Artists
BOB AND ROBERTA SMITH
Born London, 1963
Lives and works in London
Education
2011
Honorary Fellows of Arts University College Bournemouth
1991-93
MA Fine Art, Goldsmith's College, London
1981-85
University of Reading, BA (First Class Hons) Fine Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
The Art Pary of the UK, Hales Gallery (October)
Who is Community London Transport Stratford Station
You Should be in Charge, Work Gallery
2011
The Gotham Golem, Pierogi Gallery, New York
I have forgotten, was there a past?, Leeds City Art Gallery
2010
I should be in charge, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Bob and Roberta Smith design the D&AD Annual
2009
Hijack Reality, Let 100,000 Kunstvereine Bloom, Warwick, UK
This Artist is deeply dangerous, Beaconsfield, London
A memorial to Harry Farr, Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium
I was up all night making this, Cesane Manzo Gallery, Rome
2008
Christmas Tree, Tate Britian
Long Short Story Backwards, Greenwich Peninsula Public Art Project
I am a living sign The Bob and Roberta Smith Diaries, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2007
The Captains Journal of the Voyage of the Human Being, Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium
Shop Local, Peer Gallery, London, UK
2005
The Beautiful Poetry of Bob and Roberta Smith, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Make Your Own Damn Art, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK
2004
Art is my Airplane, International 3, Manchester, UK
Help Build The Ruins of Democracy, The Baltic, UK
2003
The Mobile Reality Creator, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, London
2002
Its not easy being a famous Artist, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Useless men and Stupid Women, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Bunch of Cowards, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
The New York Art Amnesty, Pierogi, New York, USA
The Art Amnesty, Deptford X, London, UK
2001
Make Me a Sandwich, Richard Heller Gallery, L.A.
Suburbs Are the New Center - Create Your Own Reality, Galleria Carbone.to, Torino, Italy
Unfortunate, Bob Smith hosts the search for the worst artwork in Britain, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2000
26 Instructions, Turnaround at the Hayward, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Le Ecole Burrows & Bob Smith, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France (David Burrows & Bob and Roberta Smith Two Person Show)
1999
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Improve the Cat, Galleria Carbone.to, Torino, Italy
Silent Video, Virgin Mega Store, London, UK
1998
Pierogi 2000, New York, USA
1997
Don't Hate Sculpt, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
1997-8
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
1996
Flawed, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London, UK
1994
Another Disappointment, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London
1989
The Man Whose Head Expanded, Cooper Union School of Arts & Science, New York
1988
Damn The Begrudgers, Center 181, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
The Crisis Commission, Somerset House, London
Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
Prinzip Baustelle / Men at Work, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
2011
Olympic Poster commision LOCOG
The Life of the Mind, curated by Bob and Roberta Smith, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2010
Rude Britannia, Tate Britain, UK
Niet Normaal, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
I Should Be in Charge, installation Hayward Gallery facade
2009
That's all folks, Cultuurcentrum Brugge
ALTERMODERN, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain. London, UK (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud)
2008
Freedom Centre, Hales Gallery, London, UK
No Letters, Nettie Horn, London, UK
Fourth Plinth, The National Gallery, London, UK
Paul Thek, ZKM/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsrule, Germany
2007
Hearing Voices, seeing things, Serpentine Gallery
The Apathy Workshop, Home Live Arts Project, Battersea Park
Art U Need, Public Art Project Commissions East
2006
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, Tate Liverpool, UK
Peace Camp, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
Hearing Voices, Seeing Things, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2005
Brit Povera, Gallery Krinzinger, Austria
Only a minute to live, Temporary Contemporary, curated by Klega, London, UK
Cell Project Space Show, curated by Richard Priestley, London, UK
Summer Daze, South London Gallery, London, UK
Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield, London, UK
2004
Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Plazasuite, Union Gallery, London, UK
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Master Blaster, Ode to Anti Social Aethetics, BARD College, New York
Time On Your Hands, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
2003
Thatcher, Blue Gallery, London, UK
Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
Kick it till it hurts, VTO Gallery, Manchester, UK
Bag Lady, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2002
Sidewinder, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta, India
Air Guitar, Milton Keynes Gallery of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Art after Art, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
2001
Artists World, CCAC, San Francisco
12 Internet Projects, commisioned by the BBC, The Lux Center, London, UK
Death, The Round House, Camden, London, UK
Big Blue at Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK
City Racing: A Partial View, London, UK
2000-01
Landscape, British Council, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
2000
Waiting, curated by Lotta Hammer, Mjellby Konstgard, Sweden
Intelligence, New British Art 2000, Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, UK
Insanity Benefit, Vilma Gold, London, UK
3 Rooms, Outside Project, Left is the New Right, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
1999
East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, London, UK
Limitless, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
My Eye Hurts, Thread Waxing Space, New York & Green Room, Manchester, UK
Museum Magogo, Glasgow Project Space, UK
Peace, Migros Museum, Zurich, CH
£4.99 Sculptures, Museum of Installation at Deptford X, Deptford, UK
Stop it write now, Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
1998
W139 Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
A to Z, The Approach, London, UK
Camouflage 2000, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Mise En Scene, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Do All Oceans Have Walls, Kunstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany
1997
Bring Your Own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
Urban Legends, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Germany
1996
Experiment GB, Trier & Hannover, Germany
Escape Attempts, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark
Electronic Undercurrents - Art & Video in Europe, National Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Atopic Site, Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo, Japan
Try, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1995
Hit & Run, The Ministry of Sound, London, UK
Couldn't Get Ahead, Independent Art Space, London, UK
Gang Warfare, Independent Art Space, London, UK
Lost Property, W139 Amsterdam, Holland; Great Western Studios, London, UK
Karaoke, South London Art Gallery, London, UK
1994
Potato, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Wish You Were Here, Burbage House, Curtain Road, London
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Somethings Wrong, The Tannery, London, UK
1993
Imprint, City Racing, London, UK
The Pet Show, Union Street Gallery, London, UK
1992
BISK, The Jam Factory, Bermondsey, London, UK
1991
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1983
Young Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK
1982
Northern Young Contemporaries, London,
UK
Awards
1988-90
Harkness Fellowship in conjunction with Cooper Union School of Arts & Sciences, New York
1987-88
Cardiff Junior Fellowship, Cardiff, UK
1985-87
Priz de Rome, British Academy, Roma, Italy
Collections
Tate Collection, London, UK
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
British Council Collection, London, UK
Southampton City Museum & Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Goss Michael Foundation