Brian Smith (b.1994) is a Maine based artist who works in sculpture, painting, and drawing. His work utilizes queer ecological theory to challenge traditional views of nature as separate from human society. Smith visualizes optimistic futures through proposed adaptive migration...
Read MoreBrian Smith (b.1994) is a Maine based artist who works in sculpture, painting, and drawing. His work utilizes queer ecological theory to challenge traditional views of nature as separate from human society. Smith visualizes optimistic futures through proposed adaptive migration to the oceans, as a means of surviving human-induced climate catastrophe.
Smith holds a BFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from Maine College of Art & Design. His works have been exhibited extensively across New England in places such as the Portland Museum of Art, The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and LaMontagne and Howard Yezerski Gallery. He has also been included in group exhibitions in Antwerp Belgium, and Austin Texas. His work has been written about in various publications, including Boston Art Review, The Portland Press Herald, Maine Magazine, The Chart, Floorr, Divide, and Working Artists Magazine.
Smith is a recent Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College, and has completed artist residencies at Monson Arts, and Hewnoaks Artist Residency, where he currently serves as Residency Manager; he will also be an upcoming resident at GlogauAIR in Berlin in 2025. Notably, Smith is the recipient of the Innovative Artist Grant, American Rescue Plan Maine Project Grant via SPACE Gallery, Maine Arts Commission Springboard Grant and subsequent Project Grant.
