Biography
Edith Smith -- www.Ems-Art.com
Selected One Person Shows of Paintings and Graphics:
St. Marks Gallery, Palo Alto, Acrylic paintings and watercolors, 2006-07
St. Marks Gallery, Palo Alto, Shaped mixed Media Paintings with digital collage, 2006, 2004
Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA, 2005, 2001
Palo Alto Library, 2005, 2003, 2002
Peninsula Y.W.C.A., Palo Alto, CA, 2001
"Thirty Years of Computer Art," Norton Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, 2000
Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, 2000, 1996
Coyote Point Museum, San Mateo, CA, 1997
Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Stanford University, 1993
Foothill College, CA: Shaped Paintings, 1989
Bechtel International Center, Stanford University, 1984
Colgate University, New York, 1982
Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art, 1980
CCRMA, Stanford University, 1980
Galerie Dautzenberg 76, Brussels, Belgium, 1978
Palo Alto Civic Center, 1977
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, 1976
Dominican College, San Rafael, 1976
Richard Sumner Gallery, Palo Alto, 1974
Jason Aver Gallery, San Francisco, 1971
Gallery House, Palo Alto, 1971 and 1968
Artists' Gallery, New York City, 1957 and 1954
Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, 1956
Baldwin Kingrey, Chicago, 1955
Oakland Art Museum, 1952
Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France 1949
Daliel's Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 1948
Selected Group Exhibits of Paintings and Graphics:
Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, 2006
Los Altos Library, 2006, 2007
Pearce Mitchell, Stanford Univ., 2006
MacroMedia Center, San Francisco, 2005
San Francisco City Hall, 2004
San Francisco Main Library, 2003
Tressider Union, Stanford University, 2003
Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1994, Award of Merit, 2002
San Francisco Yerba Buena Center, 2002
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, 2001
Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2001, 1998
Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, 1999
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Ind., 1999
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1999
University of Hawaii: Computer Etchings, 1999
Galeria Tonanzin, San Juan Bautista, CA: "Self Portraits", 1999
Robert Williams American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, 1998
551 Gallery, San Francisco, 1998
Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, 1997
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA, 1995, 1985
Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, 1995, 1993, 1990; Gallery Committee Prize 1995
"Global Focus: Women in Art & Culture," U.N. International Conference on Women,
Beijing, 1995
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: Women & Age, 1995; CADRE Exhibit, 1984
Studio Gallery, Binghampton, NY, 1997, 1995, 1994
Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth, DE, 1995
San Jose Art League: Computer Art & Music Collaboration, 1994
Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994
Seipp Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, 1994, 1993, 1986
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, 1994
Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA, 1993
Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, 1993
Cal. State University, Bakersfield, 1993
University of Idaho, Boise, ID, 1993, 1992
Berkeley Art Center, 1992
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, 1992, 1991
Napa Art Center, International Mini-Print Exhibit, 1992, 1991
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 1991
"Issue Earth," Loma Linda University, Riverside, CA, 1991
Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, 1991, 1990
Philadelphia Print Club (Computer Etchings), 1989
University of Indiana Gallery of Art, 1989
Brandts Klaede-Fabrik, Odense, Denmark, 1989
"TIME/Paradigm Shift": Kingston Art Gallery and publication; Kingston, Ont., Canada,1988
California Prints/North/South: Mills College, CA, 1988
Pratt Institute: "High Tech/High Touch," Schaffler Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1988; Pratt
Manhattan, 1987
Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1987
Gallery Shoh, Tokyo, Japan, 1985
University of Oregon: "On the Leading Edge," 1984
World Print Council Gallery, San Francisco, 1983, 1982
Palo Alto Cultural Center: 1979, 1978, 1977
De Young Museum, "Artist's Proof: The Multiple Image," San Francisco, 1976
Galerie Rene Breheret, Paris France, 1972
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City: "Annual Watercolor Invitational, 1957
University of Illinois: "American Painting & Sculpture," 1957 & 1955
Art Institute of Chicago: "Painters of Chicago and Vicinity" 1956
Denver Art Museum: "Western Painters Invitational" 1955
Landau Gallery, Los Angeles: "Six California Painters" 1954
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1953, 1952, 1949, 1948; Artists' Council Prize 1953
Kootz Gallery, New York City, "New Talent", selected by Clement Greenberg. 1950
California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1950
Galerie St. Placide, Paris, France: With Roland Chevanon 1949
Member: California Society of Printmakers, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, San Francisco Woman Artists, Woman's Caucus for Art.
Who's Who in America, 2005, 2002, 2000
Who's Who of American Woman, 2003, 2001, 1996
Lifetime Achievement Award, Woman's Caucus for Art, 1996
Artist-Writer Critics' Award, for 1994: Best Artists' Collaboration ("Goddess Continuum")
Education: B.A. and M.A. in Art, University of California, Berkeley. Ann Brenner Memorial Fellowship in Art.
President, Delta Epsilon, Art Honor Society and Pi Lambda Theta, Education Honor Society. Studies at Calif. College of Arts and Crafts and at l'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris. Studies in etching and lithography with Richard Graff, S.F. Art Institute, 1968-70. Studies of all gravure techniques, Atelier Calevaert-Brun, Paris, France, parts of 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981.
Teaching Experience:
1972-1996: Instructor, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, Calif.
-- teaching printmaking, drawing, painting, and watercolor.
Instructor, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, 1961-64, 1967-71, 81 to 2001.
-- teaching painting, advanced critique class (all 2D mediums).
Lecturer, University College and Department of Humanities, University of Chicago.
-- taught art appreciation and art history. 1956-58
Instructor, Art Institute of Chicago, Education Department.
-- seminars on contemporary art. 1956-58
Instructor, Faulkner School, Chicago
-- taught painting and art history. 1953-56
Instructor, Y.M.H.A., 92nd and Lexington, New York City
-- taught painting and drawing. 1950
Lecturer, Department of Decorative Art, University of California, Berkeley
-- taught design and color theory. 1947-48
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U.C. Berkeley