Bob Smith was born in Springfield, Massachussets in 1944
He died in Miami, Florida in 1990
Education
1968
Graduated in Graphics, School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Días de plata y oro, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2022
Art Remains a Witness to a Life, Martos Gallery, New York City, US
1989
Galería Mar Estrada, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Les z’Arts, Les Cerqueux/Passavent, Loire, France
1987
Galería Oliva Mara, Madrid, Spain
Egyptomania N.Y.C. 1977-1980, Terne Gallery, New York, US
Box Constructions, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, US
Window at Chicago Books, New York, US
1986
Wall Constructions, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, US
1984
Box Environments, Yvonne Seguy Gallery, New York, US
1978
Nolo Contendere Gallery, New York, US
1977
Galería Ciento, Barcelona, Spain
1973
Caja de Ahorros de Pamplona, Spain
1972
Galería Vandrés, Madrid, Spain
1971
Galería Vandrés, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Fey & Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
After Lives, Foreign/Domestic Gallery, New York, US
Looking back/The 13th White Columns
Annual, January 20th -March 4th 2023
2019
Either/Or, Viviane Esders & David Panchout, Galerie Luc Berthier, Paris, France
2015
Arstronomy, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
1994
The Box Show, K & E Gallery, New York, US
1991
Discarded, The Emerson Gallery, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, New York, US
1990
Galaxie Gallery, Miami, Florida, US
Arregui Hsia Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, US
1989
Sculpture, East Martello Museum, Key West, Florida, US
Galerie Hélène Grubair, Miami, Florida, US
1987
Two for One-Collaborative Art, Henry Street Settlement, New York, US
1986
Consensus, Exit Art, New York, US
Wall Constructions, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, US
1985
Pandora's Box, Benefit exhibition, New Museum, New York, US
The March Hare Show, Lasser Galleries, New York, US
Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, US
1984
Anniversary Show - Ten Years, The Artist Space, New York, US
Manhattan Art Gallery, New York, US
Bunnies, White Columns, New York, US
Nolo Contendere Gallery, New York, US
Objects, Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, US
Night Gallery, New York, US
Esta Robinson Gallery, New York, NY, US
1983
The Seven Days of Creation, ABC No Rio, New York, US
Selections, The Artist Space, New York, US
1982
Decisions of Arms, Just Above Midtown Downtown Gallery, New York, US
Homage to Joseph Cornell, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, US
Shelter, Public Image Gallery, New York, US
Travelling Scholarship Show, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US
International Shoebox Show, University of Hawaii
1980
O.I.A., Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, New York, US
1979
Cultural Council Foundation, CETA Artists Exhibition, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY also World Trade Center (Court House Mural Proposal)
1978
CETA Artists Exhibition, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York, US
1977
Centennial Exhibition, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., US
1976
Galería Vandrés, Artefiera, Bologna, Italy
1975
Galería Vandrés: 1970-1975, Galería Vandrés, Madrid, Spain
1973
Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Galerie Rodolphe Stadler, Paris, France
1972
La Paloma, Galería Vandrés, Madrid, Spain
North American Painters in Spain, United States Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain
Ibiza Graphics, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Ibiza, Spain
1971
Galería Ivan Spence, Ibiza, Spain
Eros y el arte actual, Galeria Vandrés, Madrid, Spain
Art in public places
1986
Bob Smith Box Environments, Spanish TV, Metropolitan Program
1980
Permanent installation, Dyckman Welfare Center, New York, US
1979
Hocus Focus, Staten Island Children's Museum, New York, US
1978
Homage to Goya, Start 5 Project, Staten Island, New York, US
Stage Design
1986
Basic Stategies No. V, stage set design for choreographer Blondell Cummings, Adams Memorial Theater, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., US
Opening Jan. 24.
Awards
1990
Change Etc., Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, US
1989
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1988
Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, US
1986
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1982
Clarissa Bartlett Travelling Scholarship, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1971
Charles H. Whitman Travelling Scholarship, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1969
Charles H. Whitman Travelling Scholarship, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Selected Bibliography
2022
Nazif, Perwana, "Isn't it Uncanny?", Los Angeles Review of Books, Portfolio, Fall 2022
Higgs, Matthew, "2022 Rewind: The Year in Art #36 June", instagram post, December 24
Robert Nickas, "Art Remains a Witness To a Life", essay, May 2022
Art Daily, "Martos Gallery opens first exhibition of Bob Smith's emblematic box constructions in more than 30 years", June 6.
1991
Zimmer, William, "Big Names in the Recycling Game Coax Poetry from Debris," The New York Times, October 20 (illus.)
Cacioppo, Nancy, "From Waste to Art," Rockland Journal-News, October 4
Abrams, Joyce, "Discarded," Rockland Center for the Arts (catalogue)
1989
Huici, Fernando, "Castles in Spain," El País, Madrid, November
"The Empire of Dreams," Arte, Madrid, November
Phillips, Jane, Island Life, Art Beat, April 13
Cox P., "Boxes as art, Exhibition proves subject not confining," Kendall Gazette, Jan12
1987
Calvo Serraller, Francisco, "Bob Smith, Objects with a soul," El País, Madrid, Sept. 18
1986
"Choreagraphing a collaboration," The Berkshire Eagle, Jan 9
1984
Indiana, Gary, "Bob Smith at Yvonne Seguy," Art in America, November
Kornbluth, July, "A Gallery of His Own," House and Garden, July
1983
Shearer, Linda, "Selections," The Artist Space, New York (catalogue)
Morris, Diana, "Summer Group Show," Arts Magazine, October
1982
Slesin, Suzanne, "A Gentleman's Quarter Made to Order : Ashton Hawkins," The New York Times, Living Section, November 25
1980
Russell, John, "Art For Public Places Captured in Photos," The New York Times, Aug. 28
1978
Karmosky, Wayne, "Public Art: New Risks, New Trust," Journal, Vol. 1/3 May
1977
Rivas, Francisco, "Thirty Days of Images, Bob Smith: This Side of Paradise," Zoom Magazine, Madrid, January
Amon, Santiago, "Bob Smith," El País, Madrid, January 27
Gomez, Soubrier Juan, "Arenas, Colored Pencils: Mediterranean," Opinion, Madrid, Feb.
Messier, Patricia, "Living for the Moment," Guidepost, Madrid, February
Huici, Fernando, "Bob Smith, The Intuition of the Poet," Batik, February
E.A.,"Bob Smith," Blanco y Negro, January 20
Garcia Viñolas, M-A, "Bob Smith," Pueblo, February 15
Television Española, Madrid, "Bob Smith" April 14
1973
Saura, Antonio, "Robert Smith," Galerie Stadler, Paris (catalogue)
1972
Amaya, Mario, "Robert Smith," Galeria Vandrés, Madrid (catalogue)
Review, Pueblo, Madrid, December 28
1971
Review, Pueblo, Madrid, April 28
Review, ABC, Madrid, May 21
"Creations and Drawings of Robert Smith," Ya, May
Delgado, Gerardo, "The World of Robert Smith," El Correo de Andalucía, Sevilla, May 1