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René Smith was born in Philadelphia and received her M.F.A. in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome and her B.A. in Painting from Bennington College in Vermont.  Some recent exhibitions include shows at Deiglan Gallery in Akureyri, Iceland, The Brooklyn Arts Council, Project Diversity Queens at KoreaVillage in Flushing, Queens, and The Courthouse Gallery at Anthology Film Archives in New York.  She has attended residencies at the Gil-Society in Iceland and Vermont Studio Center, and was a visiting artist at Eastern Oregon University in Fall 2007.   Her work was featured in the 2007 northeastern edition of New American Paintings and she is a recipient of a 2007 grant from The George Sugarman Foundation.  René Smith will be a Visiting Lecturer in Painting at Chiang Mai University in Thailand in 2008-09.  She lives and works in Long Island City, Queens.

Current shows:

Emerge 9 at Aljira curated by Chrisopher Y. Lew.  Newark, NJ.  July - September 2008.

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Photo by Evan Sung

René Smith in Iceland 2007