Barbara T. Smith
Born in Pasadena, California, 1931
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1969-1971 University of California, Irvine
1965 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA (Emerson Woelfer, Conner Everts)
1949-1953 Pomona College, Claremont, CA, Cum Laude
Select Solo Exhibitions
UPCOMING
ICA LA, Los Angeles, CA
2023
The Way to Be, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2019
The 21st Century Odyssey, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Just Passing, organized by Lisa Williamson, Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA
Outside Chance, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Words, Sentences & Signs, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Smell of Almonds: Resin Works, 1968 - 1982, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Frieze Art Fair, exhibited by The Box, London, UK (Winner of the Frieze Stand Prize)
2013
Xerox: Barbara T. Smith, 1965 – 1966, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2011
The Radicalizations of a '50s Housewife, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA
2009
Old Shoes: Performance Relics, 1968 – 1975, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Barbara T. Smith: Early Performances, 1969-1976,</em > Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2008-09
Barbara T. Smith: Early Work, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2008
Barbara T. Smith, 1965-1972, Maccarone, New York, NY
2007
Remnants, 1965 - 1972, The Box, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
2005
The 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Performances of Barbara T. Smith, </em >Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA and Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2003
Making Book, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1999
Blue Shards, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
1992
This Is It, Glenmoore Guest House, Dharamsala, India
1990
Bottom Line. Highways, Santa Monica, CA
1989
Ground Zero, SPARC (Social Public Art Resource Center), Venice, CA
The Pageant of the Holy Squash: Creche, </em >Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY
1988
A Meeting Ground, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
1987
Hunab Ku, Private home, San Francisco, CA
1985
Council of Elders, AAA Gallery, Michael Salerno, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Tree, Council, Template, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1982
Static Art by Performance Artists, ESPACE DBD/Rachel Rosenthal Company, Los Angeles, CA
1980
PUBLIC SPIRIT/LIVE ART Los Angeles Exhibitions:
The Perpetual Napkin,</em > Vanguard Gallery
Piercing the Corporate Veil, American Hotel Gallery
1976
Dimensions, Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974
Retrospective exhibition curated by Moira Roth, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
Xerox Works,</em > University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA
1971
Field Piece, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Field Piece,</em > F-Space Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Celebration of the Holy Squash,</em > University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA
1970
Homage for Mark Rothko, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1966
YWCA, Pasadena, CA (sponsored by the Pasadena Art Museum)
1965
Auguste Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Group Exhibitions
UPCOMING
2023
Craft & Conceptual Art: Reshaping the Legacy of Artists’ Books, curated by Megan Liberty, Center for Book Arts, NY (traveling exhibition: San Francisco Center for Book Arts; Minnesota Center for Book Arts)
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982, curated by Leslie Jones, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2022
how we are in time and space: Nany Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, Barbara T. Smith, curated by Michael Ned Holte, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Let Me Talk, Brand Library & Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Holy Squash, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Red Wedding, RUSCHMAN, Chicago, IL
2019
Open House: Elliott Hundley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Pond and Waterfall, co-organized with Julia Trotta, The Gallery @ Michael’s, Santa Monica, CA
Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists</em >, the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Mother – Portraits in Petri Dishes</em >, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art from the Whitney's Collection, 1966 - 1986</em >, Whitney American Museum of Art, New York, NY
Impermanence, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Prospect 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, London, UK
Physical Mind Restless Hands, organized by Benedicte Gyldenstierne Sehested, Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California</em >, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Mommy, Yale Union, Portland, OR
A Performative Trigger: Radicals of Irvine</em >, curated by Juli Carson and Marilyn Nix, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s, </em >LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, CA
Columbidae,</em > Cell Project Space, London, UK
Independent art fair, exhibited by The Box, New York, NY
In Search of an Exit (or Eight Characters in a Parlor)</em >, USC Roski School of Art And Design at the Heritage Square Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Bakersfield, CA
2014
A Machinery For Living organized by Walead Beshty, Petzel, New York, NY
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Great Expectations</em >, Home of Daniel Milewski and Nina Johnson-Milewski, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
2013
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Bronx Museum, New York; Smart Museum, University of Chicago, IL
This Side of the 405</em > (featuring Hot Peppers), Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College, Los Angeles, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Abstraction (Sound and Vision), California State University, Bakersfield, CA
2012
Painting, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
re.act.feminism #2 - A Performing Archive,</em > Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
The Historical Box, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
Print Imprint, Actual Size LA, Los Angeles, CA
re.act.feminism #2 - A Performing Archive,</em > Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
2011
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, </em >Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Historical Box, </em >Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964 - 1971, </em >Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 - 1981,</em > MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 - 1981,</em > The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Installations Inside/Out, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2008
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,</em > MoMA PS1, New York City, NY
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia,</em > OCA (Office for Contemporary Art), Oslo, Norway
2007
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Into Me, Out of Me,</em > MACRO Testaccio (MACRO Future), Rome, Italy
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,</em > The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980 - 2006,</em > Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Since the ‘60s’: California Experiments, </em >OCMA (Orange County Museum of Art), Newport Beach, CA
Maternal Metaphors,</em > Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Passions de l’ete pour l’hiver,</em > FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France
2006
Renegades 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York City, NY
Into Me / Out of Me, Kunst-Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Into me / Out of Me,</em > MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Los Angeles 1955 - 1985: The Birth of an Art Capital,</em > Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
2005
CoCA Annual 2005, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Incognito,</em > Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Joe Goode’s Fire Sale, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Seeking Eden, Crazy Space, 18th Street Arts Center, Pasadena, CA
High Performance: The First 5 Years, 1978 - 1982 c</em >urated by Jenni Sorkin, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA
2002
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
My Brother's Image,</em > Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
Parallels & Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000,</em > San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
High Performance: The First 5 Years, 1978 - 1982,</em > George J. Doizaki Gallery, Dai Shikishi, JACCC, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Made in California: Art/Image & Identity, 1900 - 2000, </em >LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, CA
1999
BroadCast, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Eagle Rock, CA
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960 - 1974, </em >The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
To See Again,</em > Collaboration with Anna Pomaska, 18th Street Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Out of Actions: Between Performance & the Object, 1947 - 1979, </em >MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. (Tours MACBA, Barcelona, Spain and Tokyo, Japan)
Art & Nature,</em > Rico Gallery Inc., Santa Monica, CA
1997
Better With Age, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dreams of Life and Death, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
1996
The Art Embodied, MAC Galleries Contemporaines des Musees de Marseille, Marseille, France
Photo Odyssey,</em > Margaret Crow Gallery, Pasadena, CA
The Woman's Eye,</em > Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, CA
1995
Endurance, Exit Art , New York City, NY
1994
Who Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? </em >(with Hirokazu Kosaka; includes collaborations with S. Pinkel, J. Williamson, G. Cowan, S. Stuart, U. Birkoff), The New Gallery, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Go Down Stairs Diagonally, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Amazing Decade Revisited,</em > 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
1990
Modern Buddhist Art II, Hofheim, West Germany
Visiting Faculty Show, Hopkins Gallery, Ohio State University, OH
Nomadic, Sullivant Hall, Ohio State University, OH
1989
A Delicate Balance: Technics, Culture & Consequences,</em > California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Making Their Mark: Women Artists move into the Mainstream, 1970 - 1985,</em > Cincinnatti Art Museum, OH (traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and rc drone the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1988
Art At Pomona, 1887-1987, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
The Goddess: Life, Death and Transformation,</em > SPARC (Social Public Art Resource Center), Los Angeles, CA
1987
A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Book Works: The Last Five Years,</em > Otis College, Los Angeles, CA; Parsons, New York, NY
Pacific Oaks School Benefit Exhibit and Auction, Pacific Oaks Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1983
LACE Open Studio Tour
End of the Rainbow, SPARC (Social Public Art Resource Center), Los Angeles, CA
1982
Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1981
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1980
A Decade of Women's Performance, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Dirty Pictures, Exile, Los Angeles, CA
The Art of The Woman's Building, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Art of The Woman's Building, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA
1979 - 1981
Electroworks, George Eastman House and Xerox Corporation, Rochester, NY
1978
100+: Current Directions in Contemporary Art, </em >LAICA (Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, CA
Only Women Bleed,</em > LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA
1977
Visions, Dreams, Illusions, University of California, Davis, CA
The Artist's Book, University of California, San Diego, CA
Bookworks, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Art Stories, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1976
The Great Egg Sale, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1975
The Irvine Milieu, La Jolla Museum, San Diego, CA
UCI: The First Decade, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
Pasadena in L.A.,</em > California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1974
The Floating Wall Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Art and Technology,</em > California Institute of Technology, CA
1973
Newspace Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Conceptual Art Show,</em > Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Museum of Drawers,</em > Berne, Switzerland
1972
Small Image Show, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Books from Southern California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
The Last Plastics Show,</em > California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA
21 Artists, Visible-Invisible,</em > LBMA (Long Beach Museum of Art), Long Beach, CA
New Art from Orange County,</em > Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Survivors '72,</em > Henry Gallery, University Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Graduate Exhibition, University of California, Irvine, CA
1971
How the West was Won, Fresno State College, Fresno, CA
1970
Drawing and Performance, USC E.A.T. SHOW, University of California, Irvine, CA
Small Image Show, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Scratch, Pacific Oaks School Benefit, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, F-Space Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1969
Easter Event, Brookside Park, Pasadena, CA
1965
People Who Should Be Seen, LACMA Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Performances
2014
"Wresting" Step and Repeat, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2009
“Hold Your Mud, L.A.”,Highways, Santa Monica, CA.
2006
“A Meditation on Time”, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
“A Meditation on Time”, UCSD Memorial for Allan Kaprow
2005
“A Meditation on Time”, Ohio University, Athens, OH
“A Meditation on Time”, Pomona College Museum of Art
2003
“Making Book” residency & performance, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
2001
“Kaleidoscope” with 7 older women artists, UCLA Hammer Museum. WCA: BOLD, YOUNG &OLD: WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Symposium
“Am I Blue?”, Crazy Space, Santa Monica
“The Runaway”, Side Street LIVE, L.A.
1999
"The Witness", The Armory, Pasadena RADICAL PAST: CONTEMPORARY ART & MUSIC IN PASADENA 1960-74.
1998
Fais Do-do, L.A "Into the Red" Dinner event for Beyond the Pink Festival artists/ MOCA show
1996
"Tales of the Odyssey" with Anna Pomaska, Margaret Crow Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1993
"Odysseus Blind Date" with Biosphere2 & ECI, Gronland Grenhus, Oslo, Norway
"21st Century Odyssey World Report", 911 Video art space
Women's Caucus For Art Convention, Seattle
"Valentine's to Biosphere2 & ECI" , San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (Work shop)
1992
"World Report from the 21st Century Odyssey", Electronic Cafe International (ECI)
"This Is My Calling,” Bluff- Above Sydney and Resource Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
ECI "Fundraising Superbowl"
1991
"Love and Other Pressing Issues", Ocean Park Beach and Electronic Cafe Int.
1990
"Improper Meditations" with Roy Walford, Highways, Santa Monica, CA.
"Communications Practicum 101", Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
"Big Bang", Wexner Center for Visual Arts, OSU.
1989
"Parallel Journeys I & II", Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ.
"Ground Zero", SPARC, Venice, CA.
1988
"Pageant of the Holy Squash: Creche", Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY.
"Pageant of the Holy Squash: Ceremony", Streets of the Bronx and Harlem, NY.
1986
"The Cauldron", BTS Garden, Venice, CA
"The Cauldron", University of Victoria, British Columbia.
"Sheer Cliffs and Natural Bridges", University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"Sheer Cliffs and Natural Bridges", School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Randolph Street Gallery.
1985
"Transmission" (performance for video) w/Liz Rymland, Lhasa Club, Los Angeles.
"Rainbow Bleed", UCLA Student Committee for the Arts series, ACTIVE MODERN WOMEN IN THE ARTS
"Winter Solstice Ritual", Zuma Beach, CA.
1984
“Tree” installation, Capp St. Project, San Francisco.
"Council" (a community ceremony)
"Template" (three-week ceremonial retreat)
1983
"Shatterhouse", Space Available, Denver.
"Food", Center for Idea Art, Denver.
"Conjuring the Crone", Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara.
"So What's That About", Metropolis, Los Angeles.
"One Mind", Dorland Mountain Colony, Temecula, CA.
1982
"1,000 Small Fires", Berlin, West Germany.
"Quintessential Mu" , The House, Santa Monica.
"Mother/Me", Malibu, CA.
1981
"Birthdaze"m Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Including Victor Henderson, Allan Kaprow, Paul McCarthy, Kim Jones
“Winter Solstice Ritual for Susanna Dakin”, private Malibu residence
"Luck be a Lady", Espace DBD, Los Angeles.
"The Perpetual Napkin", University of Chicago Renaissance Society & Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Visual Fundamentals”, UCLA/ Performance class
1979
"Watching Her Go", Rosebud Hall, Pasadena. (memorial for Margaret Turner)
1978
"It's Either Him or Me”, Artist's Studio, with Allan Kaprow, Dick Kilgroe, and Ed Miller.
"A Negotiation", Chapman College.
"Nada, Nada, Nada", Franklin Furnace, New York, NY.
1977
"The Round Table", UCSD conference, THE USE OF THEATER IN ART AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC.
"Ordinary Life, Part II", 80 Langton Street, San Francisco.
"Ordinary Life, Part I", LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
1976
“The Absent Lover”, Cal State Dominguez Hills
"Personal Attraction", Judaeca, Venice, Italy.
"The Cloistered Study", Johnston College.
"Hey Big Brother, One at a Time", Johnston College.
"I Am Not Lost but Hidden", Johnston College.
"A Week in the Life of . . ." a performance auction. Pasadena Artists' Concern Gallery.
"Scan I", Grandview I & II Galleries, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles
1974
"Full Jar Empty Jar", UCSD, San Diego, CA
"I Am the Medium", Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles.
"Cross Fire", ARTISTS & ADVOCATES BALL, Los Angeles.
"Intimations of Immortality", Grandview I & II Galleries, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles.
1973
"The Longest Day of Night", Artist's Studio.
"Pure Food", Costa Mesa, CA.
"Sometimes You Don't Have to Do Anything", Loguidice Gallery, New York, NY.
"Suspension", California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1972
"Trajectory", Laguna Beach, CA.
"Morning Watch" (for Moira Roth), Newport Beach, CA.
"Guerrilla Capers" Selected sites, Los Angeles, CA.
"The Fisherman IS the Fish" (catalog), F-Space Gallery, Santa Ana, sponsored by the Newport Harbor Art Museum.
"Nude Frieze", F-Space Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1971
"Light Watch"/ “Field Piece” w/ talk by Dr. H. Arp, camera, F-Space Gallery and Newport Beach marshland.
"Celebration of the Holy Squash" (with installation), UCI
"White Meal for Wesley Duke Lee", Newport Beach, CA.
"Freeway Map", U.S. Mail.
"Assignments", Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA.
1969
"Fire Rings" (part I of a triptych), Newport Beach, CA.
"Mass Meal" (part II of a triptych), Artist's Studio.
"Plots" (part III of a triptych), Selected sites, CA.
"The Masked God", The Walrus, Venice, CA.
"Ritual Meal", Home of Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, Los Angeles.
Select Collections
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, UCLA
J. Paul Getty Museum
California Institude of the Arts
Otis College of Art & Design
Pomona College Museum of Art
Frac des pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Archives of the Venice Biennale
Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum
