Lionel Smit
Lionel Smit
Lionel Smit is a South African artist who operates a remarkable studio just outside of Cape Town wherein he pursues his craft in all manner of media with areas dedicated to sculpture, painting, and printmaking.
Smit and his talented team produce works that blur the boundaries among these media, and installed throughout the large spaces are works from earlier in the artist’s career, as if reminding him where he has been and guiding him into new realms of endeavor.
Lionel Smit is considered one of South Africa’s most talented artists, best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures.
'Reposition' - July 17th - August 23th - Uitstalling Art Gallery
Lionel Smit Art Exhibitions:
2019
Destructure, solo exhibition, Everard Read, London
Art Central, .M Contemporary, Hong Kong
2018
Divide, solo exhibition, ARTLIFE, Los Angeles
Obscura, solo exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
2017
Emerge, solo exhibition, .M Contemporary, Sydney
State, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
Exposed, public installation, Helen Day Art Center, Vermont
Influx, public installation, Cynthia-Reeves, Rhode Island
Premise, solo exhibition, Circa, Cape Town
Art Central, .M Contemporary, Hong Kong
Faces of Identity, solo exhibition, Everard Read, London
2016
Faces, solo exhibition, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki
New Release, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
Morphous, public installation, Union Square, New York
Cape Town Art Fair, Everard Read, Cape Town
Trace, solo exhibition, Rook & Raven, New York
Obscura 2, solo exhibition, Rook & Raven, London
Art16, Rook & Raven, London
Echo, solo exhibition, Cynthia-Reeves, MASS MoCA Campus, Massachusetts
2015
Art Miami, featured artist, Cynthia-Reeves, Miami
Recurrence, solo exhibition, .M Contemporary, Sydney
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read, Johannesburg
Cumulus, solo exhibition, Rook & Raven, London
Fugitive Identity, group exhibition, Cynthia-Reeves, MASS MoCA Campus, Massachusetts
Close/Perspective, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
Origins, solo exhibition, Rook & Raven, London
Obscura, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town
Art Central Hong Kong, featured artist, Rook & Raven, Hong Kong
Accumulation of Disorder, solo exhibition, Independent Art Projects, MASS MoCA Campus, Massachusetts
2014
Art Taipei, The Cat Street Gallery, Taiwan
Contronym, solo exhibition, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Morphous, solo exhibition, Circa, Johannesburg
2013
Art Miami, featured artist, Cynthia-Reeves, Miami
IS Sculpture, solo exhibition, IS Art, Tokara, Stellenbosch
Strarta, Saatchi Gallery, Rook & Raven, London
Fragmented, solo exhibition, Rook & Raven, London
Accumulation, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
BP Portrait Award 2013, group exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London
Wonder Works, group exhibition, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Metalwork: Public Art in Stellenbosch, group exhibition, Stellenbosch
2012
Compendium, solo exhibition, 34FineArt, Cape Town
Accumulation of Disorder, solo exhibition, University of Stellenbosch Gallery, Stellenbosch
Strata, solo exhibition, Rook & Raven, London
India Art Fair, Robert Bowman Gallery, Delhi
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read, Johannesburg
2011
Surface, solo exhibition, Artspace, Johannesburg
ArtMonaco 2011, 34FineArt, Monaco
2010
Out of the Office, group exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum
Art Miami, featured artist, Cynthia-Reeves, Miami
We Are Not Witches, group exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London
Submerge, solo exhibition, 34FineArt, Cape Town
2009
F.A.C.E.T., charity auction, Christie’s, London
Relate, solo exhibition, Grande Provence, Franschhoek
