Philip Smith’s work first appeared in the prescient PICTURES exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp. He has participated in the Whitney and Beijing Biennials. Smith’s work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Allen Museum of Oberlin College, among many others.

Public Art Commissions

·      Embassair Air Terminal, Miami, Fl

·      Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Miami, Fl

Public Collections / Public Art Commissions

·       Whitney Museum of American Art

·       Boston Museum of Fine Arts

·       Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

·       Detroit Institute of Art

·       Moderna Museet, Sweden

·       Dallas Museum of Art

·       Houston Museum of Fine Art

·       Perez Art Museum, Miami, Fl

·       Museum of Contemporary Art, Milwaukee

·       Allen Museum, Oberlin, Ohio

·       Harn Museum of Art

·       Bard College Center

·       Norton Gallery of Art

·       Bass Art Museum, Miami, Fl

·       Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Fl

·       Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute

·       Addison Gallery

·       Morgan Stanley

·       Siemens Kultur Stiftung

·       Chase Manhattan Bank

·       New York Public Library

·       Soho House

·       Grey Art Gallery, NYT

Selected Solo Exhibitions  

2025

·       Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Philip Smith: Magnetic Fields

2023

·       Carling Dalenson, Philip Smith, Stockholm, Sweden

2022

·       Primary Gallery, Night Sky, Miami, Florida

2015

·       ACA Gallery, Photographs into Paintings, Munich, Germany

2013

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Philip Smith: Sign Language, New York, NY                                       

2008

·       Rosenbaum Contemporary, Philip Smith, Boca Raton, FL

2002 

·       Museum of Modern Art, Philip Smith, Passau, Germany 

2001 

·       Baldwin Gallery, The White Paintings, Aspen, CO

·       Kevin Bruk Gallery, Philip Smith, Miami, FL

·       American Contemporary Art, Young Art From New York, Munich, Germany         

2000 

·       American Contemporary Art, Philip Smith, Munich, Germany

1999 

·       David Klein Gallery, Philip Smith, Detroit, Michigan

1998 

·       Baldwin Gallery, Philip Smith, Aspen, CO

·       Danese Gallery, Philip Smith Paintings, New York, NY

·       ACA Munich, New Paintings, Munich, Germany

1995 

·       ACA Munich, Recent Paintings, Munich, Germany

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Recent Paintings, New York, NY          

1994 

·       Beth Urdang, Recent Paintings, Boston, Massachusetts

1993 

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Recent Paintings, New York, NY

1992 

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Philip Smith: Recent Paintings, New York, NY

·       Center For the Fine Arts, Philip Smith, Miami FL

1991 

·       Barbara Gillman Gallery, Philip Smith: New Paintings, Miami FL

1990 

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Philip Smith, New York, NY

1988 

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Philip Smith, New York, NY

1985 

·       Art Palace, Philip Smith: New Paintings, New York, NY

1983 

·       Gabriele Bryers Gallery, Philip Smith, New York, NY

1982 

·       Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Philip Smith, New York, NY

1979 

·       Miami Dade Community College, South Campus Gallery, Philip Smith, Miami FL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

·       Primary Gallery, Blank Space

2022

·      New Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2021

·      Ross Bleckner + Philip Smith PICTURES, Petzel Gallery, NYC

2018

·       Barbara Bloom/Pictures Generation, Allen Museum, Oberlin, Ohio

2017

·       99 Cents or Less, Curated by Jens Hoffmann at MOCA Detroit

2016

·       Daniel Buchholz Gallery, “Pictures, Before and After-An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp” Organized with Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel, New York

2015

·       Unorthodox, Jewish Museum, New York, NY

2014

·       Daniel Buchholz Gallery, “Pictures, Before and After-An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp” Organized with Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel, Berlin, Germany

·       Boston Museum of Fine Arts, “Experiments in Animation,” Boston Mass

·       10th Annual BAM Auction, Brooklyn, NY

·       Faberge Big Egg Hunt, New York NY

·       Locust Projects, “Smash and Grab” Miami, Fl

2012

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, "PAPER BAND", curated by Stephanie Buhmann, New York, NY

·       Leila Heller Gallery, Young Collectors, New York, NY

2005 

·       Beijing International Arts Biennale, Beijing, China

2003 

·       Feigen Contemporary, OnLine, New York, NY

2002

·       The Drawing Center, 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, New York, NY

·       Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture, curated by Richard Marshall, New York, NY

2001

·       Artists Space, Pictures, New York, NY

2000

·       Danese Gallery, Reconfiguration, New York, NY

1998

·       Danese Gallery, Drawings, New York, NY

1996

·       Harn Museum, From the Permanent Collection, Gainesville, FL

·       ACA Munch, Group Show, Munich, Germany

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Works on Paper, New York, NY

1994

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Summer Group Show, New York, NY

·       Barney’s, Red Windows, New York, NY

·       Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s Kids for Kids, curated by Jennifer Bartlett

·       Art Against Aids Japan, curated by Richard Marshall, Tokyo, Japan

·       Yokohama, Japan; Sogetsu Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan; Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

·       Edobori Gallery, Contemporary Artists in New York, Osaka, Japan

1993

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, New Works, New York, NY

·       The Drawing Center, The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, New York, NY.

·       Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Fundacion para el Arte

·       Conteporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis MO

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Summer Group Show, New York, NY

·       Jaffe Baker Gallery, Three from New York, Boca Raton, Fl

1991

·       Jason McCoy, Gallery Faces, New York, NY

·       Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial, New York, NY

·       Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Black & White, Buffalo, NY

·       Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, Figuring Abstraction, New York, NY

·       Hill Gallery, Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Birmingham, MI

·       Albright-Knox, Members Gallery, New York Collection 1991-92, Buffalo, NY

·       Janice Charach Epstein Musuem Gallery, The Art of Collecting, West Bloomfield, MI

·       Pace Gallery, BAM Art Sale, New York, NY

1990

·       The Artists Museum, Construction in Progress, Back in Lodz, 1990, organized by Ryszard Wasko, Lodz, Poland

1989

·       Jason McCoy Gallery, Group Exhibition, New York, NY

·       Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, Whatever It Is: Beckman, DiPalma, Mosset, Rios, Schuyff, Smith, New York, NY

1988

·       Schreiber Cutler Gallery, Painterly Paintings, New York, NY

·       Florida State University Gallery & Museum, National Endowment for the Arts 1987-1988 Awards, Tallahassee, Fl.

·       Traveled to: Pensacola Museum of Art

·       GMHC Contemporary Art Auction, Sotheby’s, New York

1987

·       Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, From Private Collections, New York, NY

·       Holly Solomon Gallery, Art Against AIDS, New York, NY

1986

·       Brooklyn Museum, Public & Private, Print Biannual, Brooklyn, NY. Traveled to:

·       Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1985

·       La Foret Museum, Correspondences, curate by Nicholas Moufarrege, Tokyo

·       Art Palace, Group Exhibition, New York, NY

·       GMHCArt Auction, Sotheby’s New York, NY

1984

·       Charles Cowles Gallery, Totem, New York, NY

·       Artists Space, A Decade of Art, curated by Linda Cathcart, New York, NY

·       Monique Knowlton, Ecstasy, curated by Nicholas Moufarrege, New York, NY

1983

·       Monique Knowlton Intoxication, curated by Nicholas Moufarrege, New York, NY

·       Artists Space, Hundreds of Drawings, New York, NY

1982

·       The Drawing Center, New Drawing in America, New York, NY

·       Larry Gagosian Gallery, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

·       Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Young Americans, New York, NY

·       Contemporary Arts Museum, The Americans: The Collage, Houston, TX

1980

·       The Drawing Center, Group Show, New York, NY

·       Brooke Alexander Gallery, Illustration & Allegory, curated by Carter Ratcliff, New York, NY

1978

·       William Wegman, Jon Borofsky, Lois Lane, Susan Rothenberg, Jennifer Bartlett, Philip Smith curated by Douglas Baxter, Philadelphia YMCA,Philadelphia,PA

1977/8

·       Artists Space, Pictures, New York, NY.  Traveled to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH;Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1976 

·       Julian Pretto Gallery, Concert, with Lucio Pozzi, New York, NY

1975

·       Artists Space, Still Stories, New York, NY 

Publications

·       Walking Through Walls; A Memoir, by Philip Smith, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008

Bibliography

·       Modern Painters

·       Freize Magazine

·       The Paris Review

·       The New York Times

·       Artforum

·       Art in America

·       Art News

·       Bomb Magazine

·       ArtSpace

·       Curator Magazine

Awards

·       Artadia Award 2016

·       National Endowment for the Arts 1987