curriculum vitae
Gregg Smith, 13-2-70, Cape Town, South Africa
Lives in Paris, France
www.greggsmith.co.za
Education
2002-2004 Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing. France.
2001-2002 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.
1988-1991 Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, SA.
Solo exhibitions
2012 École régionale des beaux-arts de Valence, Malleable tracks.
2011 Toilet encounters # 4 : chez Charlie Jeffery & Chantal Santon, Paris, France.
2007 Galeria dels Angels - Carmelitas Gallery, LOOP '07, Barcelona, Spain.
2006 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain.
2006 Le Plateau, Espace Experimantal, Paris, France, 'The End.'
2006 FLACC, Centrum van beeldende kunsten, Genk, Belgium
2001 Gasworks Studios and Gallery, London, GB, 'The Lovephones in London.’
1998 Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, SA.
1994 South African Association for the Arts Gallery, Cape Town, SA
Group exhibitions and festivals
2011 Slipping Glimpser,
curated by Marco Costantini and Federica Martini, exhibition in former atomic shelters, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Love, jealousy and wanting to be in two places at once, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2010 Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Love, jealousy and wanting to be in two places at once, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
2010 12º Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte, Underexposed, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2010 I Remain Silent, Galerie Krinzinger, curated by Eric Schmidt, Vienna, Austria.
2010 Mostra Competiva, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Tiger Short Film Competition, Underexposed, Rotterdam The Netherlands.
2009 Les Rencontres Internationales 2009-10, Underexposed, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
2009 Festival International de Courts Métrages d'Aix-en-Provence et du Pays d'Aix, France.
2009 Never Dance Alone, Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains.
2009 Ce qui travaille, Khiasma, Mairie de Lilas, Paris, France.
2009 Sing into my mouth, commissaire : Julia Rosa Clarke, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape
Town, ZA.
2009 Les Rencontres Internationales, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Espagne.
2009 "en découdre" , curated by Alexandra Fau, Fondation Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, France.
2008 Les Rencontres Internationales, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. 2009 "en découdre" , curated by Alexandra Fau, Fondation Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, France.
2008 Les Rencontres Internationales, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
2008 Le Cinéma en numérique, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
2008 La Toile et l'Ecran, (CulturesFrance/ Le Fresnoy), Musé du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
2008 Animated Nature, curated by Juan-Ramón Barbancho, Espacio Santa Lucía, Seville, Spain.
2008 Zapping Unit, curated by Keren Detton, La Ferme de Buisson, Paris, France.
2008 Coté Court, 17 e Festival du film court en Seine-Saint-Denis/Pantin
2008 Les Rencontres Internationales, Filmoteca Espanola , Madrid, Espagne.
2008 Studio, Galerie Filles de Calvaire, curated by Madeleine van Doren, Paris, France.
2008 Subtil Textil, La Galerie des galeries, curated by Alexandra Fau, Paris, France.
2008 Your forest in my forest, Les Salaisons, Romainville, Paris, France.
2007 Vidéothèque mobile, Le Plateau Espace expérimental, Paris France.
2007 Cinéma en numérique, Cahiers du cinéma, MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris, France.
2007 Territoires de l'image, Musé de beaux arts de Lille.
2007 Les 10 ans du Fresnoy : Maison de l'architecture et de la ville; Le Fresnoy studio national.
2007 Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Le Cinéma du Monde, Paris, France.
2007 Our Hospitality, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castellon, Rodrigo Alonso, Castellon, Spain.
2007 Points d'impact, Piano Nobile, Geneva, Switzerland.
2006 Architecture au corps, Galerie Anton Weller, une proposition d’Alexandra Fau, Paris, France.
2006 Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Le Cinéma du Monde, Paris, France.
2006 Festival de cinéma Documentaire sur Grand Ecran, sélection de Emmanuel Burdeau,
Le Cinémathèque du Cinéastes, Paris, France.
2006 FIDMarseille International Documentary Film Festival, selection Emmanuel Burdeau, France.
2006 Points d'impact O6, Espace Piano Nobile, Geneva, Switzerland.
2006 E-Flux video rental, selection Ives Maes, Antwerp, Belgium.
2006 de Warende,'Nie meer,' curated by Ellen Loots and Ives Maes, Turnhout, Belgium.
2006 Maison Rouge, Paris, by invitation of Jean Conrad Lemaittre, Paris, France.
2006 Marcher, curated by Martine Michard, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, France.
2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Tiger Short Film Competition, NL.
2006 SVP / Soirée Vidéos et Performances, l'Association Kunstart, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 2005 Model Missed Opportunities, curated by Sabine Winkler, Brandenburger Kunstverein, Berlin.
2005 Videobrazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2005 Galerie des Angels, LOOP Video Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
2005 Migrations culturelles aquitaine afriques, Novart Bordeaux Festival, Bordeaux, France.
2005 Hidden Rhythms (Nijmegen, NL), curated by Hilde de Bruin.
2005 Hilchot Schschenim C at the Digital Art Lab (Tel Aviv, Israel).
2005 Museum Jeu de Paume, Paris, AFAA Selection.
2005 Rotterdam Film Festival, Background to a seduction.
2004 Galerie des Angels, Barcelona, Spain.
2004 Home cinema, Le Havre, curated by Patrice Blouin.
2004 Videopool, Berlin, curated by Harm Lux.
2004 Panorama 5, Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France.
2004 Dakar Biennale, Senegal.
2003 Lautloses Irren/Silent Wandering, Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany, curated by Harm Lux, catalogue.
2003 OK Video, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2003 Videobrazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2002 ‘Rendezvous in Xiamen,’ Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China.
2002 SMART Project Space, Threshold, Amsterdam
2002 De Appel, A’dam & Eve, On Sex, tolerance and other dependencies. Amsterdam,NL.
2002 Circus Maximus, Lazy Marie, Utrecht, NL.
2000 South African National Gallery, Softserve.
1999 Tijdskriften Presens, Glashuset, Gothenburg, Sweden, 'Breathe 1,’ with catalogue.
1999 Old Granary, Cape Town, ZA, 'Staking Claims' ,curated by Emma Bedford, for the Cape Town
One City, Many Cultures Festival, with catalogue
1999 The Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg, SA, 'Unplugged'
1999 Association of Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town, SA, 'Channel Video Art' co-organised and curated with Robert Weinek.
1997 Cape Town Castle and Sandton Civic Gallery, Cape Town, ZA, 'Cyst'
1997 District Six Sculpture Festival, with catalogue
Performances
2005 ‘It’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it,’ with Michael Sellam, Hidden Rhythms, Nijmegen, NL
2005 ‘Men and boxes’, with Michael Sellam, Jeune Creation 2005, La Bellevilloise, Paris.
2003 ‘Love, jealousy and wanting to be in two places at once,’ Cape Town, South Africa.
2003 ‘notorious,’ Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2002 ‘it never entered my mind,’ with Mathilde Rosier, Amsterdam
2002 ‘brief encounter,’ with Ana Kadoic, Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China.
2002 ‘Notorious’ and ‘Funny, we’ve actually met before,’ SMART Project Space, Amsterdam.
2002 ‘Notorious,’ Grand Café, Amsterdam Central Station, Amsterdam, NL
2002 ‘trams taken and trams missed,’ BIG Torino Biennale, Torino, Italy.
2001 ‘we met at the bus stop’, Rijksakademie Open Ateliers,NL, 2001
2001 'trams taken and trams missed,' Muiderpoort, Amsterdam, NL.
2001 'trams taken and trams missed,' Piazza del Monte, Biella, Italy.
1993- 95 Various multimedia, classical and improvised theatre productions, including, ‘River’ dance theatre production, Jazz Art Dance Theatre, Grahamstown National Arts Festival.
Projects
2005 Very Real Time 2, Cape Town and Johannesburg South Africa.
2004 Background to a seduction, Roubaix, France.
2003 Very Real Time, Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue), www.veryrealtime.co.za
2002 PARK4DTV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2001 Gasworks Studios and Gallery, London, GB, 'The Lovephones in London.’
1999 Cape Talk Public Art Project, Cape Town, SA.
1998 UCT Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, SA, 'Childhood,' an installation in collaboration with Mustafa Maluka, Ice and Sky 1.
1994-98 Cape Town Arts Committee, Cape Town, SA, '4 Murals, Long Street Baths.'
Publications
2004 The tourist, images and text, Gregg Smith, designed by Sara de Bondt, printed by de Keure, Brugge, Belgium.
2004 Very Real Time, edited by Gregg Smith, designed by Sara de Bondt, printed by de Keure, Brugge, Belgium.
Residencies/fellowships/stipends/awards
2005 Artist in residence, Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France.
2002-04 Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France.
2002 Uriot Committee Prize, Rijksakademie Open Studios 2002.
2002 Vienna Festwochen, Young Director’s Workshop, Vienna, Austria.
2001 Cittadellarte, University of the Idea, Pistoletto Foundation, Biella, Italy.
2001 Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Johannesburg, SA
2001 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, NL
2001 Harry Crossley Foundation Trust, Cape Town, South Africa
2001 National Art Council, South Africa
2000 Year of the Artist Residency Programme, London Arts Board, National Lottery, Visiting Arts, GB
Lecture
2005 Maps- Master of Art in Public Sphere, Ecole Cantonale D’Art du Valais, Sierre Switzerland.
2005 Paris 8, workshop with Jean Francois Perec.
2004 Intervention, Ecole de Beaux Arts du Havre, Normandy, France.
2000 Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, SA, 'Senior replacement lecturer in painting.'