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BIOGRAPHY

CLIFFORD SMITH (b. 1951)

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Clifford Smith was born in Passaic, New Jersey in 1951. He earned his BS degree in 1973 at Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, Connecticut, and his MFA degree in 1979 at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Smith now resides in New Hampshire.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007                Outside, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Ranton, FL
                        Clifford Smith, Spanierman Modern, New York
                        Studies, Lyceum Gallery, Derryfield School, Manchester, NH
2006                Oceans Ten, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2005                Sound and Earth, Etherington Fine Art, Vineyard Haven, MA
2004                Sound Waves, Etherington Fine Art, Vineyard Haven, MA
                        Land and Sea, with Taliaferro Jones, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2003                Recent Paintings, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
                        On Paper, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
                        Land, Sea and Time, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples, FL
2002                New York, The Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA
2001                Sea See, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
                        Recent Paintings, The Art Center at Hargate, St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH
2000                Saltwater Works, The McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
1999                Recent Paintings, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1996                Saltwater, The Art Gallery at New England College, Henniker, NH
1995                Ten Years of Landscape Painting, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
1994                Spatial Evidence, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1992                The Hackensack River Paintings, Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickenson University, Hackensack, NJ
1991                Revealing Nature, The Hupert Union Building, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
1988                Recent Paintings,Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1979                “Thesis Exhibition,” Higgins Hall Gallery,
                        Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007                On Paper, Spanierman Modern, New York
2006                Year in Review, Scott White Contemporary Art, Sand Diego, CA
                        The Spirit of the Forest, The McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH
                        Fire and Ice: 2006 Summer International, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
                        RE-Opening Exhibition, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005                12th Annual Realism Invitational Exhibition, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
                        Twelve Contemporary Artists III, Spanierman at East Hampton, New York
                        Land, Sand and Time, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples, FL
                        Cultivating Landscape, Scott White Contemporary Art   
2004                Gallery Artists, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
                        Along the Shoreline, Coolidge Center of the Arts, Portsmouth, NH
                        Art from the Start, State University of New York-Orange, Middletown, NY
                        Patton Miller, Clifford Smith, Gaven Ziegler and Diane Mayo, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2003                Contemporary Currents: Eccentric Landscape, University of
                        Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2002                Cross Pollination/Gallery to Gallery, Gallery Henoch and J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
                        Springscapes, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                        East End Views, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
                        H20hhh, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples, FL
                        Re-presenting Representation V, Arnot Museum of Art, Elmira, NY
2001                Land and Seascape, Etherington Fine Art, Vineyard Haven, MA
                        By the Sea, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY     
                        Salt, Sun & Time, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples, FL
                        Holiday Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2000                New England Views: Real and Imagined – The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition, The Currier Gallery of Art,                         Manchester, NH
                        Gallery Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
                        Gone Fishin, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1999                The Merrimack College Collection, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
                        Summer Invitational Exhibition, The Ralls Collection, Washington D.C.
1998                Coast to Coast: The Contemporary Landscape in Florida, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
                        Spectrum 1998, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
1997                Invitational Exhibition, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1995                Quest for Unity: The Landscape, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
1994                Everglades-River of Glass, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
                        A Diversity of Views, Artists Look at the Land, The American College, Bryn Mawr, PA
                        GAIA: A New Look at Art on Earth, Gallery North, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
                        Heartland, Broden Gallery LTD., Madison, WI
1991                Painting: New Jersey, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
1990                New Talent and Others, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1988                Metro 88, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
1987                Art and the Law, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
1986                New Talent in American Landscape, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1984                Los Angeles Olympics Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, CA
1978                Lines of Scrimmage, Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH

                       
AWARDS

2000                New Hampshire Arts Council Fellowship
1979                Teaching Assistantship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

American Stock Exchange, New York, NY
Arthur Andersen & Company, Chicago, IL
Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ
Compensation Funds of New Hampshire, Bow, NH
Concord Hospital, Concord, NH
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebenon, NH
Fairleigh Dickenson University, Teanech, NJ
Fidelity Investments, Merrimack, NH
Great Lakes Beverage Company, Detroit, MI
John Hancock Insurance Company, Boston, MA
Hogan and Hartsman, Washington, D.C.
Illinois Bell Telephone, Chicago, IL
Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
New Boston Central School, New Boston, NH
New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH
Norfolk Southern Corporation, Houston, TX
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN
Saint Paul’s School, Concord, NH
Texas Air Incorporated, Houston, TX
United Assets Management Incorporated, Boston, MA
Yale University, New Haven, CT

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