Barbara T. Smith

May 30

Biography

Born in Pasadena, California, 1931
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

1969-1971 University of California, Irvine
1965 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA (Emerson Woelfer, Conner Everts)
1949-1953 Pomona College, Claremont, CA, Cum Laude

Special study:
Workshops with Alex Hay '68, Steve Paxton '69, Zen study with Tich Tien-An, Shinzen Young '74-'80, Shamanism with Harley Swiftdeer Twylah Nitsch, Brandt Secunda, Michael Harner '84-'89, Iyengar Yoga '87-‘08

2024
Barbara T. Smith: Proof, The Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
2023
Barbara T. Smith: Proof, ICA LA, Los Angeles, CA The Way to Be, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Treasures, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2019
The 21st Century Odyssey, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Just Passing organized by Lisa Williamson, Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA Outside Chance, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Words, Sentences & Signs, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Smell of Almonds: Resin Works, 1968 – 1982, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Frieze Art Fair, exhibited by The Box, London, UK (Recipient of the Frieze Stand Prize)
2013
Xerox: Barbara T. Smith, 1965 – 1966, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2011
The Radicalizations of a ‘50s Housewife, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
2009
Old Shoes: Performance Relics, 1968 – 1975, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Barbara T. Smith: Early Performances, 1969 – 1976, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt
2008 - 2009
Barbara T. Smith: Early Work, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt
2008
Barbara T. Smith, 1965 – 1972, Maccarone, New York, NY
2007
Remnants, 1965 – 1972, The Box, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
2005
The 21st Century Odyssey part II: The Performances of Barbara T. Smith, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA and Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (catalog)
2003
Making Book, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1999
Blue Shards, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
1992
This Is It, Glenmoore Guest House, Dharamsala, India (meditation installation)
1990
Bottom Line, Highways, Santa Monica, CA
1989
Ground Zero, SPARC (Social Public Art Resource Center), Venice, CA (installation and performance) The Pageant of the Holy Squash: Creche, Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY
1988
A Meeting Ground, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
1987
Hunab Ku, Private home, San Francisco, CA (installation)
1985
Council of Elders, AAA Gallery, Michael Salerno, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Tree, Council, Template, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1982
Static Art by Performance Artists, ESPACE DBD/Rachel Rosenthal Company, Los Angeles, CA (photo/documentation, with Paul McCarthy)
1980
PUBLIC SPIRIT/LIVE ART Los Angeles Exhibitions:
The Perpetual Napkin, Vanguard Gallery (photography)
Piercing the Corporate Veil, American Hotel Gallery (photography)
1976
Dimensions, Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (installation)
1974
Retrospective exhibition curated by Moira Roth, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA (catalog) Xerox Works, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1971
Field Piece, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Field Piece, F-Space Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Celebration of the Holy Squash, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1970
Homage for Mark Rothko, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1966
YWCA, Pasadena, CA (sponsored by the Pasadena Art Museum)
1965
Auguste Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2023
Craft & Conceptual Art: Reshaping the Legacy of Artists’ Books, curated by Megan Liberty, Center for Book Arts, NY (traveling exhibition: San Francisco Center for Book Arts; Minnesota Center for Book Arts)
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982, curated by Leslie Jones, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2022
how we are in time and space: Nany Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, Barbara T. Smith, curated by Michael Ned Holte, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Let Me Talk, Brand Library & Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Holy Squash, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Red Wedding, RUSCHMAN, Chicago, IL
2020
50+50: A Creative Century from Chouinard to CalArts, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA (Recipient of Nelbert Chouinard Award)
2019
Open House: Elliott Hundley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Pond and Waterfall, co-organized with Julia Trotta, The Gallery @ Michael’s, Santa Monica, CA Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists, the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA Mother – Portraits in Petri Dishes, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art from the Whitney’s Collection, 1966 – 1986, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Impermanence, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Prospect 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, London, UK
Physical Mind Restless Hands, organized by Benedicte Gyldenstierne Sehested, Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Mommy, Yale Union, Portland, OR
Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, CA
A Performative Trigger: Radicals of Irvine, curated by Juli Carson and Marilyn Nix, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
Columbidae, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Independent Art Fair, exhibited by The Box, New York, NY
In Search of an Exit (or Eight Characters in a Parlor), USC Roski School of Art & Design at the Heritage Square Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Bakersfield, CA
2014
A Machinery for Living organized by Walead Beshty, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Great Expectations, Home of Daniel Milewski and Nina Johnson-Milewski, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
2013
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, IL
This Side of the 405 (featuring Hot Peppers), Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College, Los Angeles, CA Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Abstraction (Sound and Vision), California State University, Bakersfield, CA
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
2012
Painting, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
re.act.feminism #2 - A Performing Archive, Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark The Historical Box, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
Print Imprint, Actual Size LA, Los Angeles, CA
re.act.feminism #2 - A Performing Archive, Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
2011
The Historical Box, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964 – 1971, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Installations Inside/Out, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2008
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia, OCA (Office of Contemporary Art), Oslo, Norway
2007
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO Testaccio (MACRO Future), Rome, Italy
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980 – 2006, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art Since the ‘60s’: California Experiments, OCMA (Orange County Museum of Art), Newport Beach, CA
Maternal Metaphors, Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Passions de l’ete pour l’hiver. FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France
2006
Renegades 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, NY
Into Me / Out of Me, Kunst-Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Into Me / Out of Me, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Los Angeles 1955 - 1985: The Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d ́Art Moderne, Paris, France
2005
CoCA Annual 2005, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Seeking Eden, Crazy Space, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA (video)
High Performance: The First 5 Years, 1978 - 1982 curated by Jenni Sorkin, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA
2002
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
My Brother’s Image, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
Parallels & Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950 – 2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
High Performance: The First 5 Years, 1978 – 1982, George J. Doizaki Gallery, Dai Shikishi, JACCC, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Made in California: Art/Image & Identity, 1900 – 2000, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, CA
1999
BroadCast, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Eagle Rock, CA
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960 – 1974, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (catalog) To See Again, Collaboration with Anna Pomaska, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
1998
Out of Actions: Between Performance & the Object, 1947 – 1979, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA and MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria (tours MACBA, Barcelona, Spain and Tokyo, Japan)
Art & Nature, Rico Gallery Inc., Santa Monica, CA
1997
Better With Age, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dreams of Life and Death, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
1996
The Art Embodied, MAC Galleries Contemporaines des Musees de Marseille, France Photo Odyssey, Margaret Crow Gallery, Pasadena, CA
The Woman's Eye, Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, CA
1995
Endurance, Exit Art, New York, NY
1994
Who Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? (with Hirokasu Kosaka; includes collaborations with S. Pinkel, J. Williamson, G. Cowan, S. Stuart, U. Birkoff), The New Gallery and 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Go Down Stairs Diagonally, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Amazing Decade Revisited, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
1990
Modern Buddhist Art II, Hofheim, West Germany Nomadic, Sullivant Hall, Ohio State University, OH
1989
A Delicate Balance: Technics, Culture & Consequences, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970 – 1985, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH (traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) (catalog)
1988
Art at Pomona, 1887 – 1987, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA (catalog)
The Goddess: Life, Death and Transformation, SPARC (Social Public Art Resource Center), Los Angeles, CA
1987
A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Book Works: The Last Five Years, Otis College, Los Angeles, CA and Parsons, New York, NY
Pacific Oaks School Benefit Exhibit and Auction, Pacific Oaks Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1983
LACE Open Studio Tour
End of the Rainbow, SPARC (Social Public Art Resource Center), Los Angeles, CA
1982
Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1981
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1980
A Decade of Women's Performance, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Dirty Pictures. Exile, Los Angeles, CA
The Art of The Woman's Building, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL and The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA The Art of The Woman’s Building, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
1979 - 1981
Electroworks, George Eastman House and Xerox Corporation, Rochester, NY (catalog)
1978
100+: Current Directions in Contemporary Art, LAICA (Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, CA Only Women Bleed, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA
1977
Visions, Dreams, Illusions, University of California, Davis, CA
The Artist's Book, University of California, San Diego, CA
Bookworks, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Art Stories, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1976
The Great Egg Sale, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1975
The Irvine Milieu, La Jolla Museum, San Diego, CA (catalog)
UCI: The First Decade, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA Pasadena in L.A., California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1974
The Floating Wall Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Art and Technology, California Institute of Technology, CA
1973
Newspace Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Conceptual Art Show, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA Museum of Drawers, Berne, Switzerland
1972
Small Image Show, California State University, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Books from Southern California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
The Last Plastics Show, California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA
21 Artists, Visible-Invisible, LBMA (Long Beach Museum of Art), Long Beach, CA (catalog) New Art from Orange County, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog) Survivors '72, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Graduate Exhibition, University of California, Irvine, CA
1971
How the West was Won, Fresno State College, Fresno, CA (catalog)
1970
Drawing and Performance, USC E.A.T. SHOW, University of California, Irvine, CA Small Image Show, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Scratch, Pacific Oaks School Benefit, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1969
Easter Event, Brookside Park, Pasadena, CA
1965
People Who Should Be Seen, LACMA Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Performances
2020-2021
“A Walk in the Park”, Pasadena, CA
2009
“Hold Your Mud, L.A.”, Highways, Santa Monica, CA “A Meditation on Time”, Women’s Caucus for Art, LA
2006
“A Meditation on Time”, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
“A Meditation on Time”, UCSD Memorial for Allan Kaprow, San Diego, CA
2005
“A Meditation on Time”, Ohio University, Athens, OH
“A Meditation on Time”, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
2003
“Making Book” residency & performance, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
2001
“Kaleidoscope” with 7 older women artists, UCLA Hammer Museum. WCA: BOLD, YOUNG & OLD: WOMEN IN THE ARTS Symposium, Los Angeles, CA
“Am I Blue?”, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
“The Runaway”, Side Street LIVE, Los Angeles, CA
1999
"The Witness", The Armory, Pasadena RADICAL PAST: CONTEMPORARY ART & MUSIC IN PASADENA 1960-74, Pasadena, CA
1998
Fais Do-do, L.A "Into the Red" Dinner event for Beyond the Pink Festival artists/ MOCA show, Los Angeles, CA
1996
"Tales of the Odyssey" with Anna Pomaska, Margaret Crow Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1993
"Odysseus Blind Date" with Biosphere2 & ECI, Gronland Grenhus, Oslo, Norway
"21st Century Odyssey World Report", 911 Video art space
Women's Caucus for Art Convention, Seattle, WA
"Valentine's to Biosphere 2 & ECI", San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (workshop)
1992
"World Report from the 21st Century Odyssey", Electronic Cafe International (ECI)
"This Is My Calling,” Bluff- Above Sydney and Resource Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia ECI "Fundraising Superbowl"
1991
"Love and Other Pressing Issues", Ocean Park Beach and Electronic Cafe Int.
1990
"Improper Meditations" with Roy Walford, Highways, Santa Monica, CA "Communications Practicum 101", Ohio State University, Columbus, OH "Big Bang", Wexner Center for Visual Arts, OSU
1989
"Parallel Journeys I & II", Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ "Ground Zero", SPARC, Venice, CA
1988
"Pageant of the Holy Squash: Creche", Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY
"Pageant of the Holy Squash: Ceremony", Streets of the Bronx and Harlem, NY
1986
"The Cauldron", BTS Garden, Venice, CA
"The Cauldron", University of Victoria, British Columbia.
"Sheer Cliffs and Natural Bridges", University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
"Sheer Cliffs and Natural Bridges", School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985
"Transmission" (performance for video) w/Liz Rymland, Lhasa Club, Los Angeles , CA
"Rainbow Bleed", UCLA Student Committee for the Arts series, ACTIVE MODERN WOMEN IN THE ARTS "Winter Solstice Ritual", Zuma Beach, CA
1984
“Tree” installation, Capp St. Project, San Francisco, CA "Council" (a community ceremony)
"Template" (three-week ceremonial retreat)
1983
"Shatterhouse", Space Available, Denver, CO
"Food", Center for Idea Art, Denver, CO
"Conjuring the Crone", Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA "So, What's That About", Metropolis, Los Angeles, CA
"One Mind", Dorland Mountain Colony, Temecula, CA
1982
"1,000 Small Fires", Berlin, West Germany "Quintessential Mu", The House, Santa Monica, CA "Mother/Me", Malibu, CA
1981
"Birthdaze" Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Including Victor Henderson, Allan Kaprow, Paul McCarthy, Kim Jones “Winter Solstice Ritual for Susanna Dakin”, private Malibu residence
"Luck be a Lady", Espace DBD, Los Angeles, CA
"The Perpetual Napkin", University of Chicago Renaissance Society & Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL “Visual Fundamentals”, UCLA/ Performance class, Los Angeles, CA
1979
"Watching Her Go", Rosebud Hall, Pasadena. (memorial for Margaret Turner)
1978
"It's Either Him or Me”, Artist's Studio, with Allan Kaprow, Dick Kilgroe, and Ed Miller
"A Negotiation", Chapman College
"Nada, Nada, Nada", Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1977
"The Round Table", UCSD conference, THE USE OF THEATER IN ART AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC, San Diego, CA "Ordinary Life, Part II", 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
"Ordinary Life, Part I", LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
1976
“The Absent Lover”, Cal State Dominguez Hills, CA
"Personal Attraction", Judaeca, Venice, Italy
"The Cloistered Study", Johnston College
"Hey Big Brother, One at a Time", Johnston College
"I Am Not Lost but Hidden", Johnston College
"A Week in the Life of . . ." a performance auction. Pasadena Artists' Concern Gallery, CA "Scan I", Grandview I & II Galleries, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA
1974
"Full Jar Empty Jar", UCSD, San Diego, CA
"I Am the Medium", Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, CA
"Cross Fire", ARTISTS & ADVOCATES BALL, Los Angeles, CA
"Intimations of Immortality", Grandview I & II Galleries, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA
1973
"The Longest Day of Night", Artist's Studio.
"Pure Food", Costa Mesa, CA.
"Sometimes You Don't Have to Do Anything", Loguidice Gallery, New York, NY "Suspension", California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1972
"Trajectory", Laguna Beach, CA
"Morning Watch" (for Moira Roth), Newport Beach, CA
"Guerrilla Capers" Selected sites, Los Angeles, CA
"The Fisherman IS the Fish" (catalog), F-Space Gallery, Santa Ana, sponsored by the Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA "Nude Frieze", F-Space Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1971
"Light Watch"/ “Field Piece” w/ talk by Dr. H. Arp, camera, F-Space Gallery and Newport Beach marshland "Celebration of the Holy Squash" (with installation), University of California, Irvine, CA
"White Meal for Wesley Duke Lee", Newport Beach, CA
"Freeway Map", U.S. Mail
"Assignments", Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA
1969
"Fire Rings" (part I of a triptych), Newport Beach, CA
"Mass Meal" (part II of a triptych), Artist's Studio
"Plots" (part III of a triptych), Selected sites, CA
"The Masked God", The Walrus, Venice, CA
"Ritual Meal", Home of Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, Los Angeles, CA
2014
“Wrestling”, Step and Repeat at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2009
“A Meditation on Time”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena. 20 yr, Anniv,
2008
“Mop”, Karriere Bar, Copnhagen, Denmark
“A Meditation on Time”, ART IN THE PARK Jefferson City, Mo
“A Meditation on Time”, Outpost for Contemp. Art. Julie Leguin curBismuthator “Mop”, Kerriere Bar, Copenhagen, Denmark Julien Bismuth/curator
2007
“A Meditation on Time”, MULTIPLE VANTAGE POINTS, Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA
2006
“A Meditation on Time”, UCSD Memorial for Allan Kaprow
2004
“My Recent Trip”, LA QUINCEANERAS, Highways 15 Yr. Anniversary
2001
“ICU” (Intensive Care Unit), THE GATHERING, Highways. Artists response to 9/11
1999
"Spirit Guide", ESCONDIDO PHOENIX '99: Patricia Watts, curator. Escondido Canyon, Malibu.
1998
BEYOND THE PINK, organized by Denise Spampinato & Gary Todd
"Out of Actions: Between Performance & the Object: 1949 -1979” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA "Out of the River, She..." EWALA '98 Trek L. A. River, with B. Smith, director.
1996
BALLONA WETLANDS RALLY, Grandmother's Circle Ceremony w/ coalition of 68 environmental orgs
1996
PERFORMANCE ART OLYMPICS, Highways Benefit. Bronze medal award
1990
"Out of the River, She. . ." (at Los Angeles River), LOS ANGELES OPEN FESTIVAL, with Hallowed Aire Ritual Players (HARP) "Blue Shadows", SPRING PAPAYA BARK, Ohio State University
1989
"Moon Reflection", ART AND THE INVISIBLE REALITY, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (at Franklin Furnace)
1988
"Seed Readings", SHOSHANA WAYNE GALLERY, Benefit for Santa Monica City Council Democratic Slate
1986
"The Cauldron", LA COMIDA DEL ARTE, festival of food-related performance art, Venice, CA.
1984
"Talking a Blue Streak" (SFAI), POLYPHONIX, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LANGUAGE AND PERFORMANCE. Sponsored by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cinematheque, and Intersection.
"So What's That About?", GOLD COAST PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL (SFAI). Curated by Linda Burnham
1983
"Shatterhouse" with Liz Rymland, AT HOME SHOW, Long Beach Museum of Art with Liz Rymland "Vera and Victoria", SEQUENTIA SALON with Nancy Page
1982
"1,000 Small Fires", TARGET L.A., Alliance for Survival.
"The Alien Ambassador" (catalog), '60-'80 SHOW, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1981
"Breaking Barriers", PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY "The Perpetual Napkin”, PERFORMANCE NOW AND THEN series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1980
PUBLIC SPIRIT/LIVE ART L.A. series
Vanguard Gallery: "The Perpetual Napkin"
American Hotel Gallery: "Piercing the Corporate Veil" Private home: Altadena: "Light Wait"
1978
“An Experiment with Glasses”, UCSD College of Musical Experiment. WHAT’S COOKIN FESTIVAL
"A Negotiation", AN EVENING OF PERFORMANCE WORKS. Sponsored by Double XX, Los Angeles "Fish Tales", LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS (LACE) SHIRO IKEGAWA BENEFIT
1977
"Pucker Painting", The Woman's Building/College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles
1976
"The Cover Up", AMERICAN THEATER ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
1975
“An Experiment with Glasses” w/ Richard Newton, UCSD, San Diego, CA
“Live Birds on the Wing” with Barbara Gibson, Johnston College, Redlands
"What Do Dogs Say When They Bark?", The Woman's Building Performance Conference "Kiss A Spot Forbidden", University of Nevada, Las Vegas, CA
1974
"To Draw Together", The Floating Wall Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA.
1973
"The Bird Flies", Womanspace, Los Angeles. Inaugural show
"Feed Me", ALL NIGHT SCULPTURES, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco
1972
"The Bird Flies", SURVIVORS '72. Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA "The Way to Be", SURVIVORS '72. Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1969
"Weightless", A CELEBRATION OF THE APOLLO MOON LANDING. Sponsored by Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT), Cal Tech, CA
"Faces", TRANSPARENCIES. UCSD, San Diego, CA
1968
"One Minute", ONE EVENING. Old L.A. Conservatory of Music "Snails", ONE EVENING. Old L.A. Conservatory of Music "Scurvey Knave", ONE EVENING. Old L.A. Conservatory of Music
2020
“No Words” with Susanna Knittel
PPE • People’s Power Enhancement billboard project by Molly Surazhsky with Hunter Shaw Fine Art Galler
This Earth film by Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers for Create Art for Earth initiative organized by Judy Chicago.
2016
“Drifting Down the River Styx: A Poetic Walkabout” with Simone Forti & Mike Mollett, October 28 at The Box, Los Angeles, CA Untitled with Corazon del Sol, part of Mutant Salon: Festival De Las Muertas, October 30 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014
“What You Need To Know” with Corazon del Sol, Kate Johnson, Kate Crash & Thea Boyanowsky. May 9 at Highways, Santa Monica, CA
2012
“A Window Between Worlds” I Can: a Requiem for I Can’t with Nina Jun
2008
Reinvention/ “Incorporate” called “Give & Take” by Felis Stella & Tenichia Terrell, LACE 30th ANNIVERSARY SHOW, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2001
“Listen”, with Aviva Rahmani, Arts Center at Kingdom Falls (Waterfall Arts), Montville, ME
2000
“Wetlands Soundscape” with Jan Williamson and S. Suntree, Earth Day 2000, USC, Los Angeles, CA
1999
"Where the River Meets the Sea", soundscape with Jan Williamson, H.H. Dalai Lama, Earthways: World Festival of Sacred Music, Del Rey Lagoon
“More Tales of the Odyssey” with Anna Pomaska, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
1991-1993
“21st Century Odyssey” with Barbara T. Smith, Roy L. Walford, and Electronic Cafe International
Two year durational time-based journey by Barbara T. Smith with media links with Walford in Bioshpere 2 & Electronic Cafe International
1993
Teaching: Humboldt State, CSU Summer Arts; UCSD: Lecturer, Performance History; San Francisco State University, visiting artist
1992-1993
Lectures: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; CCAC, S.F; Sonoma State; Mills; October Gallery, London
1991-1993
Performances: Beach & ECI, “Love and Other Pressing Issues”; ECI “Fundraising Suprebowl”; Glenmoor Guest House, Dharamsala, India, “This is It”; Vajra Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal, "Pouring Out My Heart"; Electronic Cafe International & Biosphere 2, “First Biosphere2 Arts Festival”; Bangkok, Thailand, “Media Report”; University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, “This Is My Calling”; Electronic Cafe International, “World Report”; San Francisco State University, “Valentine to Biosphere 2 & Electronic Cafe International”; WCA & 911, Seattle, “Ritual Cleansing of the Airwaves,” October Gallery, London, “Scavenger Hunt”; Oslo, Norway, “Odysseus’ Blind Date”
1991
“The R and B Show” with Roy Walford, Highways, Santa Monica, CA
1990-1991
"Barbara T. Smith from Grand Cayman Island", Santa Monica. Second Annual Electronic Cafe International. New Year's Eve Round-the-World Media Link
1990
"Brook" with OSU students, Whetstone Park, Columbus, OH "Out of the River, She. . ." with HARP, Los Angeles River
1989-1990
"Barbara T. Smith from New York". Santa Monica. First Annual Electronic Cafe International, directed by Barbara T. Smith New Year's Eve Round-the-World Media Link
1989
"Seed" California Men's Conference, Malibu
"Seed" with HARP, directed by Barbara T. Smith, Punta Piuma Ranch, Malibu
1988
"Radial Landspeak" with Marsha Adams, University of Redlands. In a dry riverbed, Mentone, CA
1985
"Autumnal Equinox" with David Dunn and others, Angel's Gate Cultural Center
"Ritual of Quetzalcoatl" Ojai Foundation, Ojai. With Jose and Lloydine Arguelles, Adele Getty, Joan Halifax, Francis Huxley, Colleen Kelley, Robert Ott.
"The Give Away" with Liz Rymland, Artist's Studio
1984
"Template/Paper Skin" with Coco Gordon Capp St. Project, San Francisco
Participants included Stephen Cummings, Betsy Damon, Simone Forti, Ann Hatch, Ray Johnson, Alison Knowles, Linda Montano, Liz Rymland, Arlene Schloss, Sandra and Rowenna Semchuk
"Garden Cuttings" with Coco Gordon, New York, NY
1983
"What if Later...Savage?" with Bill Gian, The Dakin Machine, Venice, CA
"Shatterhouse" with Liz Rymland, Long Beach Museum AT HOME SHOW, simultaneously performed at Space Available, Denver
1980
"Hunger Strike" with Leslie Labowitz and Faith Wilding, CAA/WCA (College Art Association/Women's Caucus for Art) Convention, New Orleans, LA
1978
"On Location", LAICA, NEW ARTSPACES CONFERENCE.
Tour bus piece including works by Nancy Buchanan, Linda Burnham, Vanalyne Green, Charles Hill, Suzanne Lacy, Richard Newton, the Feminist Art Workers, the Kipper Kids, Mother Art, the Waitresses
"Incorporate" with Suzanne Lacy, LACE, DOUBLE XX+
"The Vigil" with Suzanne Lacy, University of California, Irvine, CA
"Barbara Smith performs with Dead Dog and Lonely Horse" (Bill Gordh and John Malpede), Pooh, Kaye's Studio, New York, NY
1977
"Fourgone Conclusions" with Nancy Angelo, Cheri Gaulke, and Meredi Mandio Artists' studio
"Liebestod" with Cheri Gaulke, Kick-off event, attended by rape crisis center managers, preceding Suzanne Lacy's performance on rape, "Three Weeks in May"
1976
"I Am Abandoned" (computer link with MIT) with Richard Rubinstein and John Vittal, Cal Tech, Pasadena THE MANY ARTS OF SCIENCE
1975
“Outside Chance” w/ Richard Rubinstein, University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV. FIVE WOMEN ARTISTS IN LAS VEGAS
1968-69
"Raymond Rose Ritual Environment", with Judy Chicago Rose Parade, Pasadena
1968
"Chicken Sandwich" with Dick Kilgroe, ONE EVENING, Old Los Angeles Conservatory of Music
2022
Advisory Council Member, 18th Street Art Center
2021
Claire Trevor Lifetime Achievement Award, University of California Irvine
2020
Nelbert Chouinard Award
2014
Frieze Fair London, Frieze Stand Prize
Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship, Umbria Italy
Getty Research Institute, purchase: Barbara T. Smith archive
2012
Anonymous Was A Woman, Nomination
2011
Anonymous Was A Woman, Nomination for $25,000 award
2009
Columbia University, NY ARC/Durfee Grant
Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Arts for Installations Inside/Outside Armory, Pasadena
2008-present
Highways Performance Space & Gallery, 18th Street Arts Center: Board of Directors and Advisory Board
2006
A Window Between Worlds: Advisory Board
2005
ARC/Durfee Grant for Pomona Retrospective
2003
VFA (Veteran Feminists of America): Honor Roll/2nd Wave Feminist
2001-present
Los Angeles Poverty Department/John Malpede, dir.: Board of Directors
1999
Guest Herbert Lachmayer, University, Linz: Lecture & Consultation
Women's Caucus for Art, Convention LA: Lifetime Achievement Award
1992-2007
Consultant for "Mythseeker Project" McCagie Rogers (deceased)
1991
Sony Corporation Equipment
Studio Photo Services: In Kind Empowerment Project: Video Editing Rebate Bank of America: $5000 Match
1989
SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center), Venice: Residency
1988
Palm Springs Arts Museum, CA: Nominated for the Woman of the Year Award 1988-present
Dorland Mountain Art Colony, Temecula, CA: Review Committee
1987
Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA: Six-week Residency and Fellowship SPARC, Venice: Advisory Board and Residency
1985
National Endowment for the Arts: Individual Artist Grant
1984
Capp St. Project, San Francisco: Three-month Residency
1983
The Woman's Building, Los Angeles: Vesta Award for Performance Art
1982
Menninger Foundation, Council Groves, Kansas: Fellowship, Council Groves Conference Dorland Mountain Art Colony: Residency
1981
National Endowment for the Arts: Panelist, New Genre
1979
National Endowment for the Arts: Individual Artist Grant
1976
Edinburgh Arts Festival
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland: Fellowship
1974
National Endowment for the Arts: Individual Artist Grant
Archives of the Venice Biennale
Dare and Themos Michos, San Francisco Brooke Alexander, New York
Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco Halton Arp, Munich, West Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York Burnson-Martseller Association, Los Angeles Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum Shirley and Richard Shivers, Pasadena
Elis Cumberbatch, Claremont, CA
Richard Smith, Estate. San Francisco
Susanna Dakin, Santa MonicaLee and John Sisson, Flintridge, CA
Ray Dirks, New York
Chris Burden, Topanga,CA
Estate of Bernard Forest, Beverly Hills June Steinmetz, Pasadena
Elsa Garmire, Manhattan Beach Sacha Stuart, Lone Pine, CA
Thomas Garver, Chicago
Roy L. Walford, Venice
Elyse & Stanley Grinstein, Los Angeles Frank G. Wells, Beverly Hills
Gerard John Hayes, Los Angeles George and Mary Witter, Pasadena Allan Kaprow, San Diego
Melinda and Ed Wortz, Santa Monica Gert Kroll, Dusseldorf, West Germany Diana and Harry Zlotnik, Studio City Tom Marioni, San Francisco
Lakshmi Lambert, Santa Monica
Lisa Walford, Marina Del Rey
Franklin Furnace, N.Y.
D. Harry Montgomery, Pasadena Carole and Boris Sojka, Glendora, CA Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zurich
Leslie Barnes
Otis College of Art & Design The J. Paul Getty Museum MOCA Los Angeles
Sabra Clark, L.A.
Terry Holzgreen/Sharon Kagan, Bel Air Therese Hayes, Palm Springs
Linda Brownridge, Pasadena
Frac des pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France Pomona Graduate School
California Institute of the Arts
University of California, Irvine
Pomona College Museum of Art
Gary Deutschman
Margaret Hinshaw
Paul & Karen McCarthy
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) The Armand Hammer Museum
Ana Carolina Bortolo
Chicago Art Institute