Education

2009 MFA, School of Art and Art History, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

2008 Summer Program, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY

2001 BFA, Department of Art and Art History, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Teaching Experience

2014-Present   Adjunct Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

2022-Present  Adjunct Professor, Samford University, Homewood, AL 

2021-22 Adjunct Professor, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL 

2020-22 Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (online)

2021                Adjunct Professor, Alfred University, Alfred, NY (online)

2013-16 Adjunct Professor, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture

2011-14 Adjunct Professor, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Department of Art, Department of Industrial and Graphic Design

2009-10 Adjunct Professor, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

2007-09 Teaching Assistant, Painting, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

Solo Exhibitions

2024 (Upcoming) For You, and for Me, Visual Arts Center Gallery, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

2020 Edge and Vision, works by Astri Snodgrass & Ty Smith. Vulcan Gallery at Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham, AL

2018 Friends Gallery, The Hoover Public Library, Hoover, AL

2017 Structure for Seeing, Ty Smith & Jurgen Tarrasch, Durbin Gallery, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL

2016 Forty-Nine Drawings, Project Space, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 

2012 Fish Nor Fowl, Ty Smith & Ken Dubin, Times Club, Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IO

2010 Gadsden State University, Gadsden, AL

2008 SELF Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2006 Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, AL 

2005 Matt Jones Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL

Group Exhibitions

2022     Guiding Hands: Exhibition by Adjunct Faculty, Art Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham

2019 28th Annual Juried Exhibition (Juror: Ro Lohin, artist, NY), Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2019 Winter Juried Exhibition (Juror: Elisa Jensen, artist, NY), Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY

Dis-Appearance: Works by Emily Bivens, Rebecca Hackemann, Joshua Huyser and Ty Smith (curated by Almut Haboeck,

Montgomery, AL), Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

2018 Interlude/Inquiry, UAB Faculty Exhibition, Department of Art & Art History, AEIVA, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham,

AL

Nature Rhythms (curated by Tara Stallworth Lee, Maggie King, and Susan Vitali), Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham AL

2016 Oxford Arts Alliance National Juried Exhibition (Juror: Jennifer Samet, NY), Oxford, PA

Moleskine Mailer Collaboration, Tempus Project, Tampa, FL

2015 Mark Lewis and Former MFA Students, Mainline Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2014 2014 National Juried Exhibition (Juror: Jed Perl, writer, New York, NY), First Street Gallery, New York, NY 

2013 Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa, OK. 

2012 2012 National Juried Exhibition (Juror: Dore Ashton, writer), First Street Gallery, New York, NY

Auburn University Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, AL (catalog)

2011 20th Annual Juried Exhibition (Juror: Stanley Lewis, artist), Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

University of New Hampshire MFA 2011 Invitational, University Museum, Durham, NH

Drawing Discourse (Juror: Alex Kanevsky), National Juried Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, University of

North Carolina, Asheville, NC 

2010 Faculty Exhibition, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa School of Art, Tulsa, OK

Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK

25th Annual International Exhibition (Juror: Mark Williams, artist, NY), 

University of Texas at Tyler, Meadows Gallery, Tyler, TX

2009 17th Annual Juried Exhibition (Juror: Paul Resika, artist, New York, NY), Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

20th International Juried Exhibition (Juror: Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art), Viridian Artists Gallery, New

York, NY 

Third National Juried Exhibition (Juror: Susanna Coffey, artist, New York, NY), 

Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2009 at The University of Tulsa: Joe Blair, Cristiana 

Prado and Ty Smith, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

2008 Alvin Sella: New Work (including former student work), Space 301, Mobile, AL

16th Annual Juried Exhibition (Juror: Jed Perl, writer, New York, NY), Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

Annual Gussman Exhibition, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Third Place Award

National Society of Arts and Letters Regional Competition, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, Third Place Award

2005 California Modern Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Montgomery Art Guild Juried Exhibition, Montgomery, AL, Honorable Mention

2004 University of Alabama Graduates Exhibition, Gadsden, AL

2003 Alabama Artists Group Exhibition, Birmingham, AL

Exhibitions Curated

2019 Connections, Ground Floor Contemporary, Guest Curator. Artists: Sarah Jeanne Adkins, Sara Garden Armstrong,

Florence Blair, Catherine Cabaniss, Patty B. Driscoll, Elizabeth Marie Farr, Catharine Friend, Anita Gómez-Ronderos, Melanie Grinney,

Darius Hill, Barbara Hirschowitz, Daisie Hoitsma, Julian Jackson, Leah Karol, Elaine Kinnaird, Tara Stallworth Lee, Claire LeSar, Tracie

Noles-Ross, Jimmy Nunn, Jr., Miriam Norris Omura, Emily Rice, Rae Trimmier, Susan Vitali, Ashley Wingo, Mary Grace Wolnski,

Birmingham, AL

2018 Of Weight and Breath, East Side Project Space (ESPS), Artists: Brett Baker (NC), Susanna Coffey (NY), Clare Grill (NY),

and Ellen Siebers (NY). Co-Curated with Christina Renfer Vogel (TN), Nashville, TN

2008 Paintings from the University of Tulsa Painting Department, SELF Gallery, Tulsa, OK

Visiting Artist

2020     Visiting Faculty, Lead Drawing Instructor, Mount Gretna School of Art, Intensive Program, Lancaster, PA

2020     Visiting Artist, Vulcan Gallery at Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham AL

2018      Visiting Artist, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

2017      Workshop and Visiting Faculty, Source / Measurement / Shift, Still Life Drawing from Observation to Abstraction, Mount Gretna School

of Art, Intensive Program, Lancaster, PA

2010      Visiting Faculty, The Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY

Artist Lectures

2024 Lecture and Student Critiques, St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, DE

2024 Lecture and Student Critiques, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

2021 Lecture and Graduate Critiques, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa OK

2020 Lecture, Mount Gretna School of Art, Lancaster, PA

Lecture, HPL Galleries: Artist Talk Series with Ty Smith, The Hoover Public Library, Hoover, AL, June 25.

2020     Lecture and Student Critiques, Vulcan Gallery at Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham, AL

2019 Panel Discussion, With Feeling, Jennifer Marshall, Anne Herbert, Bryce Speed, Ty Smith, Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham,

AL, July 21.

Lecture and Panel Discussion, Dis-Appearance, Emily Bivens, Rebecca Hackeman, Joshua Huyse, Ty Smith, Department of Art and

Art History, Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Jan 31.

2017 Lecture, Mount Gretna School of Art, Lancaster, PA

2016 Lecture, Project Space, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, Jan 20.

Grants

2008 University of Tulsa Graduate Research Award

2007 University of Tulsa Graduate Research Award

Public Collections

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

Duvall Atelier, Tulsa, OK

Bibliography

McCormick, Janice. “MFA Thesis Exhibition 2009 at The University of Tulsa: Joe Blair, Cristiana Prado and Ty Smith.” ArtFocus Oklahoma Volume 24 No.3 May/June 2009: 13.

Thomason, Shannon (January 11, 2016) "Ty Smith: Forty-Nine Drawings” at Project Space". UAB News

Thomason, Shannon (October 29, 2018) “UAB art faculty exhibition at AEIVA, Nov. 5-Dec. 8”. UAB News.

Williams, Libby. “Testing Authentic Waters.” Urban Tulsa Weekly 15-21 July 2010: 45.

Birmingham-Southern College. (Dec. 16, 2016) "BSC’s Durbin Gallery to host dual exhibition “Structure for Seeing” in January".

Hoover Sun. (Jun 25, 2020) “Artist Talk with Ty Smith”

Iowa City Arts Review. (October 21, 2012) ““Fish nor Fowl” by Ken Dubin and Ty Smith”.

The Hoover Public Library. (January, 2018) “Ty Smith at Friends Gallery, Hoover Public Library”.

University of Alabama. (January 31, 2020) “Alumni Artists Featured at Vulcan Materials Gallery”. UA News

Non-Academic Experience

2012-14 Head Museum Preparator, Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 

2008 Studio Assistant to artist, Mark Lewis, Tulsa, OK

Technical Abilities

2014 Workshop, Packing and Crating for Museum Objects, Instructor: John Molini, Chief of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Packing and

Shipping Department, Campbell Center, Mount Carroll, IL

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