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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Priestcraft, Broadway Theater with CUAC, SLC, UT
2015 Wars and Rumors of Wars, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2012 Fiend in the Void, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC
Soul Flayer, Gallery 468, Provo, UT
2011 Doomslangers, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, Utah
2010 Doomslangers: A Project by Casey Jex Smith, Allegra Laviola Gallery, NYC
2009 Gird Your Elves, and Be Broken in Pieces, LaViolaBank Gallery, NYC
2008 Materials Unorganized, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
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
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014 Voices and Visions, Casey Jex Smith & Carrie Day, Launch Pad Cooperative, Toledo, OH
2013 Glimmerguts, Casey Jex Smith & Ryan Browning, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
2012 Tim Gawesky and Casey Jex Smith, Art Supply Depo, Toledo, OH
2010 Casey Jex Smith, John Casey, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Stock Up on Heal and Mana Potions, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 Come, Come, Ye Saints! And Temple Bilds, Fifty50 Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Periscope, curated by Jimmy Viera, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2016 Geo Necro, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
New American Paintings: Midwest Edition, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Monstalgia, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AR
2015 The Flat File: Year 3, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Chat Allors!, le Bel Ordinaire, Bordeaux, France
House Sale #24 Auction, Paddle8.com
2, Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
Pizza Party, Airlock Gallery, San Marcos, CA
Big Heads, Heroes, and Dancing Dogs, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Sketchbook, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2014 Ducks, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Under the Influence, Phillips Auction House, NYC
New American Color, curated by Jefferson Nelson, Dean & Sons Automotive, Toledo, OH
Utah Ties, Central Utah Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Forever Young: Art Contemporain, Piasa, Paris, France
2013 Possessed, Keystone Fine Arts, curated by Idol Wild, LA, CA
Thirteen Twenty Three Exhibition, 964 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY
Between Blisters and Blue Skies, Launch Pad Collective, Toledo, OH
Utah Biennial: Mondo Utah, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tin, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
Instructions 13, (SCENE)Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
2012 Strange Lands, curated by Christopher Daniels, Cindy Rucker Gallery, NYC
We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary Art, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
Secret Decoder Ring, curated by Adam Bateman, HPGRP Gallery, NYC
Where My Cones At?, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, Double Break, San Diego, CA
and POVevolving Gallery, LA, CA
Black Foliage, curated by Matthew Craven, 48 Bowery, NYC
Black Foliage 2, curated by Matthew Craven, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD
The Day on Fire: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Fax, The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dungeons and Dragons on & Ever Onward, Soho Gallery for Digital Art, NYC
2011 Transformed by Light: Exploring Personal Enlightenment, B.F. Larsen Gallery, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Drawing Now Paris with Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
On Spirituality: Emerging Visions of the Spiritual, Gallery 842, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2010 Things Are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Weight Perception, curated by Andrew Schoultz, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
An Impossible Match, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Friends of Friends, GARFO Art Center, SLC, UT
Phantasmorganica, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC
2009 Take the A Train, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Paper, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, ILL
Regime Change, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
The Bright Darkness, Sweetart Drawing Gallery, Oakland, CA
Summer Salon, LaViolaBank Gallery, NYC
2008 Selections Spring 2008, The Drawing Center, NYC
The Brand New Deal, Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC
The Exquisite Line, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
microwave 6, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC
Freak of Nature, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Surreal Naivete, M.Y. Art Prospects, NYC
Year 1, LaViolaBank Gallery, NYC
l’experience utile, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
West, Wester, Westest, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Bliss, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
The Total Power of Such a Signal Is Infinite, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
Three Solo Shows, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2006 East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Utopia, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dowser’s Delight, Front Gallery, Oakland, CA
5ives, Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2005 Pacific Lines, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
Lobot Retrospective, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Paper!Awesome!, curated by Brion Nuda RoschPigman Gallery, San Francisco
2004 19th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art Exhibit, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
The Drawing Box Show, Mobile Art Gallery, The Luggage Store in the Street Festival, San Francisco, CA
Paper Awesome!, Mimi Barr, San Francisco, CA
2001 Minute: a boxed set of miniature multiples, curated by Letha Wilson, Artists Space, NYC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 The 11th Annual Drawing Annual, Manifest Press Publications
2016 Fantasy meets art in ADA Gallery's Dungeons & Dragons-inspired 'Geo Necro Exhibit, rvamag.com, Jun 6
2015 Geoff Wichert, This I Believe: Casey Jex Smith at Writ & Vision, 15bytes.com, Oct. 1
New American Paintings, Midwest Edition, August
Foragepress.com, April 23
2014 Ivanna De La Rosa, Casey Jex Smith, Interview, Chapter89magazine.com, Sept. 30
Recent Works from Casey Jex Smith, Juxtapoz.com, Aug. 12
Casey Jex Smith, Booooooom.com, Aug. 8
2013 Patrick Gantert, Casey Jex Smith: A Video Interview, Wowhuh.com, Jan. 21
2012 Brienne Walsh, Casey Jex Smith: Fiend in the Void, Art Review Magazine, Dec.
Art Critical, The Review Panel w/ panelists Donald Kuspit, PHoebe Hoban, and Nora Griffin, at the National Academy Museum, NYC, Oct. 26
Katya Kazakina, Bearded Romney, Wizard Obama, Voters Star in Art Shows, Bloomberg.com, Oct. 29
Andrea Aguilar, El arte entra en la campaña de EE UU, El País.com, Oct. 20
Andy Khouri, Parting Shot: Obama Vs. Romney 'Dungeons & Dragons' Game To Determine Artist's Vote, Comicsalliance.com, Oct. 10
Christine Roberts, Mock 2012 presidentioal election showdown to be decided Dungeons and Dragons style, NY Daily News, Oct. 9
Ethan Gilsdorf, Obama vs. Romney D&D Smack-Down at NYC Gallery, Geekdad, Wired.com, Oct. 9
Ethan Gilsdorf, Obama vs. Romney D&D Smack-Down Update: Obama Wins!, Geekdad, Wired.com, Oct. 16
Julia Helperin, Artist Casey Jex Smith Offers His Vote as Prize in Election-Based Performance Art Battle, Artinfo.com, Oct. 5
Interview: Casey Jex Smith, finelinemagazine.tumblr.com, April 10
Priscilla Frank, Mitt Romney's 'Dungeons and Dragons' Makeover in New Art Exhibition, Huffingtonpost, Jan. 4
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
Casey Jex Smith and the Mormon Church, Justapoz.com, May 13
Clark Goldsberry, Casey Jex Smith: Artist, Utah Valley University Review, Oct. 10
Shawn Rossiter, Transformed by Light, 15 bytes, Oct. 25
Brian Droitcour, Big Reality, Rhizome.org, Mar. 23
Ethan Gilsdorf, How "Dungeons & Dragons" changed my life, Salon.com, Mar. 8
Dewitt Chang, Double Dare at Swarm Gallery, East Bay Express, Jan. 5
2010 Fine Line Magazine, issue 1, November
Tavis Allison, Dungeons and Dragons in Non-Contemporary Art, muleabides.wordpress.com, Nov. 18
Ashlie Cotton, Dungeons and Dragons in an LES Gallery, thelowdownny.com, Oct. 27
Joel Riff, Parcours Marais Dessin, artnet.com.fr, 25 March
Marie-Jeanne Caprasse, Casey Jex Smith et John Casey, paris-art.com, April
Theric Jepson, Couple-Creators: Casey Jex Smith / Amanda Michelle Smith, motleyvison.org, March 31
Theo Konrad Auer, Q & A: The Art of Casey Jex Smith, theoakbook.com, Feb. 23
Brendan Monroe, Casey Jex Smith, beautifuldecay.com, January 5
John Trippe, Blesofsky, Smith, & Anderson @ Swarm Gallery, fecalface.com, Feb.2
Jessica Brier, Reverse Subliminal Messaging, ereview.org, March 2
Buck Obrien, Swarm Gallery, examiner.com, March 12
2009 Roxana Azimi, Le Paris du dessin, le Journal des Arts, #299, March
Nancy Smith, Casey Jex Smith/LaViolaBank opens tonight!, artloversnewyork.com, June
Erin Loechner, Interview, Mankind Magazine, Issue 7
2008 Jakki Spicer, Casey Jex Smith – Materials Unorganized at Swarm Gallery, Artweek, November
Cate McQuaid, Story Line, Boston Globe, October
Debra Jenks, Drawing the Invisible, Chelsea Now, Volume 2, #25, March
Marisa Olson, Drawn Out Processes, Rhizome, July
Lauren Weinberg, Casey Jex Smith, Time Out Chicago, Issue 175, July
DARE Magazin, Issue #2
Casey Jex Smith: Church Drawings, Mormon Artists Group, edition of 65
2007 Salvador Castillo, The Total Power of Such a Signal is Infinite, glasstire.com, September
Max Goldberg, The There, There, San Francisco Bay Guardian, December, 12
Colin Delaney, Casey Jex Smith: Christ! That’s Good, Empty Magazine, issue #10
Jakki K. Spicer, 200 Second Street, East Bay Express, June
Petra Bibeau, There Is No End to Matter, Marginal, Issue #2, June/July
Bob Calloway, Artfever, June
Upcoming Exhibitions, Artweek, April
2006 Kenneth Baker, Played backward or forward, video at YBCA makes for unsettling images, San Francisco Chronicle, December
Johnny Ray Huston, Local Artist, San Francisco Bay Guardian, October
Katie Kurtz, 5ives, San Francisco Bay Guardian, July
Bob Calloway, Artfever, September
Chris Pew, Fecalface Interview, July
Geoff Wichert, Sexual Dimorphism & the Sacred Profane, 15bytes, February
Zyzzyva, issue #74
Neomu, issues #7 and #8
LECTURES/PANELS
2016 New American Paintings, Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Toledo
2015 Visiting Artist Lecture, Brigham Young University
2013 Amanda and Casey Jex Smith, Tea Time Lecture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
2012 Casey Jex Smith, Tea Time Lecture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
2011 Transformed by LIght, in conjunction with exhibition, Transformed by LIght at Brigham Young University 303 Gallery, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
2010 Dungeons & Dragons in Contemporary Art, panel discussion in conjunction with the Doomslangers exhbition at Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC
2009 Casey Jex Smith, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
RESIDENCIES
2014 Summer Micro-Residency Program, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
2007-8 Affiliate Artist Program, Headland Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1994 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Summer Seminar
CURATION
2017 The Huge Benefit Art Show, Mestizo Gallery, SLC, UT
2016 Geo Necro, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA (co-curated with Ryan Browning)
2010 Doomslangers, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC
2007 Fired!, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA