About The Artist

Education Rhode Island School of Design Providence Rhode Island, USA MFA Sculpture 1986 Trent Polytechnic Nottingham, England BFA Honors, First Class 1981 Cardiff Art College Cardiff, Wales Foundation Year 1977-78 Awards Dorland Colony Resident Dorland Mountain Art Colony, Temecula, CA 1992-93 Ucross Foundation Fellow Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, 1991 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 1990 Artist Fellowship Artist Fellowship, Inc., New York, 1990 Rauschenberg Foundation Grant Change Inc. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 1990 Second Place Texas Art Celebration '89, Houston, 1989 Juror's Prize Synergy Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, 1986-88 Teaching Assistant Award Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, 1984-86 Study Abroad Grant Mid Glamorgan Trust Fund, Cardiff, Wales, 1984-86 Starter Grant East Midland Arts, England, 1982 Solo Exhibitions GVG Gallery Houston, Texas, 1989 Group Exhibitions "Learning by Doing, 25 years of the Core Program at the MFAH" Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, 2008 "Issues of Choice" LACE, Los Angeles, CA, 1992 "Singular and Plural, Recent Accessions, Drawings and Prints" Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1992 "Miller, Smith, Ward" Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991 Group Exhibition West End Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991 "Sid Y Vida" Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, 1991 "Extrapolations" Toni Jones Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991 "Direct References: Drawings by Texas Artists" Glassell School of Art, MFAH, 1990 "Austin Annual '90" Mexic-Arte, Austin, Texas, 1990 "Landscapes" Site Specific Sculpture Exhibition, Buffalo Bayou, Houston 1990 "A View from the Bridge" Tree beard Gallery, Houston, 1990 "Tradition and innovation: A Museum celebration of Texas Art" Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 1990 "Women View Women" Women and their work, Austin, 1990 "Instruments for Improvement" The Axiom, Houston, 1990 Bayou Queen Performance Diverse Works, St Joseph's School, Houston, 1989 Texas Art Celebration '89 Houston Assistance League 1989 selected by Alison de Lima Greene Houston Area Show Blaffer Gallery, Houston, 1988 selected by Edward and Nancy Kieinholtz and Richard Koshalek "Directions and Diversity" Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 1988 "Media Whore Performance" The Axiom, Houston, 1988 collaboration with Dean Chachere Synergy Collection Show Transco Tower, Houston, 1988 Core Residency Exhibition Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston, 1988 Houston '88 Houston Arts Dealer Association, Houston 1988 selected by Juror's invitation Synergy Exhibition - Juries' Prize Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston, 1988 Twenty First Juried Exhibition Jewish Community Center, Houston, 1987 selected by Mary Jane Jacobs, Honorable Mention Core Residency Exhibition Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston, 1987 Art Assistance League Exhibition Houston, 1987 selected by John Caldwell MFA Thesis Exhibition Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island, 1986 Exchange Exhibition Brown University/RISD, Rhode Island, 1986 Graduate Group Exhibition Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island, 1985 Small Works Exhibition Wheeler Gallery, Rhode Island, 1984 Group Exhibition Kingsgate Workshop, London, England, 1983 Group Exhibition The Midland Group, Nottingham, England, 1982 BFA Thesis Exhibition Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England, 1981 Commissions Six Park Tile Murals City of La Verne, La Verne, CA, 2001-2006 Tile Mural - Roynon Elementary Bonita School District, La Verne, CA, 2001 Glass Mural and Donor Wall Temple Beth Israel, Houston, 1987 Collections Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas Synergy Collection Houston, Texas San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio, Texas Edward Albee Foundation Private Collections WEBSITE http://wendysmithartist.com