EDUCATION
2009 M.F.A., Painting and Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2007 B.F.A., Painting Major, Art History Minor, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Redaction | 'sindikit | project, Baltimore, MD
2017 Locus of Control | Maus Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2016 Time Further Out | Ponce Robles Gallery, Madrid, Spain (Solo)
2015 Vivir en la tierra plana (Living In The Flat Land) | Galleria Ponce+Robles, Madrid, Spain
2015 Volta 11 International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Vacation | DeLuce Gallery Northwest Missouri State University Olive, Maryville, MO
2014 As I Remembered | Beta Pictoris Gallery / Maus Contemporary Birmingham, AL
2014 Opposing Dysfunction | Wriston Art Galleries. Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
2013 I Dream Too Much | Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2012 Leslie Smith III: Representation, Abstraction, Oscillation | Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Expo Chicago's EXPOSURE | Curated by Naima Keith | Chicago, IL
2019 tel un geste captivant la lumière | Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris, France
2019 Aftereffect: O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art | Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
2019 DRAWING NOW Paris | Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris, France
2018 Change Agent | Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2018 FOCUS III: I’ll see it When I believe it, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts Museum, Birmingham, AL
2018 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair Miami Beach | w/Maus Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair Miami Beach | w/Maus Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 Minimal Gestures | w/Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt, Germany
2017 Paper Positions Munich | w/Maus Contemporary Gallery, Munich, Germany
2017 Echo Spectrum | Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 DRAWING NOW Paris | Travis Somerville, Suso Fandiño, Catherine Tafur, Leslie Smith III, Yoshishige Furukawa w/Maus Contemporary Gallery, Paris, France
2016 Black Paintings | Heike Strelow, Frankfurt, Germany
2016 Volta NY International Art Fair | w/Beta Pictoris Gallery, New York, NY
2016 ARCO Madrid International Contemporary Art Fair | w/Ponce Robles Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2016 Losing my Edge: New Perspectives in Abstract Figurative Painting | Bloch Hall Gallery, University of
2016 Montevallo, Birmingham, AL
2014 Volta 10 Art Fair | w/Beta Pictoris Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Pulse New York Contemporary Art Fair, | w/Beta Pictoris Gallery New York, NY
2014 Monochromatic | Triumph & Disaster, Montgomery, AL
2014 Parallax Futured: Transtemporal Subjectivities | Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2014 Black In The Abstract, Part II: Hard Edges/Soft Curves, 65th Anniversary, with curatorial contributions by Valerie
2014 Cassel Oliver, Bill Arning, and Dean Daderko | Contemporary Art Museum Huston, Houston, TX
2013 Big Bangs/Small Bucks Redux | Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2013 Beta Pictoris Gallery at Texas Contemporary Art Fair | Houston, TX
2013 Wisconsin 30 | Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
2013 Pulp 3 ...works on paper | Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2013 ARTPADSF | Art fair at the Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco, CA
2012 25 for 25 | Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012 Voices of Home | Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Voices of Home | Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Intersecting Cultures/Virtual Worlds | Underground Gallery at the Betsy, Miama, FL
2011 Two Men 2011: Tim Roseborough & Leslie Smith, III | Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Balls | Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2010 In/Ex | Gallery M, New York, NY
2010 Joel Dean, Fabienne Lasserre, Leslie Smith III | Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Emerge CT: 2009 MFA Graduates from UConn, Western Connecticut State and Yale, Stamford, CT
2009 Yale University School of Art M.F.A. Thesis Show, New Haven, CT
2008 Verge | Galapagos Art Space, New York, NY
2007 Visions of Conflict: Rendering Dissent | Gormley gallery College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD
2007 MAEF Juried Exhibition | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2007 Maryland Institute College of Art B.F.A. Thesis Show, Baltimore, MD
2006 Taylor Companies Retrospective Show | Taylor Companies, Washington DC
COLLECTIONS
Virginia Museum of Fine Art | Richmond, VA
The High Museum of Art Permanent Collection |Atlanta, GA
The Collection of Kera and Bennie F. Johnson
Taylor Companies | Washington DC
Numerous private collections
HONORS & AWARDS
UW Fall Competition – Individual Proposal- “Tension and Noise, A Pure Material Approach to Abstraction” 2019
UW Fall Competition – Individual Proposal - “Isolated Gestures” | 2018
UW Vilas Associates Award | 2016
UW Fall Competition – Individual Proposal - “Unfolded: Dimensional Expansion of Perceived Two-Dimensional Space” | 2015
Nellie McKay Fellowship | 2014
UW Graduate School Fall Competition – Individual Proposal - “Folded Space” | 2014
UW Fall Competition – Individual Proposal - “The Material Support” | 2013
UW Fall Competition – Individual Proposal - “Departing Expectations” | 2012
American Academy in Rome, Al Held Affiliate Fellowship | Rome Italy | 2009
Best in show, Maryland Artist Equity Foundation Juried Exhibition | Baltimore Museum of Art | 2007
Freda Eichelberger Scholarship | 2006 -2007
Thailheimer Scholarship | 2003 – 2007
ARTS Scholarship, MICA | 2003 – 2007
National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Finalist and Scholarship recipient | 2003
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
“FOCUS III: I’ll see it when I believe it,” Exhibition Catalog, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts Museum, June 2018. pp. 70-72
“Echo Spectrum,” Exhibition Catalog, Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, March 2017. pp. 43 - 47
"Leslie Smith III. Left to Think Alone," Artist Monograph, Maus Contemporary Gallery: June 2017
Gleeson, Bridget “Talking With American Painter Leslie Smith III About Abstraction, Anguish, and Architecture”
Artsy Accessed January, 2017. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-talking-american-painter-leslie-smith-iiiabstraction-anguish-architecture
Gonzalez Panizo, Javier “Pintura y Tiempo: Abstracción Post-Pictórica” Zona Crítica Accessed October 2016. http://exit-express.com/pintura-y-tiempo-abstraccion-post-pictorica/
Butler, Sharron “Interview: Leslie Smith III in Madison, Wisconsin” Two coats of Paint Accessed February, 2016. http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2016/02/interview-leslie-smith-iii-in-madison.html
“Living in The Flat Land” Revista de Arte Contemporaneo Madrid Art Process Accessed February 2015. http://www.madridartprocess.com/agenda-cultural-madrid/item/1582-living-in-the-flat-land.html
Gonzalez Panizo, Javier “Leslie Smith III: Paint on The Surface” Blogearte – Critica De Arte Accessed February 2015. http://www.blogearte.com/2015/02/leslie-smith-iii-pintura-en-la.html
“What’s in an art Gallery? I dare to ask.” INVESTIGART Accessed January, 2015 https://investigart.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/artistas-en-el-escaparate-nos-vamos-de-galerias/
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Valerie Cassel Oliver, "Reverb" Out Side The Lines exhibition catalogue December 2014 pp. 143-147 Images 172-173
Callaloo Art & Culture in The African Diaspora. October 2014. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Issue 4 Vol. 37, pp. 867-869
Caroline Taylor “Monochromatic” Made, Issue 12, (April 2014): 8
Walter Lewellyn "Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood" Weld For Birmingham, Accessed March 13, 2014. http://weldbham.com/blog/2014/03/13/dont-let-me-be-misunderstood/
Steinhoff, Jessica “Leslie Smith III’s Paintings Explore Trauma Through Abstraction at MMoCA ” Isthmus The Daily Page, Accessed June, 2013. http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=40122
Leah kolb " Paintings in Conflict Leslie Smith's Contemporary Abstractions" I Dream Too Much exhibition catalogue, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art June 7, 2013
Katherine Murrell "Representation, Abstraction, Oscillation" Exhibition catalogue Dean Jensen Gallery July 27, 2012
Erica Agyeman "The Medium of The Message" International Review of African American Art, Issue 23.4, (December 2011): 35-38
Glen McNatt "Saying Their Piece About Fighters, War” Baltimore Sun, Accessed July, 2007. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2007-07-25/features/0707250164_1_dame-of-maryland-college-of-notre-notredame
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI 2016 – Present
Vice President, Board of Trustee
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI 2014 - 2016
Trustee Board Member
Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris, France | 2019 - Present
Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada | 2018 - Present
Heike Strelow, Frankfurt, Germany | 2016 - Present
Gallery Ponce + Robles, Madrid Spain | 2014 -2016
Maus Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, AL | 2013-Present
APPOINTMENTS
University Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | 2017 - Present: Associate Professor Drawing and Painting
University Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | 2011 - 2017: Assistant Professor Drawing and Painting
University Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | 2010 - 2011: Senior Lecture,
University of Hartford, Hartford, CT | 2009 - 2010: Adjunct Professor, Traditional Drawing, Introduction to Painting
LECTURES & VISITS
Peninsula School of Art | Fish Creek, WI | 2019: Contemporary Themes in Abstraction Presentation and Workshop
Peninsula School of Art | Fish Creek, WI | 2018: Contemporary Themes in Abstraction Presentation and Workshop
The Look of THINGS, Curators Office, Washington, DC | 2017: Panelist
American University Department of Art | Washington DC | 2016: Kinetic: Conversations in Contemporary Arts Featuring Leslie Smith III and Rushern Baker IV
Northwest Missouri State University | Maryville, MO | 2014: Visiting Artist: Lecture and Studio Visits
UW Milwaukee Peck School of Art | Milwaukee, WI | 2014: Visiting Artist: Lecture and Studio Visits
University of Iowa School of Art & Art History, Iowa City, IA | 2014: Visiting Artist: Lecture
“I Dream Too Much” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI | 2013: Gallery talk and Docent talk
Marie Walsh Sharp Art Foundation Summer Session III, Colorado Spring, CO | 2013: Lecture & Painting Seminar instructor
Voices of Home Panel Discussion, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY | 2012: Panel Discussion moderated by former MoCODA curator Kalia Brooks
Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY | 2011: Gallery Talk & Panel Discussion “Contemporary African American Art”
Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL | 2011: Visiting Artist: Lecture and painting, printmaking workshop
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD | 2010: Visiting Artist: Lecture and Undergraduate Thesis Studio Visits
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT | 2010: Visiting Critic: Painting Studio II, seniors and juniors undergraduate majors
University Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI | 2010: Visiting Artist: Lecture and Graduate Studio Visits