JOHN SMITH
Selected Works
Video
Press
- Art Monthly, Deke Dusinberre, 2020(pdf)
- Mousse Magazine, 2017(pdf)
- Tate, 2015(pdf)
- Cinema Scope, 2014(pdf)
- Artforum, 2012(pdf)
- Art Monthly, 2012(pdf)
- Sight and Sound, 2011(pdf)
- Frieze, 2010(pdf)
- Kaleidoscope, 2010(pdf)
- Senses of Cinema, 2003(pdf)
| Born 1952 in Walthamstow, London, lives and works in London | |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | John Smith: The Girl Chewing Gum, Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia |
| 2017 | Film in Sheep’s Clothing, Alma Zevi, Venice, Italy |
| John Smith: Dad’s Stick, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany | |
| The Man Girl Phoning Chewing Mum Gum, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2016 | The Girl Chewing Gum, LOOK Gallery, Budapest, Hungary |
| John Smith, Kate MacGarry, London, UK | |
| John Smith: Hotel Diaries, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK | |
| Sign Language, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2015 | John Smith: Is it True, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany |
| Synchronicity: John Smith, Vita Kuben, Umea, Sweden | |
| Frames: John Smith, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg Unlimited: John Smith, Freiburg, Germany | |
| The Girl Chewing Gum, Hauberk Foundation, Berlin, Germany | |
| Dad’s Stick, Suburban PS, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2014 | White Hole, Tyneside Cinema Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
| Le Baiser, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec, Paris, France | |
| The Black Tower, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| The Girl Chewing Gum, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK | |
| John Smith, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University, Australia | |
| 2013 | Associations, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne |
| The Girl Chewing Gum, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| Object Lessons,, Tanya Leighton, Berlin | |
| 2012 | The Black Tower, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK |
| Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian), Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK | |
| The Girl Chewing Gum, Le Bal, Paris, France | |
| Bildstörung, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany | |
| Slow Glass, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany | |
| Hotel Diaries, Grand Hotel Atlantic, Bremen, Germany | |
| Worst Case Scenario, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany | |
| 2011 | John Smith: Short Films, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden |
| unusual Red cardigan, PEER, London, UK | |
| Art Feature: John Smith, Art Basel | |
| John Smith, Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France | |
| The Girl Chewing Gum, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA | |
| The World Seems A long Way Away, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Republic of Ireland | |
| Lost Sound, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mossouri, USA | |
| 2010 | Accident, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany |
| The Offset, Aside, But (Part 4), Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany | |
| Flag Mountain / Black Tower, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany | |
| Worst Case Scenario, Gallery 210, St. Louis, Missouri, USA | |
| John Smith: Solo Show, Royal College of Art Galleries, London | |
| I’m Lying, I Promise, Sala Diaz Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A | |
| 2006 | John Smith – Selected Films and Videos, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK |
| Hotel Diaries – Video Diaries by John Smith, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, Ireland | |
| 2005 | John Smith: London and Other Worlds, Kunstmuseum Magdeberg, Germany |
| 2004 | The Black Tower, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK |
| The Kiss, AVA Gallery, University of East London, UK | |
| 2003 | Black and White Lies, Open Eye, Liverpool, UK |
| John Smith, Pearl Gallery, London, UK | |
| The Girl Chewing Gum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK | |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | Migrating Worlds: the Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Face it! Im Selbstgespräch mit dem Anderen, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany | |
| The Annotated Reader (a project by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts), The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | |
| As Seen on Screen: Art and Cinema, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool | |
| Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK | |
| Double Takes: Historic and Contemporary Film and Video, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA | |
| As seen on Screen: Art and Cinema, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK | |
| Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK | |
| Kate MacGarry at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland | |
| City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France | |
| The Annotated Reader, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| Face it! Im Im Selbstgespräch mit dem Anderen, Kunstmuseum, Ravensburg, Germany | |
| The Smiths, Marlborough Gallery, London, UK | |
| Migrating Worlds: the Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA | |
| 2018 | Otras Luces, Festival of Moving Images, Pamplona, Spain |
| The Annotated Reader, (a project by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P Watts), Cork Street Galleries, London, UK |
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| Hunter of Worlds, Curated by Elise Lammer, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Nothing Will Be As Before: Ten Years of Tanya Leighton, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany | |
| Somewhere in Between, Bozar Arts Centre, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK | |
| Film London Jarman Award: A Journey Through the First Decade, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK | |
| Kapwani Kiwanga: a wall is just a wall (and nothing more at all), Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada | |
| Case Tomada, San Pedro de los Pinos, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Journeys with The Waste Land, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England | |
| Marcia Farquhar – DIFFIKUAT, CGP Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2017 | Fifteen, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London, UK | |
| Legacies: JMW Turner and Contemporary Art Practice, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK | |
| The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| The Opposing Shore, 7th Moscow Biennial for Contemporary Art, CCI Fabric, Moscow, Russia | |
| The Laughable Enigma of the Ordinary, ARQUIPÉLAGO Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Azores, Portugal | |
| Who are You? That’s You!, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Sammlung Pronghorn, Heidelberg, Germany | |
| Poetic and Political, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA | |
| The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography, FOMU Museum of Photography, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| After the Fact: Propaganda in the 21st Century, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany | |
| Offshore: Artists Explore the Sea, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK | |
| ArtBAB, International Art Fair, Bahrain | |
| Make Truth Great Again, Jousse Entreprise Gallery, Paris, France | |
| You Are Here, West, The Hague, Netherlands | |
| Strangelove, International Time Based Arts Festival Folkestone, UK | |
| Tilting at Windmills, ROBERTA, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK | |
| New and recent acquisitions from the Grundy Collection, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK | |
| Kunstler Messe Dresden, Dresden, Germany | |
| Capri by Night, Schauspiel, Cologne, Germany | |
| The Big Picture Show: Performing for the Camera, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland | |
| 2016 | Historicode: Scarcity and Supply, Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016 |
| The Scientific Method, The Tetley, Leeds, UK | |
| LonDADA Festival of Dadaism, Cinema Museum, London, UK | |
| Found, The Foundling Museum, London | |
| Double Act: Art and Comedy, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast | |
| Shoot Shoot Shoot: The London Film-Maker Co-operative 1966-1976, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| Why is it Always December?, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown Accidental Encounters, Wimbledon Space, London Time after Time, Momentum, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2015 | Essex Road II, TINTYPE Gallery, London, UK |
| Obsolescence – or the post nostalgic use of journalistic imagery, RCA Dyson Gallery, London, UK | |
| Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin | |
| Reading TV, Svarta Hålet, Stockholm The Fall, Rodeo, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| The Fall, Rodeo, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| The Short Form, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada | |
| Akakor Galeria Baro, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Ground: Paul Housley and John Smith, Attic, Nottingham, UK | |
| Idiot Box, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK | |
| Sunday in the Park with Ed, Display gallery, London, UK | |
| Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK | |
| Theatres, International Arts Festival, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia | |
| The Presence of Absence, Berlin Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2014 | Love Among the Artists: A Project by Laure Provost, Walden Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands |
| Indeterminacy, Large Glass Gallery, London, UK | |
| 37 Pieces of Flair, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK | |
| The Reluctant Narrator, Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon | |
| Key Frames: Contemporary Artists’ Animations, Neuberg Museum of Art, New York, USA | |
| Interior, Modern Art, London, UK | |
| Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK | |
| The Surface of the World, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines | |
| Test Run, Modern Art, Oxford, UK | |
| Oh, My Complex: On Unease at Beholding the City, Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia | |
| Invocable Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona | |
| 7 Raumthesen, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Le Corbeau et le Renard: Revolt of Language with Marcel Broodthaers, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland | |
| For as Long as You Like, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France | |
| Words as Doors: In Language, Art, Film, Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria | |
| Echte Gefühle: Denken im Film, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | |
| Real Emotions: Thinking in Film, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | |
| Tribute to an Avenue, Sculpture International, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2013 | Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA |
| New Humans, Bureau, New York, USA | |
| Sound Versus System, Kunsthall Oslo, Norway | |
| Detached Activists – Engaged Observers, Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris, France | |
| Bonjour tristesse, désir, ennui, appétit, plaisir, La Galerie, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec, France | |
| It’s a Beautiful World, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, UK | |
| Estuary, Museum of London Docklands | |
| DLA Piper: Constellations, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK | |
| Shortcuts and Disgressions, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK | |
| Protest, Corn Exchange, Newbury, UK | |
| None the Wiser, Hessel Museum of Art, New York | |
| Six Memos for the Next…, Magazine 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria | |
| Großzügige Sachzuwendung, Dorothea Schleuder Gallery, Hamburg, Germany | |
| Tape-Salad: Record, Rewind, Play, Stop, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany | |
| The Glass Show, Jonathan Viner, London, UK | |
| How to Tell a Story, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| 2012 | Desire Lines, Espai, Barcelona, Spain |
| The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art, RCA Galleries, London, UK | |
| Screen / Play, Guyancourt Exhibiton Hall, France | |
| PVM2130, Furnished Art Fair, London, UK | |
| Frieze Film, Frieze Art Fair, London | |
| Chekhov’s Gun, g39, Cardiff, Wales, UK | |
| Dawn Chorus: New acquisitions for the Arts Council Collection, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK | |
| Steinberg, Saul. The New Yorker. New York, 1945-2000, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, Kent, UK | |
| People on Sunday, IBID, London, UK | |
| Peculiar Form of Fiction, Site Gallery and S1 Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany | |
| Oh My Complex: On Unease at Beholding the City, Württembergische, Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal | |
| As Slow as Possible, AV Festival, Sunderland, UK | |
| Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco | |
| Descriptive Acts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |
| Time Capsules, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, USA | |
| 2011 | Two Thousand Eleven, Hong Kong, China |
| Lightwriting, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield, UK | |
| Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices, Selections from Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, U.S.A | |
| According to Foreign Sources, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel | |
| Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Republic of Ireland | |
| John Smith with John Berger, Black Audio Film Collective, Peter Watkins, GB Agency, Paris, France | |
| Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid | |
| The Talent Show, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, USA | |
| Margins: Walking Between Worlds, Art Exchange, Colchester, UK | |
| The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Dark, CoExist Galleries, Southend, England Backstage Riders, Tagesspiegelgebäude, Berlin, Germany | |
| Backstage Riders, Tagesspiegelgebäude, Berlin, Germany | |
| Genius Without Talent, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, USA | |
| A Form Is Simply Something Which Allows Something Else To Be Transported From One Site To Another, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Has the Film Already Started? Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| Feature, Art 42 Basel, Switzerland | |
| Neighbo(u)rhood, Mattres Factory, Pittsburg The Talent Show, MoMa PS1, New York, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA | |
| The Talent Show, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA | |
| Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London, UK | |
| The Pdestrians, South London Gallery, London, UK | |
| Serious Games: War – Media – Art, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt | |
| Animal Kingdom – there was an old lady who…, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, Germany | |
| Independant Art Fair, New York, U.S.A / Un Nouveau Festival, Aether Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Un Nouveau Festival / Aether, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Elastic Frames, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK | |
| The Talent Show, MoMA PS1, New York, USA | |
| 2010 | Atlas: Truths, Details, Intervals and the Afterlives of the Image, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland |
| lightwriting, Banner Repeater, Hackney Downs Railway Station, London, UK | |
| Alternatives to Memories, Gallerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France | |
| AS SO CI ATIONS, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK | |
| A Million and One Days, International Exhibition of Film & Video Art Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania |
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| light writing, Window Gallery, Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, UK | |
| I Must Say That At First It Was Difficult Work, Kunsthall Oslo, Norway | |
| TBA Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon, USA | |
| 6th Berlin Biennial, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | |
| Session 8 – Video, Am Nuden Da, London Mulberry Tree Press, SE8 Gallery, London, UK | |
| Mulberry Tree Press, SE8 Gallery, London, UK | |
| Nothing is in the Place, Photo Month, Krakow, Poland | |
| The Talent Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA | |
| What If, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London, UK | |
| Atlas: Truths, Details, Intervals and the Afterlives of the Image, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva | |
| A Million and One Days, Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius | |
| After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland | |
| Work Force, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, | |
| The Armoury Show – Focus: Berlin, New York, USA | |
| A Very, Very Long Cat, Wallspace Gallery, New York Associations, Arcade Gallery, London, UK | |
| Associations, Arcade Gallery, London, UK | |
| La Otra, Contemporary Art Fair, Bogota, Columbia | |
| Z33 Art Centre, Hasselt, Belgium | |
| 2009 | Beneath the Surface/Hidden Place, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, UK |
| Der Schnitt durch die Oberfläche legt neue Oberflächen frei (The cut through the surfaces reveals new surfaces) – curated by Max Mayer and Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Temporary Gallery, Cologne Summer Show (curated by Richard Wilson), Royal Academy, London, UK | |
| Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK | |
| Highlights from the Cologne Kunst Film Biennale in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin, Germany | |
| Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK | |
| 2008 | Smoke, Pump House Gallery, London, UK |
| Hotel MariaKapel, A Portrait by Katie Jane, Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn, Netherlands | |
| September Show, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany | |
| Xcentric, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain | |
| Travels, The Tate Triennal Prologue, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| ICO Essentials: The Secret Masterpieces of Cinema, Touring program launched at Tate Modern, London, UK | |
| Displaced Sounds, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven, Belgium | |
| Rooftop Cinema, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, USA | |
| Real Fiction, Ausstellungshalle, Munich, Germany | |
| 2007 | Persona Non Grata, One in the Other Gallery, London, UK |
| In the poem about love you don’t write the word love, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Pathogeographies (Or Other People’s Baggage), Gallery 400, Chicago, USA | |
| Autonomous Series, Campbell Works, London, UK | |
| Histoire d’en Rire, Documentaire sur Grand Ecran, Paris, France | |
| Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy | |
| 2006 | A noir, E Blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu – Farben, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany |
| A Step in the Right Direction, Gallery Holtegaard, Copenhagen, Denmark, | |
| In the poem about love you don’t write the word love, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 2005, Artists’ Space, New York, 2006, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis | |
| Luz Y Tiempo: Cine Experimental Y Videoarte Britanico, La Enana Marron, Madrid Public Utilities, South London Gallery, London, UK | |
| The Atlas Group (1990-2004). A Project by Walid Raad, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin | |
| I Love Art Viedo, Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France | |
| Smoke and Mirrors, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK | |
| A Cinema of Physics and Perception, Block Museum of Art, Chicago, USA | |
| Transvision, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK | |
| A Step in the Right Direction, Gallery Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark | |
| 2005 | Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London, UK |
| Cine y Casi Cine, Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | |
| In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK, ARGOS and Musée du Cinéma, Brussels (traveled to: Artists Space, New York, Midway Contemporary Arts, OVEREATEN-Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark) | |
| Microwave, International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, China | |
| Home Made, 291 Gallery, London, UK | |
| National Gallery, London, UK | |
| So Klappt’s, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Time: Base: Behaviour, Boley Gallery, Kansas City, USA | |
| 2004 | Exposure, Candid Arts, London, UK |
| Art Toung, Saint Martin le Vinoux, France | |
| Moving Image, ICA, London Across Borders: Documentary, Diaspora and the Moving Image, Tate Modern, London, UK | |
| A Century of Artists’ Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA | |
| Regarder, Observer, Surveiller, Sequence Gallery – Arts Visuels et Mêdiatiques, Quebec, Canada | |
| 2003 | Black and White Lies, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
| Changing Times, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| Maths in Motion, Kunstlerhauskino, Vienna, Austria | |
| International Biennial of Photography, Turin | |
| 2001 | Solid State: Reflections upon the Real, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK |
| Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2000, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon | |
| 1999 | Modern Times, Hasselblad Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 1986 | Modern Art – It’s a Joke, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough, UK |
| Whitechapel Open, London | |
| 1984-85 | The British Art Show, City Art Gallery, Birmingham, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, Southampton Art Gallery, UK |
| SELECTED FILM FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVES AND SOLO SCREENINGS | |
| 2019 | John Smith, International Short Film Biennale, Vicenza, Italy |
| ‘This Is Not This Heat’: A soundtrack to the art films of John Smith, CPH:DOX International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| John Smith, Guardian Masterclass: A weekend development lab with award-winning documentary makers, Senate House, University of London, UK | |
| Five Weekends of Moving Image Exploring Transformation, John Smith Programmed by Keren Cytter, Cinema Hamlet, Zurich Switzerland | |
| On The Streets Where We Live: John Smith, Leytonstone Loves Film Festival, London, UK | |
| Real Fiction: Artists talk and short films by John Smith, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy | |
| 2018 | John Smith: Films, Monoquini, Bordeaux, France |
| Make Haste, Slowly, Goethe Institute, Dublin, Ireland | |
| OM: John Smith Retrospective (part two), Film i Samtidskonsten, Zita Folkets Bio, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Lifting Traces: Memories of London, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA | |
| Screening and Talk with John Smith, Visual Artists Ireland International Speakers Series, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, Ireland | |
| Nuit Blanche: John Smith, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France | |
| Hotel Diaries, The Garden of Dystopian Pleasures, School of Fine Art Performance Festival, Athens, Greece | |
| John Smith, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy | |
| OM: John Smith Retrospective (part one), Film i Samtidskonsten, Biograf Reflexen, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| ‘Visite’ Film Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels / Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| Courts-métrages de John Smith, Videodrome Cinema, Marseille, France | |
| John Smith: Give Chance a Chance, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| 2017 | X-Ray: John Smith, KASK Cinema, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1st Annual Louis le Prince Lecture: John Smith, Northern Film School/Leeds International Film Festival Leeds Art Gallery, UK | |
| Opening Night, Black Tower Projects, London, UK | |
| John Smith: Give Chance a Chance, Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK | |
| John Smith: Lost in Leytonstone, Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK | |
| Retro: John Smith, ‘DokuFest’ International Film Festival, Prizren, Kosovo | |
| A Cinematic Evening with John Smith, Mirth, Marvel and Maud, London, UK | |
| John Smith, International Festival of Film and Urbanism ’86’, Slavutych, Ukraine | |
| This is Not This Heat, Barbican Hall, London, UK | |
| Real Fiction, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2016 | Fragment d’une oeuvre: John Smith, ‘États généraux du film documentaire’, Lussas, France |
| Sort of What?, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany | |
| Kihlberg & Henry: Footnotes to Long Distance Telephone Call, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK | |
| John Smith: Shorts, International Festival of Projections, University of Kent, UK | |
| Co-op Dialogues 1966-2016: John Smith and Laure Prouvost, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| It is what it is, but what is it?, University of Wolverhampton, UK | |
| 2015 | Associations: Homage John Smith, ‘DOK Leipzig’ International Documentary and Animation Festival, Germany |
| Focus on John Smith , Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania | |
| In Focus: John Smith – British Avant Garde Cinema, ‘Underdox’ International Film Festival, Munich Film Museum, Germany | |
| Retrospective: John Smith, ‘Stuttgart Filmwinter’ Festival for Expanded Media, Germany | |
| 2014 | John Smith: art(making) diaries, ‘Pravo Ljudski’ Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina |
| Conversations at the Edge: John Smith, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, USA | |
| John Smith in Person, Block Museum, Chicago, USA | |
| Focus John Smith, Nova Cinema, Brussels, Belgium | |
| John Smith, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Filmmakers’ Co-op: John Smith in Focus, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2013 | John Smith, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain |
| John Smith: Early Shorts, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway | |
| Urban Wandering: John Smith’s London, Barbican Cinema, London, England | |
| John Smith: Early Shorts, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland | |
| 2012 | John Smith: Associations and Ambiguities, Filmforum at Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, USA |
| Alternative Visions: The Films of John Smith, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA | |
| John Smith Retrospective, ‘Message to Man’ International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia | |
| John Smith, Animer le Quotidien, Le Bal, Paris, France | |
| The Dream That Kicks: John Smith – Early Short Films, Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo, Norway | |
| John Smith, ‘Ambulante’ International Film Festival, Guadalajara, Mexico | |
| 2011 | The Chrysler Series: John Smith, Chrysler Building, New York, USA |
| 2010 | Associations: The Short Films of John Smith, Rooftop Cinema, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, USA |
| John Smith, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA | |
| 2009 | John Smith: Hotel Diaries, Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea |
| 2008 | Travels: John Smith’s Hotel Diaries, Tate Triennial Prologue, Tate Britain, London, England |
| 2007 | John Smith, Kino 46, Bremen, Germany |
| John Smith: Selected Works, Argos Cinema, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2006 | Mein Kino: John Smith, Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany |
| 2005 | Filmmaker Focus: John Smith, ‘Brief Encounters’ International Short Film Festival, Bristol, England |
| 2004 | Surprise, Engage and Delight – The Films of John Smith, Winterthur International Short Film Festival, Switzerland |
| 2003 | John Smith Retrospective, Tampere International Film Festival, Finland |
| 2002 | Homage: John Smith, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany |
| John Smith in Retrospective, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden | |
| 2001 | Focus on John Smith, Cork International Film Festival, Ireland |
| SELECTED AWARDS | |
| 2013 | Jarman Award, Film London |
| Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director, Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival, Pamplona | |
| ARTE Prize for European Short Film, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival | |
| Jury Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival | |
| Best Short Film (ex aequo), Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival | |
| 2011 | Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists |
| 2010 | ARTE Prize for European Short Film, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival |
| 2008 | Best Short Documentary, Chicago Underground Film Festival |
| 2007 | Grand Prix, International Festival of New Film, Split |
| Grand Prix (ex aequo), Lucca Film Festival | |
| 2005 | Best International Short Film, Cork Film Festival |
| Prix du Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva | |
| 2004 | Best Experimental Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival |
| 2000 | Prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen |
| 1998 | Best Short Film, Hamburg International Short Film Festival |
| 1997 | Best European Short Film, Cork International Film Festival |
| Golden Dove for Best Short Documentary, Leipzig International Documentary and Animation Festival | |
| Gold Plaque for Best Experimental Film, Chicago International Film Festival | |
| Prix Regional, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival | |
| Special Critics Award, International Biennale of Film and Architecture, Graz | |
| Film Jackdaw for Best Experimental Film, Uppsala International Short Film Festival | |
| Audience Prize, Bangkok Experimental Film Festival | |
| 1963 | First Prize for Junior Art, Brooke Bond Tea National Educational Awards |
| MONOGRAPHS AND SELECTED CATALOGUES | |
| 2013 | John Smith, Mousse Publishing and Sternberg Press. Monograph with essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer and Ethan de Seife. |
| 2012 | John Smith: Film and Video Works 1972-2002, Picture This Moving Image and Watershed Media Centre. Monograph with essays by Ian Bourn, Nicky Hamlyn, Cornelia Parker and A L Rees and an interview by Cate Elwes. |
| 2014 | John Smith: Le Baiser, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec. Exhibition catalogue. |
| John Smith, Sidney Cooper Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. | |
| 2010 | John Smith: Solo Show, Royal College of Art. Exhibition catalogue. |
Exhibitions
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