Serena Smith

  

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(b.1960, London)

education/training
2018-24 Loughborough University, doctoral research
2006-08 Institute of Education, London (P.G.Dip. Art and Design in Education)
2002-04 Central Saint Martins’ School of Art, London (M.A. Fine Art)
1985-97 Curwen Studio, London and Cambridge, collaborative studio lithographer
1981-83 University of London (B.A.Hons. Art/Drama)

teaching
2024 - Loughborough University School of Design and Creative Arts; teacher
2009 - Leicester Print Workshop; tutor, community programme project leader, Lithography Fellowship mentor
2002-11 Curwen Print Study Centre, Cambridge; tutor

public collections
Aberystwyth University, Wales
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany
British Library, London
British Museum, London
China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen
Nottingham University, Ningbo, China
University of California, Berkley, USA

awards
2023 For Arts Sake prize, RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
2022 Third International Bienniale of Lithography, Serbia - first prize; Intaglio Printmaker Prize, RE Original Prints, London
2020 Santander Mobility Award, Loughborough Doctoral College, UK
2016 Guanlan Original Printmaking Base residency prize, Shenzhen, China; P2P Prize, Leicester Print Workshop
2014 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
2012 Wirksworth Festival Prize, Derby City Open, UK
2011 St Barnabus Prize, BITE: Artists Making Prints, London; John E Wright Prize, Nottingham Castle Open, UK
2010 Spike Island Prize, Small Print International, Leicester, UK

solo exhibitions
2013
Pastoral, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, UK
Hodegetria: work in progress, Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth, UK

2009
And weave but nets ... Printroom, LCB Depot, Leicester, UK


selected group exhibitions
2024
Okanagan Print Triennial, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
Refresh, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, UK
Drawing Articulations: a radical drawing symposium, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

2023
Collecting Nature, Eagle Gallery, London
RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London

2022
Collaboration in Practice: British Lithography 1800-2022, Aberystwyth University and touring UK
Third International Biennial of Lithography, Parobrod Cultural Insitution, Belgrade, Serbia
8th International Lithography Exhibition, Konstlitografiska Muséet, Tidaholm, Sweden
Ecologies of Drawing: In Situ, Loughborough University, UK

2021
Drawn to Time, Loughborough University, UK

2020
Triennial of Graphic Arts, The Franciscan Museum and Gallery Gorica, Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Re: connections, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2019
Out of the Woods, Nick Mobbs and Serena Smith, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester, UK
Antiphony, Leicester Print Workshop, UK

2018
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Lithographietage International, Münchner Künstlerhaus, Munich, Germany
International Printmaking Biennial, Museo do Douro, Peso da Régua, Portugal
Journeys to Home, Rugby Museum and Art Gallery, UK

2017
A Study in Stone, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, UK
The John Ruskin Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Sketch Open, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wiltshire and touring, UK
Ikigai, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford, UK

2015
Xiaoxiang Exhibition, Mei Lun Gallery, Hunan Fine Art Institute, Changsha, China
Light Up, Leicester Print Workshop, UK
Litho-Kielce, Buiro Wystaw Artystychznych W Kielcach, Kielce, Poland

2014
Akram Khan: One side to the Other, The Lowry, Manchester, UK
The Walking Encyclopaedia, Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK
Print International, Mansers, Shrewsbury; Oriel Myrdnn, Carmarthen, UK

2013
Practical Dialogue, Leicester and touring, UK
Fresh Prints, UAL Showroom, London, UK
Print International, Regional Print Centre, Wrexham, UK
The London Group Centenary Exhibition, The Cello Factory, London, UK

2012
BIMPE V11, Vancouver and touring, Canada
BITE: Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2011
Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham, UK
Small Print, New Walk Museum, Leicester and touring UK

2010
Surface, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK

2009
Passion to Print, City Gallery, Leicester and touring UK

2007
Winter Show, North House Gallery, Manningtree, UK

2006
Multiple Choice, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Corby, UK
New Hall College, Cambridge, UK

2005
Art East, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, UK

2004
Land and Light, Wingfield Arts, Suffolk, UK

2003
Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Arts Centre, UK

1985
Eight by Eight, Curwen Gallery, UK


presentations
2024
BABE, Bristol Artists Book Event, UWE, UK
International Lithography Colloquium, Offenbach, Germany

2023
Visiting speaker, Coventry University, UK

2022
Festival of Ideas: Transitions, IAS Loughborough University, UK
8th International Lithographic Symposium, Tidaholm, Sweden
IMPACT 12 International Printmaking Conference, UWE, UK

2020
Material Encounters Summer Colloquium: Uncertain Knowledges, Birmingham University, UK

2018
Cambridge Printmakers Biennale, UK - keynote speaker
Print Symposium, Regional Print Centre, Wrexham, UK - keynote speaker