Solo Exhibitions
2021 (Upcoming) Variations - The Gallery, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
2017 Macchia- Golberg Galerie, Müllerstraße, Munich
2017 Origins – Pallas Projects,The Coombe, Dublin 8
2015 Holy Mountain – Backloft Gallery, St. Augustine St, Dublin
2006 Behind the Eyes – Pratt Gallery – 144 West 14th St, New York
Selected Exhibitions
2020 (Upcoming) Westival 2020, Westport, Ireland
2020 JournALL - Virtual exhibition - Curated by Valeria Ceregini
2019 Untitled- Belvedere Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2018 Scope Art Show – 312 West 33rd Street, New York
2018 Quadrafuss – Gallery 66, San Fidel, New Mexico
2017 Candy Castle – Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, Texas
2017 Start 17 – Goldberg gallery, Munich
2017 Tara X Iverna – The Tara Building Gallery, Dublin
2017 Pop Journey – Lilac Gallery, New York
2016 The Tibet Fund 7th Annual Gala – Le Bernardin Privé, New York
2016 Affordable Art Fair– The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
2016 PP/S 20 Benefit Auction– City Assembly House, Dublin
2016 Ephemeral – Guy Hepner, New York
2016 9 Grams – Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, Texas
2016 Art Hamptons – Bridgehampton, NY
2016 Acrylic Melody II – Kuumba Vlaams, Brussels
2016 The Big Dance – Viaduct Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2016 Acrylic Melody – Maison Burganov, Brussels
2016 A Touch of Blue – Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Quadratfuss – NX², Berlin
2016 Interdisciplinary – Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA
2015 Retrospective exhibition – Backloft Gallery, Dublin
2015 Sweet Tooth –The New Bohemian Gallery, MN
2015 Motley – Hive Emerging, Waterford, Ireland
2015 Creativity – Art Baza, Sergiyev Posad, Moscow
2015 Saw Dust – The MART, Rathmines, Dublin
2015 Here ‘n’ Now – Greenacres, Wexford, Ireland
2015 Surveyor Exhibition– Solstice Art Centre, Navan, Ireland
2015 Grogans ongoing exhibition – South William Street, Dublin
2012 Graduate Exhibition –NCAD, Thomas St, Dublin
2009 Achieving Art Exhibition –The Bernard Shaw, Dublin
2005 Dualism in America –Tenement Museum – New York
Residencies
2020 (upcoming) Guest Residency – Gallery 66, New Mexico
2020 (upcoming) Studio Residency – Bourgogne, France
2020 Forest lake residency - Sligo, Ireland
2019 Research residency – La Tambouille, Nézel, France
2017 Guest Residency – Atelierhaus– Munich, Germany
2015 Project 2 (collaborative) – MART – Rathmines, Dublin 6
Awards
2019 Artist development grant – Meath County Council
2015 6th Artslant Showcase winner – Contemporary art network
2015 Artist Project Initiative – Finalist for 2015 award
2015 Colourful Abstractions – Fusion Art – work selected for online juried exhibition
Publications
2020 Artists in Lockdown - Interview and images published online
2020 MSN In The Know - Video feature on Microsoft Network
2020 Pandemic Portraits - Image and interview published online
2020 JournALL Art Programme - Images and interview featured
2017 Create Magazine – Issue V – Images featured
2017 Average Art Magazine – Images featured
2017 Assintecal magazine – Image featured
2016 This Greedy Pig – Interview and images featured
2016 Artist Portfolio Magazine – Images and bio published
2016 Imago Mundi – inclusion in book and exhibition
2016 Vulture Magazine – interview / video published online
2016 Vice – The Creators Project (Mexico) – Images and article
2016 Palaver Journal – image published – Spring Issue
2016 Fresh Paint Magazine – Tips and advice published – Issue 11
2015 Fresh Paint Magazine – Images published – Issue 10
2015 Dublin Inquirer – Image and interview published –16th Dec.
2015 L.A. Eyeworks- Artistic collaboration with Josef Jasso
2015 Forward (Russian Newspaper) – Interview– 29th Oct.
2015 Art Reveal Magazine – Interview and images published – Issue 7
2008 Building Brunelleschi’s Dome – Illustrations – Construction History Journal, V 23
Bio
Born in New York, raised in Ireland, Derick Smith initially began a career in design before moving on to chemical photography which resulted in a solo exhibition in New York (2006). Later, he moved onto sculpture and painting after graduating from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2012) and has since exhibited in national and international exhibitions.
His work explores the properties and behaviour of materials as an analogous simulation and investigation into contemporary life. Although paintings at heart the work is sculptural in nature and shifts boundaries between static and dynamic by exploring the edges of wet and dry materials in surprising and intriguing ways using a playful rather than austere tone.
His work is held in the O.P.W state art collection of Ireland and private collections in France, Germany, Japan, U.S.A and the U.K.