Sam Smith is an Australian filmmaker and artist, based in the UK. He is one of the directors of the art gallery Obsidian Coast.
Early life and education Sam Smith was born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
He completed a BFA with Honours at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney, in 2003, and an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2015.
Career Smith's work has been exhibited at film festivals and galleries, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Whitechapel Gallery and Institute of Contemporary Arts, Les Rencontres Internationales (Paris and Berlin), Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) and the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney.
Smith is one of the directors of Obsidian Coast, a gallery in Bradford-on-Avon, with Nella Aarne.
Smith has undertaken a number of residencies. He was part of the International Studio Programme for one year at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Previous residencies include Helsinki International Artist Programme; Artspace, Sydney; and Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan.
Awards 2007: Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship to undertake a series of artist mentorships in New York City and Berlin 2008: Winner, inaugural 2008 Wilson HTM National Art Prize 2008: Winner, Churchie national emerging art prize 2014: Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant
Works + Selected projects Title Details Year Capture Assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body and supported by the UNSW Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, Solid State & Elemental Analysis Unit. 2021 Earth Return mudmindCommissioned for Medium Earth by The Art Gallery of New South Wales 2020 Lithic Coda Commissioned by Prototype Care Packages 2020 Lithic Choreographies An International Art Space commission for spaced 3: north by southeast. Produced with the support of Baltic Art Center 2019 E.1027 Commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, London 2016–19
Personal life Smith lives in Bradford-on-Avon.
References
Publications Frames of Reference with texts by Post Brothers and Jan Verwoert, 128 pages, 28 full colour pages, softcover with French flaps, July 2014. Broken Dimanche Press () and Künstlerhaus Bethanien ().
External links
Sam Smith on MUBI Sam Smith at Künstlerhaus Bethanien