RESUME
MEL SMOTHERS
Linked-In: Top
5% viewed profile for 2012.
SELECTED SOLO
EXHIBITIONS:
Indiewalls, New York City. 2013, Iber Gonzalez Vidals, curator.
Indiewalls, New York City. 2012, Sabrina Wirth, curator.
Pence Gallery,
Davis CA. 2012, Natalie Nelson, curator.
Judaica Museum, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Gilbert Pavilion
Gallery, New York City, 2009, Emily O’Leary, Curator.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
‘Bushwick Painters,” Studio 26, New York
City, 2013
‘Art Takes Times Square, Times Square, New
York, 2012
‘Unearthing the Narrative in Art Today, The 23rd
Atmosphere Gallery, Chicago, 2011
‘Open
Portfolio New York, 2010,’ Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2010.
‘Beyond
Warhol in the 21st Century: A Post-Pop Romantic Retrofit,’ Chicago
and New York, 2010
Peter
Marcelle Contemporary, New York City, 2008-09-10.
30th
Annual Emerging Artists 2007 Invitational," Cooper Union, New York City,
2007.
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York City, NY. 2002-2005.
VIDEO:
2011,
"Fiddle Road."
2005,
"Regarding Pollock."
2004, "Come
to Me."
1989, "Bobalus."
SELECTED
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS:
2010 Endangered World: Biscayne
National Park Installation with Xavier Cortada.
2003 completion. 72” x 192” (3D) mural and
24- 48” x 48” “flip” panels. Light Rail train station, 21st and Broadway,
Sacramento, CA.
PROFESSIONAL
TEACHING:
University of
California at Davis, CA. Instructor, 2001-04.
Sierra Nevada
College, Lake Tahoe, NV., Adjunct Faculty, 2000.
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID., Teaching Assistant, 1999.
EDUCATION:
Masters in Fine Art, University of Idaho, 1999.
University of
California at Davis, Professor Wayne Thiebaud: Life Drawing, Print-making, Art
Criticism.
BA Degree, Studio Art, California State University,
Sacramento, CA. 1991.
PUBLICATIONS:
“Art Takes Time Square,” Catalog, New York City. 2012
“Wedding Book,” self-published, New York City. 2010
“Concious Reader, 11e”, Longman Publishers,
New York City, 2008. ISBN: 0205661681X . Digital edition, 2010.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
San Jose State
University, California.
Judaica Museum,
Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Gilbert Pavilion Gallery
Higgenbotham Museum, Virginia
Brooklyn
Museum, New York City
Museum of
Community University of New York (CUNY)
Whipple Art
Museum
Mid-America
All Indian Center
University of
California at Davis
California
State University at Sacramento
Woodland Community Hospital
Kaiser Health
Corporation
Merrill Lynch
Sacramento
Regional Transit
Summit Medical
Center
South Lake
Tahoe Public Library
El Dorado
County Public Library
Foundation
Health Corporation
Prudential
Securities
Yolo County
Health and Education
Private
Collections