John Smith (born 1952, Walthamstow, England) is a British avant gardefilmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon the film spectator's conditioned assumptions of the medium.
John Smith studied film at the Royal College of Art. After graduating in 1977, he became involved in the activities of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op. Strongly influenced by conceptual art and the structural materialist ideas that dominated British artists' filmmaking at that time, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, he has developed a body of work that reworks and transforms reality, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema.[citation needed]
Since 1972, Smith has made over 50 film, video and installation works that have been shown in cinemas, art galleries and on television around the world and awarded major prizes at film festivals, including Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Cork Film Festival; Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film; 'Punto de Vista' Documentary Festival, Pamplona; Hamburg Short Film Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Uppsala Short Film Festival and Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva. His solo exhibitions include Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2017, 2015, 2013, 2012 and 2010), Alma Zevi, Venice (2017), Kate MacGarry, London (2016), Wolverhampton Art Gallery (2016), Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (2015), La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris (2014), Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2012), Turner Contemporary, Margate (2012), Weserburg Museum of Contemporary Art, Bremen (2012), Uppsala Art Museum (2011), Sala Diaz Gallery, San Antonio, Texas (2010), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2006), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2005), Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2003) and Pearl Gallery, London (2003). A major retrospective exhibition of his work from 1972 to 2010 curated by the graduating students of the Royal College of Art Curating Contemporary Art Course took place in 2010 at the RCA Galleries.[3] Smith regularly presents his work in person and it has been profiled at retrospectives at the 2007 Venice Biennale and film festivals in Oberhausen, Cork, Tampere, St. Petersburg, Mexico City, Uppsala, Sarajevo, Vilnius, Prizren, Bristol, Munich, Regensburg, Karlstad, Lussas and La Rochelle.
Smith lives and works in London. He is Professor Emeritus of Fine Art at University of East London. In 2011 he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists and in 2013 he won Film London’s Jarman Award.[4] His work is held in numerous collections, including Arts Council England; Tate Gallery; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz; Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Miami; Kunstmuseum Magdeburg; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
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