Shawn Smith

Blue-bearded Helmet crest

2015

Shawn Smith was born in 1972 in Dallas, TX , he received his MFA in Sculpture from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2005. He has received artist-in-residencies from the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, and the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. Smith’s work has been exhibited at the National Art and Culture Center of Norway, Gallery Mark Hachem (Paris, France), Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, (Finland), and throughout the United States including the Austin Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Oakland Arts Museum, Berkeley Art Center, Richmond Art Center. In 2006, Smith was commissioned to create a monumental public sculpture in San Francisco, CA. In 2017, he was commissioned to create Convergence, consisting of 100 sculptures for the new NYPL Westchester Square Library in the Bronx, for which he received a 2018 NYC Excellence in Design Award from the New York Public Design Commission. In addition to his public artworks, Smith has received commissions to create works for many private and corporate clients including Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, Boston Consulting Group, Frost Bank, and Wired Magazine-UK, among others. His work is in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery in Washington DC, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Explora Science Museum in Albuquerque, NM, and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.