b. 1976, Salt Lake City, Utah
Living in San Jose, CA
EDUCATION
M.F.A in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, 2005
B.F.A. in Painting, Brigham Young University, 2003
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
*indicates solo show
2011 Drawing Now Paris, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
On Spirituality: Emerging Visions of the Spiritual, Gallery 842, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2010 Things are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Doomslangers , Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY*
Stock Up On Heal and Mana Potions, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA*
Weight Perception, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Casey Jex Smith + John Casey Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Indulgences, Concertina Gallery at GOFFO at NEXT, Chicago, IL
2009 Gird Your Elves and Be Broken in Pieces, LaViolaBank Gallery, New York, NY*
Take the A Train, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Summer Salon, LaViolaBank Gallery, New York, NY
Paper, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Regime Change, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 Materials Unorganized, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA*
New Work, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL*
That Day and that Night and that Day, The Lab, San Francisco, CA*
Selections Spring 2008, The Drawing Center, NY
microwave 6, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY
L'Expérience Utile, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Surreal Naivete, M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, NY
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2007 There Is No End to Matter, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA*
Three Solo Shows, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA*
Bliss, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
The Total Power of Such a Signal Is Infinite, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
Randy Hess, Jared Lindsay Clark, Casey Jex Smith, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Affair at Jupiter with Swarm Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Temple Bilds, Come, Come, Ye Saints!, Fifty 50 Gallery, Chicago, IL*
New Work, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT*
East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Aqua Art Fair Miami with Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Scope London with ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
A Family Affair, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Utopia, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dowser's Delight, Front Gallery, Oakland, CA
5ives, Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Momentum, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Come, Come, Ye Saints! And Temple Bilds, Fifty50 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 50 Drawings and one Big Painting, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Pacific Lines, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
Lobot Retrospective, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Paper!Awesome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2004 19th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art Exhibit, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
The Drawing Box Show, Mobile Art Gallery, The Luggage Store in the Street Festival, San Francisco, CA
Paper Awesome!, Mimi Barr, San Francisco, CA
L.P.'s, Provo Art Council Gallery, Provo, UT
2003 Three Grids: Past, Past, Present, Provo Arts Council Gallery, Provo, UT*
2001 Minute: a boxed set of miniature multiples, Artists Space, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Droitcour, Brian. "Big Reality", Rhizome, March 2011.
Gilsdorf, Ethan. "How 'Dungeons & Dragons' changed my life", Salon.com, March 2011.
Chang, Dewitt. "Double Dare at Swarm Gallery", East Bay Express, January 2011.
Cotton, Ashlie. "Dungeons and Dragons in an LES Gallery", The Lo-Down: News from the Lower East Side, October 2010.
RIff, Joel. "Parcours Marais Dessin", artnet.com.fr, March 2010.
Caprasse Marie-Jeanne, "Casey Jex Smith et John Casey", paris-art.com, April 2010.
Jepson, Theric. "Couple Creators: Casey Jex Smith / Amanda Michelle Smith", motleyvision.org, March 2010.
Auer, Theo Konrad. "Q & A: The Art of Case Jex Smith", theoakbook.com, February 2010.
Monroe, Brendan. "Casey Jex Smith", beautifuldecay.com, January 2010.
Trippe, John. "Blesofsky, Smith, & Anderson @ Swarm Gallery", fecalface.com, Februrary 2010.
Brier, Jessica. "Reverse Subliminal Messagin", ereview.org, March 2010.
Obrien, Buck. "Swarm Gallery", examiner.com, March 2010.
Azimi, Roxana. " Le Paris du dessin", Le Journal des Arts, #299, March 2009
Smith, Nancy. "Casey Jex Smith/LaViolaBank opens tonight!", artloversnewyork.com, June 2009.
Loechner, Erin. Interview, Mankind Magazine, issue 7, 2009.
Spicer, Jakki. "Casey Jex Smith - Materials Unorganized at Swarm Gallery", Artweek, November 2008.
McQuaid, Cate. "Story Line", Boston Globe, October 2008.
Jenks, Debra. "Drawing the Invisible", Chelsea Now, Volume 2, #25, March 2008.
Olson, Marisa. "Drawn Out Processes", Rhizome, July 2008.
Weinberg, Lauren. "Casey Jex Smith", Time Out Chicago, Issue 175, July 2008.
DARE Magazine, Issue #2, 2008.
Auer, Theo Konrad. "Art, Religion, and Success", The Oakbook, September 2008.
Goldberg, Max. "The There, There", San Francisco Bay Guardian, December, 12, 2007.
Delaney, Colin. "Casey Jex Smith: Christ! That's Good", Empty Magazine, issue #10, 2007.
Spicer, Jakki. "200 Second Street", East Bay Express, June 2007.
Bibeau, Petra. "There Is No End to Matter", Marginal, Issue #2, June/July 2007.
Calloway, Bob. Artfever, June 2007.
"Upcoming Exhibitions", Artweek, April 2007.
Castillo, Salvador. "The Total Power of Such a Signal is Infinite", Glasstire, September 2007
Auer, Theo Konrad. Sweet Art, issue #7 2007
Baker, Kenneth. "Played backward or forward, video at YBCA makes for unsettling images", San Francisco Chronicle, December 2006.
Huston, Johnny Ray. "Local Artist", San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 2006 .
Kurtz, Katie. "5ives", San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 2006 .
Calloway, Bob. Artfever, September 2006.
Pew, Chris. Fecalface Interview, July 2006.
Wichert, Geoff. "Sexual Dimorphism & the Sacred Profane", 15bytes, February 2005.
Zyzzyva, issue #74 2005.
Neomu, issue #8 2005.
Neomu, issue #7 2004.
