor, Department Chair, Otis College of Art and Design) and Mika Cho (Professor, ART/Director, Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery).
2023 | Architecture in Contemporary Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA. Jurors, Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena.
2022 | Surrealism Now, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA. Juror Andi Campognone.
2022 | Portals & Pathways, Artist in Residence 2022-2023, Solo Show, California Art and Nature Museum, Solvang CA.
2021 | Reflection, Korean Culture Center Los Angeles, CA. Juror Sunook Park & Terell Tilford.
2020 | Time & Memory, Westmont Ridley Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA, Tri-County Juried Exhibition: Juror’s Christopher Miles Professor, School of Art, California State University, Long Beach.
2019 | Brushstrokes, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA: Juried Exhibition: Juror Jerry McLaughlin.
2019 | Body & Soul, Westmont Ridley Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA, Tri-County Juried Exhibition: Juror By Roxanne Sexauer.
2019 | Metamorphosis, Artists Council Inaugural Exhibition, Palm Springs Art Museum Palm Desert, CA, Juried Exhibition: Juror’s Alma Ruiz and Mary Ingebrand-Poland.
2018 | Creative Hands, Arts Council Exhibition, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA, By Invitation.
2018 | Nature Abstracted, California Art and Nature Museum, Solvang CA. Juried Exhibition: Juror Nathan Huff and Stacy Otte-Demangate.
2018 | Night & Day, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA. Annual Tri- County Juried Exhibition: Juror Bob Alderette.
SOLO SHOWS & 3 PERSON SHOWS
2023 | Portals & Pathways, Solo Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles CA.
2022 | Portals & Pathways, Solo Show, Artist in Residence, California Art and Nature Museum, Solvang CA.
2021 | Accession, Gray Space Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Curator Andi Campognone.
2020 | 5 on the Rise, GraySpace Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator Ruth Ellen-Hoag.
2018 | Equipoise an Exploration of Color Light & Nature, Solo Show, Faulkner West Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
2017 | Driven to Abstraction, Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara CA, Curator William Fedderson.
AWARDS
2024 | Honorable Mention, Nip it in the Bud, 2nd Fridays Gallery SBTC, Santa Barbara CA. Juror Veronica Walmsley.
2023 | Jurors Award, Abstract is Everything, AACollective Santa Barbara, Voice Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Juror Jane Callister Professor UCSB.
2020 | Jurors Choice Award, ArtSEE, Annual Art Show, Santa Barbara CA. Juror Mariko Tabar.
2019 | Forrest Doud Award, Brushstrokes, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA. Annual Juried Show.
2019 | Honorable Mention and Body & Soul Award, Body & Soul, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA. Tri-County, Juried Exhibition: Juror Roxanne Sexauer.
2018 | Jurors Award, Abstract Open lV, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
2017 | Jurors Award, AAC Abstract Open II, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Juried Exhibition.
2016 | Honorable Mention, Summer Selections, JCC Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Juried Exhibition.
2016 | Jurors Award, Abstract Open II, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Juried Exhibition.
2016 | Jurors Award, Pathways, Carpinteria Arts Center, CA. Juried Exhibition.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 | Ritual of Spring, BG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA. Curator Susan Lizotte.
2024 | Honoring the Feminine 6000 Circles Project, Range projects Gallery, Los Angeles CA Juror SCWCA.
2024 | Nip it in the Bud, annual show. 2nd Fridays Gallery, SBTC Santa Barbara CA. Juror Veronica Walmsley.
2024 | L.A.Open Show, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles CA. Curator Kristine Schomaker.
2024 | Reputed, LAAA Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA. Juror Peter Mays.
2023 | Aurora LAAA Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA. Curator Andi Camognone MOAH Director.
2023 | 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator Susan Bush, by invitation.
2023 | Beloved Planet, LA Makery Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Betty Ann Brown Art Historian.
2023 | Ready To Hang Annual Show, CommunityArtsWorkshop, Santa Barbara CA. By invitation.
2023 | A Keen Eye, Range Projects Gallery, Los Angeles CA. Curator SCWCA. By invitation.
2023 | Where the Wild Things Grow, Sullivan Goss Gallery X Lotus Land, Santa Barbara CA. Curator Susan Bush, by invitation.
2023 | Tickled Pink, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago Illinois. Curator Veronica Clements. By invitation.
2023 | Ancestral Connections, Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park CA. Curator Chelo Montoyo. By invitation.
2023 | Abstract is Everything, Abstract Art Collective, Voice Gallery, La Cumbre Plaza Santa Barbara CA. Juror Proffesor UCSB Jane Callister.
2023 | After Image, LAAA Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA. Juror Walter Marciel.
2023 | New Works & Nudes, Voice Gallery, La Cumbre Plaza Santa Barbara CA. Juror Kerry Methner.
2023 | Small Images, Atkinson Gallery SBCC, Santa Barbara CA. Juror Debra Herrick, Lum Art.
2023 | Broad Spectrum Western Edge inaugural show, Thomas Reynolds Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator Andi Campognone.
2023 | Glossary, Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. Juror Louis Stern. By invitation.
2022 | 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator Susan Bush. By invitation.
2022 | Open Show, Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. MoCA Curator Rebecca Lowery. By invitation.
2022 | Birdsong, Lotus Land, Santa Barbara CA. Juror Rebecca Anderson. By invitation.
2022 | What’s Next, Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center, Burbank, CA. Juror Erika Ostrander.
2022 | Surrealism Now, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA. Juror Andi Campognone.
2022 | Make Plain, Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. Juror Stephen Swan, John Moran Auctioneers.
2022 | Kaipaipai Exhibition, Melissa Morgan Gallery, Palm Desert, CA. Juror Andi Campognone.
2022 | Nip it in The Bud, 2nd Fridays Gallery, SBTC Santa Barbara CA. Juror Leanne Dollison.
2021 | Art at Miraflores, Santa Barbara Music Academy of the West, Lehman Hall. By Invitation.
2021 | 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curated By Susan Bush. By Invitation.
2021 | Art Is The Cure, Channing Peake Gallery Santa Barbara, Juror’s Anthony Askew & Joyce Wilson.
2021 | Reflection, Korean Culture Center Los Angeles, Juror Sunook Park & Terell Tilford.
2021 | Vagaries, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. By Invitation.
2021 | Chestnut, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. By Invitation.
2021 | Geographics, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. By Invitation.
2021 | User Tells User, LAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. By Invitation.
2021 | Accession, 3 Women Show Gray Space Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Curated by Andi Campognone.
2021 | Apocrypha, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. By Invitation.
2021 | Aquatic, Annual Juried Show, 2nd Fridays Gallery SBTC, Santa Barbara CA. Curated by Juror Susan Bush.
2021 | Sanctuary, Lotus Land Santa Barbara CA. By Invitation.
2021 | Fat City, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. By Invitation.
2021 | Fresh stART, McCall Family Foundation Los Angeles CA. Visual Art Programs. By Invitation.
2021 | Gild, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. Juried by Jordan Roth, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX. By Invitation.
2020 | 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curated by Susan Bush. By Invitation.
2020 | 5 on the Rise, 5 Women Show, GraySpace Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curated by Ruth Ellen-Hoag.
2020 | Non Sequitur, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. Curated by Peter Mays.
2020 | Habitual, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. Curated by Peter Mays.
2020 | ArtSEE, 6th Annual at JCC Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Abstract Arts Collective, Juried show, juror Mariko Tabar.
2020 | Field of Vision, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. Curator Peter Mays.
2020 | Gleaming Apollo, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. Curator Peter Mays.
2020 | Petite Works, LAAA Gallery 825 Los Angeles CA. Curator Peter Mays.
2020 | Abstract Art Collective Annual Show Open to Abstraction, Faulkner West Gallery Santa Barbara, CA. Juror Jeremy Tessmer.
2020 | Works on Paper, 2nd Fridays Gallery, SBTC, Santa Barbara CA. Juror Sui Zimmerman.
2019 | Wit & Whimsy, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Selections from the Michael & Nancy Gifford Collection. Produced by the Santa Barbara Country Arts Commision.
2019 | 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator Susan Bush. By Invitation.
2019 | Fascinations, The AAC at State Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator Hugh Margerum.
2019 | Pulse of LA 2019 SCWCA, South Bay SOLA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles CA. Juror Holly Tempo, Juried Show.
2019 | Brushstrokes, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA. Juried Show Juror Jerry McLaughlin.
2019 | ArtSEE, 5th Annual at JCC Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Abstract Arts Collective, Juried show.
2019 | Metamorphosis, Palm Springs Art Museum Palm Desert, CA. Artists Council Inaugural Exhibition, Jurors Alma Ruiz. Juried Show.
2019 | Abstract Open IV Nature Abstracted, Bettervaria Gallery, Santa Maria CA. Abstract Art Collective. Juror’s Nathan Huff and Stacy Otte-Demangate.
2019 | Unfettered In Honor of Women’s History Month, Avenue 50 Studio Inc, Highland Park CA. All Member Show Sponsored by SCWCA.
2019 | Use The Other Door, Core Contemporary Gallery, Las Vegas NV. Curator’s Nancy Good/ Kim Johnson. Juried Show.
2018 | 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator Susan Bush. By Invitation.
2018 | Creative Hands, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA. Arts Council Exhibition. By Invitation.
2018 | Abstract Open IV , Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Juror Nancy Gifford. Juried Show.
2018 | Nature Abstracted, California Art and Nature Museum, Solvang CA. Juror’s Nathan Huff and Stacy Otte-Demangate. Juried Show.
2018 | Pulse Of LA, SCWCA South Bay SOLA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles CA. Juror Katherine Harvath.
2018 | ArtSEE 4th Annual, at JCC Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Abstract Arts Collective, curator Kerry Methner.
2018 | Hear Our Voices! Avenue 50 Studio Inc, Highland Park CA. Juried Show, curator Kathy Gallegos.
2018 | Night & Day! Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA. Annual Tri- County Juried Show, curator Bob Alderette.
2018 | Lend Your Voice! Arena 1 Gallery Santa Monica CA. Art Speaks! Women’s Caucus For Art National Show. Juror/curator Jill Moniz.
2018 | Stripes, BG Gallery Santa Monica CA. Curator Om Bleicher.
2018 | Bowie, Neutra Museum Gallery Silverlake CA. Juror/curator by Dulce Stein.
2018 | Annual Small Works Auction, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito CA. By Invitation.
2017 | 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Curator Susan Bush. By Invitation.
2017 | Pop Bang Wow! Santa Barbara Arts Fund Gallery CA. Curator James Van Ardale. By Invitation.
2017 | Sizzle Summer Show, Wall Space Gallery Los Angeles CA. Curator Valda Lake. By Invitation.
2017 | Spectrum Gestalt, BG Gallery Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA. Curator Om Bleicher. By invitation.
2017 | That Blitz Mentality, Wall Space Gallery Los Angeles CA. Juror and Curator Valda Lake. By Invitation.
2017 | Driven to Abstraction-3 Woman Show, Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator William Fedderson.
2017 | ArtSEE 4th Annual, at JCC Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Abstract Arts Collective. Juried show, curator Daniel Barnett.
2017 | AAC Abstract Open III, Juried Exhibition. Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara CA, curator/Juror: Lynn M.Holley.
2016 | The Night Opens, BLAM Los Angeles CA. Curator Nadege Monchera Baer. By Invitation.
2016 | City Hall Santa Barbara CA. Mayors Office. Curator Joe LaCorte. By Invitation.
2016 | AAC Abstract Open II, Juried Exhibition. Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Curator/Juror: Nancy Gifford.
2016 | Beyond Living Walls, Casa Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Juried Show, curator by Kerry Methner.
2016 | Fiesta Azul, Casa Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Juried Showur, curator Kerry Methner.
2016 | Going Abstract, Carpinteria Arts Center, CA. Curator Hugh Margerum, by Invitation.
2016 | ArtSEE: 3rd Annual, at JCC Gallery Santa Barbara CA. Abstract Arts Collective. Juried show.
2016 | ArtSEE:International Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. By Invitation curator Jan Zeigler.
2016 | Make Hay While The Sun Shines, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria CA. Juror/Curator Arturo Tello.
2016 | Abstract Open II, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara CA. Juried Show, curator Maiza Hixson.
2016 | Pathways, Carpinteria Arts Center, Carpinteria CA. Juried Show, curator Michael Drury.
2016 | Imaginations, Carpinteria Arts Center, Carpinteria CA. Juried Show, curator Tomas Van Stein.