Henry Smith is an artist, designer, and educator. Working at an intersection of many media, Smith’s practice is based in crafting spaces and experiences, organizing events, and generating communal conversation opportunities through images and objects.

Focused primarily in print, sculpture, and social practice, Smith explores channels and venues of community-building and information exchange. Many of the same rhetorical vehicles are utilized across his practice of design and his personal art practice. 

Smith was born and raised in the Midwest. He is based in Austin, Texas.

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Current Employment:

The University of Texas at Austin, School of Design & Creative Technologies — 2019-Present

Education:

          The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art & Art History — BFA in Studio Art, 2017

          Glasgow School of Art, International Affiliate Program — Spring 2016

          Ox-Bow School of Art — Summer 2014 

Exhibitions:

Transmission — Partial Shade, Austin, TX | 2019

Texas Toast — Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX | 2019

Extra Medium — Pump Project, Austin, TX | 2019

Gold Tape — University of Texas Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX | 2018          

Hotbox Open Studios Exhibition  —  MASS Gallery, Austin, TX | 2017

          Teeter — University of Texas Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX | 2017          

          25% EXTRA — Laurieston Arches, Glasgow, UK | 2016        

Residencies:

          MASS Gallery — Hotbox Residency 2017 — Austin, TX

Grants & Awards:

         Carol Chiles Ballard Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Studio Art, 2016 — The University of Texas

         Anne Marie Adonyi Endowed Scholarship in Art, 2016 — The University of Texas    

         Professional Development Travel Grant, 2015  — The University of Texas 

         Summer Program Scholarship Recipient, 2014 — Ox-Bow School of Art