Mark Stephen Smith

M.F.A. Queens College of the City University of New York

B.F.A. Kansas City Art Institute

Boston University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2023 Craighead Green Gallery, “The Songbook Series: New Paintings”

2021 Craighead Green Gallery, “The Bobbin Series: Large and small format paintings”, Dallas, TX.

2018-19 William Campbell Gallery, “The Signal Series”, Ft. Worth, TX.

2016 Craighead Green Gallery, “The Space Between the Notes: Paintings and work on paper.” Dallas, Tx.

2013 Craighead-Green Gallery, “Western Vistas: New paintings and work on paper”, Dallas, TX.
2012 William Campbell Contemporary Art, “The Earth Below”, Ft. Worth, TX.
2009 Craighead-Green Gallery, “Morning Paintings”, Dallas Texas.

2008 William Campbell Contemporary Art, “In Search of Memory: Paintings in Color” Ft. Worth, Texas.
2006 Craighead-Green Gallery, “The History of Color: Paintings by Mark Smith”, Dallas, Texas.
2004 Cidnee Patrick Gallery, “New Work: Mark Smith”, Dallas, TX.

2003 William Campbell Contemporary Art, “Quantum States: New Paintings”, Ft. Worth, TX.
2001 Edith Baker Gallery, “Cosmos: Recent Paintings on Panel”, Dallas, TX.
2000 William Campbell Gallery, “The History of Color: New

Paintings”, Ft. Worth, TX.
1999 Edith Baker Gallery, “New works on Wood”, Dallas, TX.

1998 William Campbell Gallery, “M.E.S.H: Recent Paintings”, Ft. Worth, TX.
1996 Austin College, “Overview: 2-D Work from 1975-95”,

Sherman, Tx.
1994 Still-Zinsel Contemporary Art, “City of Parts”,

New Orleans, La
1993 Still-Zinsel Contemporary Art, “Mark Smith-Constructions”, New Orleans, LA.

1992 William Campbell Gallery, “Constructions and Works on Paper”, Ft. Worth, TX.
1991 Texas Christian University, “Recent Works by Mark Smith”, Ft. Worth, TX.

1990 William Campbell Gallery, “Architectural Nuance”, Ft.Worth,TX.
1988 Kimbell Museum of Art, “The Artist Eye”, Ft. Worth, TX. 1986 Prince Street Gallery, “View from Below: Recent Paintings by Mark S. Smith”, New York, New York.

1979 Grace Borgnicht Gallery, “Mark Smith: New Work”, New York, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2023, Meadows Gallery, Greater Denton Arts Center, “63x93: Generations in Conversation”, Denton, Tx.

2023, South Side Gallery, “Turkiye Earthquake Relief Benefit Exhibition 23”, Ft. Worth, Tx.

2020, Craighead-Green Gallery, “Annual Group Show”, Dallas, TX.

2019, William Campbell Gallery, “Annual Ft. Worth Cultural District Art Walk”, Ft. Worth, TX.

2017-18, “A Celebration of Color”, Bath House Cultural Center, Department of Cultural Affairs, Dallas, Tx.

2016-17, Annual Group Exhibition, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX.

2015 “40 years at the William Campbell Gallery”, FT. Worth, TX.

2013 Miami Art Fair, Miami, Florida

2013 The Moncrief inaugural Collection, U.T. Southwestern, Ft. Worth, TX.

2012 Dallas Art Fair IV, Dallas, Texas

2011 Toyota Museum of Art, “Art on paper: 5th. International Exhibition”, Nagoya, Japan.

2010 Art Santa Fe, International Contemporary Art Fair, Santa Fe, NM.

2009 Meadows Gallery, “Couples Who Create”, Visual Arts Center of Texas, Denton, TX.

2009 Fashion Industry Gallery, “Inaugural Dallas Art Fair”, Dallas, TX.

2009 Craighead-Green Gallery, “Conversion: New Work by Gallery Artists”’ Dallas, TX.

2008 “Field of Color: Seven Contemporary Artists”, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.

2008 “All Inclusive: New Work from the Craighead-Green

Gallery”, Dallas, TX.
2004 “Abstract Concepts”, Texas Commission of the Arts,

Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tx.

2004 “30th Anniversary Exhibition”, William Campbell Gallery Ft.Worth, TX.
2003 Meadows Gallery, “Selected Work from the Cidnee Patrick Gallery”, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX.

2002 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, “Farewell Fiesta”,

Ft Worth, TX.
2001 Forum Gallery Center for the Arts, “Mark Monroe, Nancy Neergaard, Mark Smith, Tim Tracz”, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Tx.

2001 “The Pegasus Project”, Public Art Program Dallas, Tx.

2001 The Art Center of Waco, “Made in Texas”, Waco, Texas

2000 Amarillo Museum of Art, “Texart 2000: Mid-career Texas Painters”, Amarillo, Tx.

2000 William Campbell Gallery, “Summer Pleasures”’ Fort Worth, Tx.

1999 Edith Baker Gallery, “Masquerade: Fin e Siècle”, Dallas, TX.
1999 Arlington Museum of Art, “Redhot: Texas Artists” Arlington,Tx.*

1999 Edith Baker Gallery, “A Cool Summer Garden”, Dallas, TX.

1999 500x Gallery, “20X500: Views from a Dallas Warehouse”, Dallas, Tx. (traveling to the Waco Art Center, Waco, Tx. and Richland College, Dallas, Tx.) *

1998 Edith Baker Gallery, “Self-Portraits: Up Close”, Dallas, Tx.

1998 The Meadows Gallery, “Artists Who Teach”, Greater Denton Arts Center, Denton. Tx.

1998 Arlington Museum of Art, Act Natural”, Arlington, TX.

1997 Contemporary Art Center, “Mirror Mirror”’, Ft. Worth, Texas.

1998 William Campbell Gallery, “Healing Wings”, Ft. Worth, Tx

1998 Edith Baker Gallery, “20th. Anniversary”, Dallas, TX.

1996 Edith Baker Gallery, “Hope”, Dallas, Tx. –

1996 Arlington Museum of Art, “Notions of Nostalgia”,

Arlington, TX.
1995 M.A.C. (McKinney Avenue Contemporary), “Exquisite Corpse”, Dallas, Tx.
1993 Galveston Arts Center, “Gimme Shelter: Works and

Installations by Mel Chin, Edward Kienholz and Mark

Smith”, Galveston, Tx.
1992 Museums of Abilene, “Towers for the Eyes: Donald

Kenney, Jack Williams and Mark Smith”, Abilene, Tx.

1992 Arlington Museum of Art, “Made in Texas”, Arlington Tx. *

1991 Laguna Gloria Museum, “House: with works by Joe

Havel, Mark Smith, James Surls and Charles Moore”, Austin, Tx *.

1990 Still-Zinsel Gallery, “The Summer Show”, New Orleans, La.

1990 Arlington Museum of Art, “Woodwork: the inaugural

exhibition of the Arlington Museum”, Arlington, TX. *

1989 Trammell Crow Center, “It’s About Time”, Dallas, TX.

1989 University of Texas at Dallas, “Ad Infinitum”
1988 Hickory Street Annex, “Artists at the Annex”, Dallas, TX.

1989 William Campbell Gallery, “Toys Designed by Artists”, Ft, Worth, Tx.
1989 Plaza of the Americas, “Texas Sculpture 89’ “
Dallas, TX.

1987 Cityplace Center, “CityLife”, Main Gallery, Dallas, Tx. Trammell Crow Center, “Zoomorphism: Animals in Art”, Dallas, TX.
1987 Edith Baker Gallery, “Totems”, Dallas, TX.

1987 Ida Green Gallery, “New Works by Joe Havel and Mark Smith Tim Austin College, Sherman, TX.

1987 Washington Square Gallery of N.Y.U.,  “Small Works”, New York, New York.

1986 Galveston Arts Center, “Exhibition Series for Emerging Artists: Mark Smith and Bill Haveron”, Galveston, Tx. *

Two Houston Center Gallery, “Texas Art Celebration 87’ “, Houston, TX. *.

1985 500X Gallery, “10 Years of 500X”, Dallas, TX.

SELECTED PUBLIC, INSTITUTIONAL and CORPORATE COLLECTIONS  

Austin Public Library
Austin College Permanent Collection
Broude, Nelson & Harrington Inc., Texas
Boston University
Boston’s Restaurant Group
Citicorp Collection
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Collection of Robert Butler and Sonny Burt
College of Business, University of North Texas
Cook Children’s Hospital
Denton Public Library
Dynanco Corporation
City of Los Angeles
City of Denton, Texas, Permanent Collection
Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland and Chicago
Four Seasons Hotels
Graham Greene and Associates
Grover Herman Fine Arts Center
Grinnell College

G. Brint Ryan College of Business, University of North Texas

Hendrick Motor Sports, Texas
Consulate of India, London
IBM collection
Nokia
KERA TV (NPR), Dallas
Korman Media Enterprises
Neiman-Marcus Inc. (Florida/California/Texas.)

Nordstrom Collection
Nokia Corporation Collection, Europe/U.S.
Marshall Collection
Moncrief Cancer Institute
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston.

Pizza Hut Corporation
Plastic Surgery Associates of Texas (Dallas/Houston/San Antonio) Resort Hotels International

Ritz-Carlton Hotels
Rivercrest Country Club Ft.Worth,TX.
Rosewood Hotels
Tandy Corporation Collection
Texas Instruments
Tanglewood Foundation, Boston University
Texas Woman’s University Health Science Center, Houston Tx.

Tulane University
University of North Texas

Voertmans Collection
Sony Music
Safeco Insurance Collection

Visiting Artist and lecturer:

University of Texas, Austin
University of North Texas

Arlington Art Museum
Austin College
Barnwell Art Center Museum, Louisiana

Boston University

University of North Carolina

Kimbell Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art

Galveston Arts Center

Grinnell College
Art Museum of South Texas

Miami University

Southern Methodist University
Texas Christian University
Arkansas Art Museum
University of Arkansas
Meadows Museum of Art
Greater Denton Arts Council
University of North Texas
University of Texas at Arlington
The City University of New York
Texas Women’s University
University of California, Irvine
State University of New York at Stony Brook

Academic affiliation:

Craig Professor of the Arts Emeritus, Chair of the Department of Art and Art       History, Austin College, Sherman, TX.

-Associate Professor and Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Miami University. Oxford, Ohio

-Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Texas Woman’s University Art Gallery Programs, Denton, Houston and Dallas Campus.

Community Service:

Board Member, Greater Denton Arts Council

Denton Independent School District and Denton Public School Foundation:

     “The Mark and Barbara Smith Endowment for the Fine Arts”

Independent Exhibition Curator, Texas public and private schools of higher      

education, 1983- current