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.'