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Anthony Smith received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Amherst College (1999) and an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Michigan (2001). He’s shown nationally most recently in the “Might Real/Queer Detroit Exhibit”, Detroit (2022) and in “Telling Our Story” at the David Driskell Center, University of Maryland. Smith has also shown in various Pennsylvania exhibitions including at the Bethlehem House Gallery in 2016, 2019, and 2022, and in “The New Normal” at Moravian University’s Payne Gallery (2021).
He’s been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Detroit Free Press, and the Artist’s Magazine. Smith has taught at the University of Michigan, Parsons School of Design, Princeton University, Maryland Institute College of Art, Lehigh University, and Muhlenberg College. He has served as artist-in-residence at the National Academy of Design NYC (2006 – 2008), the Vermont Studio Center in 2016, and 2022 the MacDowell Fellowship Residency in New Hampshire in 2023, and at the Banana Factory Arts Center from 2014 to 2024. Internationally, Smith traveled in January 2023 to Republic of Senegal, Africa as part of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers: West African Research Faculty Development Seminar and to Sanquhar, Scotland as part of Kolaj Institute Collage Artists Residency: Scotland. A resident of Allentown, he currently teaches art at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.