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Leah Smith

born 1990, San Francisco, CA
lives and works in Canton, NC

Education

2013        BA magna cum laude, Studio Art, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2015-16    MFA program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Exhibitions

2025 soft grids, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC (upcoming solo)

2024 Small Works, Harper College, Palatine, IL

2023 Atrium Series, The Bascom: Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC

2019 Featured Artist, Kingfisher Bar, Durham, NC (solo)

2019 Community as Creator: Seeing Sound, collab. with Duke New Music Ensemble (one night event) Durham, NC

2019 Geometrification, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2019 Art on Paper Fair, Cinders Gallery, New York, NY

2019 Flat File Show, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY

2018    Hillsborough Street Temporary Pedestals (public sculpture), Raleigh Arts Council, Raleigh, NC

2018    Come Out and Play, Chapel Hill, NC

2017    Multiples, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC 

2017    The Lived Body, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

2016    ma(t)ter-realism, Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

2015    The Forest for the Trees (two-person w/ Michelle Podgorski), Artspace, Raleigh, NC

2015    Earthy Abstractions, Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville, NC

2013    Studio Major Thesis Exhibition (solo), Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2013    Annual Student Group Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2012    Annual Student Group Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2011    Annual Student Group Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

Residencies

2018    Hambidge Creative Residency Program, Rabun Gap, GA  Nov. 6-18

2018    I-Park Residency, East Haddam, CT Sept. 12-Oct 8

Honors

2018 Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Artist Lecture Series (Oct. 26th, 2018)

2013   Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma of North Carolina

2012    McAllen Scholarship for Studio Art

Professional Experience

Fall 2015- Spring 2016 

Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill: ARTS 103 Core Concepts: Space (Fall), and ARTS 105 Basic Photography (Spring)

April 2016 - Oct 2019

Lutherie Assistant, Pre-War Guitars Co., Hillsborough, NC

June 2016 - 2018 (intermittent/as-needed basis)

Studio assistant to Donald Martiny, Chapel Hill, NC