Our voices are not our own installed at Re-enchanted Matter
APT Gallery, curated by Hot Desque, 2020
Our voices are not our own installed at Re-enchanted Matter
APT Gallery, curated by Hot Desque, 2020
Our voices are not our own installed at Re-enchanted Matter
APT Gallery, curated by Hot Desque, 2020
Our voices are not our own installed at Re-enchanted Matter
APT Gallery, curated by Hot Desque, 2020
Act 1 : She spoke rain
2017
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BLINKERS
Installed at BA Degree Show
Slade School of Fine Art
2015
Education
BA at The Slade School of FIne Art 2011 - 2015
Cooper Union School of Fine Art, New York, 2013 (Exchange)
Current/ Upcoming
Residency: Live Work Residency ACME Fire Station 2023-2026
https://acme.org.uk/artist-support/mid-career/work-live/lara-smithson/
Solo exhibition: Des Bains November 2024
Solo booth: Marseille art-o-rama presented by Des Bains August 2024
https://art-o-rama.fr/exhibitor/des-bains/
Solo exhibition: St John's College Oxford January 2025
Awards | Scholarships | Residencies
Benoît Doche de Laquintane Collection Prize 2024
For solo presentation by DES BAINS at ART O RAMA 2024
Live Work Residency ACME Fire Station 2023-2026
https://acme.org.uk/artist-support/mid-career/work-live/lara-smithson/
A.N Artist Bursary, 2022/23:
https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/artists-bursaries-2022-23-recipients-announced/
Artist in Residence, St Johns College, Oxford University, 2023
https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/college-life/art/artists-in-residence/
Bridget Riley Fellowship, British School of Rome, Rome, 2021/22
https://bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-artists-lara-smithson/
Erasmus Training and travel to The Orta Botanica, Padova, Italy, 2022/23
Claire Winston Award 2015
Dolbey Travel Scholarship 2015
The Grocers' Company Queens Golden Jubilee Scholarship 2011 - 2015
Official Selection WomenCineMakers Biennial Edition 2018
Commissions
STOP PLAY RECORD in collaboration with ICA & Channel 4
Exhibitions
Solo
UPCOMING: Des Bains, London, November 2024
UPCOMING: St John's College Oxford, January 2025
Solo presentation by DES BAINS at ART O RAMA, Marseille, August 2024
UNNAMED SAINTS, Coleman Projects, London, May/June, 2023
Unnamed Saint, Una Vetrina, Rome, Italy, 2022
She Spoke Rain, The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi Georgia, 2018
Group
Sideshow, Lethaby Gallery, London, January-February 2023
Hall of Mirrors, Curated by Georgia Stephenson at PLOP, London. October 2023
https://stephensongeorgia.com/HALL-OF-MIRRORS
Seismic Mother, Hypha Studios 50 Celebration Ave, London 1st - 27th Sept
https://hyphastudios.com/seismic-mother-curated-by-holly-birtles-charly-blackburn/
Brewers Towner International, Eastbourne, October 2022
https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/brewers-towner-international
Red in Tooth and Claw, curated by Francesca Dobbe, Filet Space, London, February 2023
Bag, pedestal, rabbit, potato at Staffordshire St, London, September 2022
March Mostra, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2022
December Mostra, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2021
Plicnik Space Initiative, Online https://plicnik.space
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London 2020/2021
https://bowarts.org/nunnery-gallery/visions-in-the-nunnery
Rising Sun Collective, Screening, Online, 2020
Re-Enchanted Matter, A.P.T, London September 2020
https://www.hotdesque.xyz/reenchantedmatter
https://www.aptstudios.org/news/96qd8q9b3kofz1vuup311da7ntd81j
Exquisite CORPUS, Online 2020
OUTPOST Open Film 2019, selected by Stuart Whipps, Norwich Cinema City 2019
Fivehundredthousand Film Screening, Deptford Cinema, London 2019
PRINTED, Central Saint Martins, London 2019
Undercurrents, The Artesian Well, London 2018
ArtWorks Open 2018, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London 2018
Visions in the Nunnery | Bow Arts, London 2018
The Grand Tour Inauguration , fivehundredthousandgallery @ Artlicks Weekend , London 2018
Four Limbs, London 2018
Perform & Pixel, fivehundredthousandgallery, London 2018
One need not be a chamber, Exposed Arts Projects, London 2018
http://www.exposedartsprojects.com/news
PLAYBACK touring UK, 2017-2018
https://stopplayrecord.ica.art
GROUPshow, New York 2017
WE WERE THERE, London 2015
Slade BA Degree Show, London 2015
Doleful Shades, London 2015
PAST PRESENT FUTURE KULT, London 2015
Second Person Looking Out, UCL Museum, London 2014
Hit and Run, New York 2013
Art of the Book, New York 2013
The Kilburn Grand Tour, with Camden Arts Centre and Kingsgate Workshops Trust 2012
Interviews
The British School at Rome Blog 2022
https://bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-artists-lara-smithson/
The British School at Rome Blog 2021
https://britishschoolatrome.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/meet-the-artists-lara-smithson/
WomenCinemakers 2018
https://issuu.com/cinemakers/docs/special.edition/4
Published writing
Breadcrumb, 2020
https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/breadcrumb/#publication_16564
Catalogue, Re-enchanted Matter, Hot Desque, 2020
https://www.hotdesque.xyz/reenchantedmatter
WomenCinemakers 2018
https://issuu.com/cinemakers/docs/special.edition/4
Vermeer's women don't have legs', Tomorrow Works, 2015
Talks
Artist Talk, St John’s College Oxford, 2023
In conversation, St John’s College Oxford, 2023
Artist Talk, Seismic Mother, Hypha Studios, London, 2023
Artist Talk at The British School at Rome, 2022
Artist Talk, What we do, at Central Saint Martins, 2018