ZAK SMITH
b. 1976, Syracuse, NY
Lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions
2008
"Midnight in the Empire", Fredericks & Freiser, New York
2007
"Half the Artist’s Proceeds from This Show Will Go to Benefit the Victims of God and Capitalism", Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Fred", London, UK
2005
"Exquisite as Fuck", Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2004
"Hope You Like It", Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2003
"Paintings That Look Good and Were Hard to Make", Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
2002
"20 Eyes in My Head", Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
Yale Norfolk Summer Program, Norfolk, CT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
"New Work: Zak Smith", Tim Gardner, and Marcelino Goncalves, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Sweets & Beauties", Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2005
"2nd Annual Watercolor Exhibition", Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY
"Feeling Strangely Fine", Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain
2004
"Drawings Only", Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"2004 Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Me, Myself & I", Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
"Moving Outlines", Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
2002
"Hello, My Name Is...", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, (curated by Laura Hoptman and Elizabeth Thomas)
"Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation", Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, (curated by Barbara Bloemink, catalogue)
2001
"I See You 2", Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY, (curated by Sam Messer and Kiki Smith)
Bibliography
2007
Zimmer, Amy. "Stockpiling Art for the Armory", Metro, February 22, pp 1, 3. (illustration)
Battaglia, Andy. "Kissing Pynchon's sister", The Onion, January 18-24, pg 34 (illustration)
2006
Tepper, Anderson. "Rainbow Collection", Vanity Fair, December, pg 144 (illustration)
Coe, Julie. "24th Street", Departures, November/December, pg 104 (illustration)
Valdes, Marcela. "Pictures of Pynchon", The Washington Post, November 26
Lacayo, Richard. "Pynchon vs. the Toaster", Time, November 20, pg 75 (illustration)
Barton, Emily. "Thomas Pynchon, illustrated", Los Angeles Times, November 19
Smith, Zak. "Foreword from Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated", Tin House Magazine, Vol 8, No 1, Fall, pp 12-18 (illustration)
Kagiyama, Hiroshi. "New York, No Wave", Huge, August, pp 28-29, 34-35 (illustration)
Peck, Jaime. "Mr. Smith Gets Ahead", The L Magazine, July 5-18, pp 36-37 (illustration)
Maki. "The Unpredictable Mr. Smith", Cover, July/July, pp 212-217 (illustration)
"Built to Sell?", Nylon, March 6, pg 73 (illustration)
Armory Show Report, "Sales in the City: Hot Deals from the Fair", artinfo.com, March 15
Berwick, Carly. "Triptych: Who Bought What and Why?", New York Magazine, March 27, pg 81 (illustration)
Honigman, Ana Finel. "Zak Smith", Tema Celeste, January/February, pg 89
Leffingwell, Edward. "Zak Smith" (review), Art in America, February, pg 130
Sheets, Hilarie M. "The Big Draw", ArtNews, January, pp 98-103 (illustration)
2005
Kley, Elisabeth. "Zak Smith", ARTNews, December, 2005, pg 147
Henry, Max. Zak Smith "Exquisite as Fuck", Time Out New York, October 20-26, p. 71. (with illustration)
Harper's Magazine, (9 illustrations for Doris Lessing Essay) October 2005, pg 29
Feitelberg, Rosemary. "Zak Smith: Taking No Shortcuts", Womenís Wear Daily, Friday, September 30, 2005, pg. 24
Douglas, Sarah. "Ever Changing Chelsea Movers and Shakers", Artinfo.com, August 3, 2005
Upton, Creon. "On a Giant's Shoulder: Zak Smith Illustrates Gravityís Rainbow", April, 2005, pp.1-6
2004
Matt Price, "Mixed Paint: A Survey of Contemporary Painters", Flash Art, November-December
Abbe, Mary. "Words and Pictures", Star Tribune, December 17, 2004, (Illustration)
Kelsey, John. "On the Ground", Artforum, December, 2004, pg.55 (Photo)
Smith, Zak. "Best of 2004 Books"(Review), Artforum, December, 2004, pg. 49
Bellini, Andrea. "I Nuovissimi di New York", Flash Art, Giugno-Luglio 2004, pg. 93
Mitchell, Claire. "Over the Rainbow", Nylon, October, 2004, pg. 104
Brenner, Wayne Alan. "Visual Arts Review" The Austin Chronicle, October 15, 2004
"A Postcard from Americas’s Cutting Edge", The Financial Times, March 23, 2004, pg 12
Sundell, Margret. "The Today Show", Time Out, March 25-April 1, 2004, pp. 56-57
Kimmelman, Michael. "Touching All Bases At the Biennial", The New York Times, March 12, p. E1
Smith, Roberta. "Emerging Talent, and Plenty of it", The New York Times, March 12, p. E1
2003
Yablonsky, Linda. "Punk Portraitist", ARTnews, September, p. 96, (with illustration)
Bloemink, Barbara. "Is it ok to laugh yet?", Comic Release!, pp. 94-109
Clark, Vicky A. and Barbara Bloemink, Comic Release! Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, DAP, New York, p. 85 (illustration).
"Zak Smith: Picks", New York Press, March 26
Laster, Paul. "Zak Smith, Flavor Pill #150", flavorpill.com, April 22-April 28 (with illustration)
2002
Shaw, Kurt. "Saying ‘Hello’", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, July 5 (with illustration)
"Carnegie Museum of Art Introduces Emerging Artists with their Self-Portraits", Antiques & The Arts Weekly, July 5
Thomas, Mary. " ‘Hello, My Name Is…’", Post Gazette, July 13 (with illustration)
"‘Hello My Name Is… Introduces Young Artists Through Self-Portraits", absolutearts.com, June 28
Schwendener, Martha. "Zak Smith at Fredericks Freiser", Artforum, May (with illustration)
Valdez, Sarah. "Zak Smith: ‘20 Eyes in My Head’", Time Out New York, February 21-28, p. 51 (with illustration)
Yablonsky, Linda. "Painting the Town", Time Out New York, March 7-14, p. 69
Henry, Max. "Gotham Dispatch", Artnet.com, February 27
Monographs
2006
Smith, Zak, and Steve Erickson. Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picutre for Every Page, Tin House
2005
Momin, Shamim. "One Thousand Choices Per Minute" in Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls, DAP
Schwendener, Martha. "Zak Smith" in Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon (with illustrations), pp 9, 10, 302-305, 348
Public Collections
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Education
1999-2001
Yale University, New Haven, CT, MFA
1999
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1994-1998
Cooper Union, New York, NY, BFA