b. 1976
EDUCATION
M.F.A in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, 2005B.F.A. in Painting, Brigham Young University, 2003
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 New Work, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC (forthcoming)2011 selected works from Doomslangers, The Flea Theatre, NYC
2011 Doomslangers, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
2010 Doomslangers, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC
2009 Gird Your Elves and Be Broken in Pieces, LaViolaBank Gallery, NYC
2008 Matter Unorganized, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 New Work, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 That Day and that Night and that Day, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2007 There Is No End To Matter, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 New Work, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, Ut
2003 Three Grids: Past, Past, Present, Provo Arts Council Gallery, Provo, Ut
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010 Casey Jex Smith, John Casey, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France2010 Stock Up on Heal and Mana Potions, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 2006 Come, Come, Ye Saints! And Temple Bilds, Fifty50 Gallery, Chicago, Ill
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Dungeons and Dragons On & Ever Onward, Soho Gallery for Digital Art, NYC2011 Transformed by Light: Exploring Personal Enlightenment, B.F. Larsen Gallery, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
2011 Drawing Now Paris with Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
2011 On Spirituality: Emerging Visions of the Spiritual, Gallery 842, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2010 Things Are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010 Weight Perception, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 An Impossible Match, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
2010 Phantasmorganica, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC
2010 Indulgences, Concertina Gallery at GOFFO @ NEXT, Chicago, ILL
2010 Friends of Friends, GARFO Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2009 Take the A Train, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
2009 Summer Salon, LaViolaBank Gallery, NYC
2009 Paper, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, ILL
2009 Regime Change, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 The Bright Darkness, Sweetart Drawing Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 Selections Spring 2008, The Drawing Center, NYC
2008 microwave 6, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC
2008 L'Experience Utile, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
2008 The Exquisite Line, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2008 Surreal Naivete, M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, NYC
2008 The Brand New Deal, Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC
2008 Bring the Noise, WMFU Benefit, Printed Matter, NYC
2008 West, Wester, Westest, Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Freak of Nature, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2007 Bliss, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2007 The Total Power of Such a Signal Is Infinite, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
2007 Three Solo Shows, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2007 The Coloring Book, Univesity of Colorado, Colorado Springs Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2006 East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 Utopia, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Dowser's Delight, Front Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 5ives, Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2005 Pacific Lines, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
2005 Lobot Retrospective, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 Paper!Awesome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco
2004 19th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art Exhibit, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
2004 The Drawing Box Show, Mobile Art Gallery, The Luggage Store in the Street Festival, San Francisco, CA
2004 Paper Awesome!, Mimi Barr, San Francisco, CA
2004 L.P.'s, Provo Art Council Gallery, Provo, UT
2001 Minute: a boxed set of miniature multiples, Artists Space, NYC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Priscilla Frank, Mitt Romney's 'Dungeons And Dragons' Makeover in New Art Exhibition, Huffingtonpost, Jan. 42012 Ethan Gilsdorf, Mitt Romney as a D&D Character? NYC Show Celebrates Art and Gaming, Wired.com, Jan. 4
2011 Michael Tresca, Dungeons & Dragons in Contemporary Art, Examiner.com, March 10
2011 Shawn Rossiter, Transformed by Light, 15bytes, Oct. 25
2011 The Work of Casey Jex Smith, Juxtapoz.com, Dec. 31
2011 Brian Droitcour, Big Reality, Rhizome, Mar. 23
2011 Ethan Gilsdorf, How "Dungeons & Dragons" changed my life, Salon.com, Mar. 8
2011 Dewitt Chang, Double Dare at Swarm Gallery, East Bay Express, Jan. 5
2010 Ashlie Cotton, Dungeons and Dragons in an LES Gallery, The Lo-Down: News from the Lower East Side, Oct. 27
2010 Joel Riff, Parcours Marais Dessin, artnet.com.fr, 25 March
2010 Marie-Jeanne Caprasse, Casey Jex Smith et John Casey, paris-art.com, April
2010 Theric Jepson, Couple-Creators: Casey Jex Smith / Amanda Michelle Smith, motleyvision.org, March 31
2010 Theo Konrad Auer, Q & A: The Art of Casey Jex Smith, theoakbook.com, Feb. 23
2010 Brendan Monroe, Casey Jex Smith, beautifuldecay.com, January 5
2010 John Trippe, Blesofsky, Smith, & Anderson @ Swarm Gallery, fecalface.com, Feb.2
2010 Jessica Brier, Reverse Subliminal Messaging, ereview.org, March 2
2010 Buck Obrien, Swarm Gallery, examiner.com, March 12
2009 Roxana Azimi, Le Paris du dessin, Le Journal des Arts, #299, March
2009 Nancy Smith, Casey Jex Smith/LaViolaBank opens tonight!, artloversnewyork.com, June
2009 Erin Loechner, Interview, Mankind Magazine, issue 7
2008 Jakki Spicer, Casey Jex Smith – Materials Unorganized at Swarm Gallery, Artweek, November
2008 Cate McQuaid, Story Line, Boston Globe, October
2008 Debra Jenks, Drawing the Invisible, Chelsea Now, Volume 2, #25, March
2008 Marisa Olson, Drawn Out Processes, Rhizome, July
2008 Lauren Weinberg, Casey Jex Smith, Time Out Chicago, Issue 175, July
2008 DARE Magazin, Issue #2
2008 Casey Jex Smith: Church Drawings, Mormon Artists Group, edition of 65
2008 Theo Konrad Auer, Art, Religion, and Success, The Oakbook, September
2007 Max Goldberg, The There, There, San Francisco Bay Guardian, December, 12
2007 Colin Delaney, Casey Jex Smith: Christ! That’s Good, Empty Magazine, issue #10
2007 Jakki K. Spicer, 200 Second Street, East Bay Express, June
2007 Petra Bibeau, There Is No End to Matter, Marginal, Issue #2, June/July
2007 Bob Calloway, Artfever, June
2007 Upcoming Exhibitions, Artweek, April
2007 Woodall Angela, Public hasn't caught up with Oakland's buzzing art scene, Oakland Tribune, April15
2007 Salvador Castillo, The Total Power of Such a Signal is Infinite, Glasstire, September
2007 Theo Konrad Auer, Sweet Art, issue #7
2006 Kenneth Baker, Played backward or forward, video at YBCA makes for unsettling images, San Francisco Chronicle, December
2006 Johnny Ray Huston, Local Artist, San Francisco Bay Guardian, October
2006 Katie Kurtz, 5ives, San Francisco Bay Guardian, July
2006 Bob Calloway, Artfever, September
2006 Chris Pew, Fecalface Interview, July
2005 Geoff Wichert, Sexual Dimorphism & the Sacred Profane, 15bytes, February
2005 Zyzzyva, issue #74
2005 Neomu, issue #8
2004 Neomu, issue #7