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Zack Smithey is an interdisciplinary artist who continues to evolve, explore new concepts, designs and creative processes. Smithey has been working as a professional artist for the last 20 years and taught high school art for 7 years. In addition to showing in galleries, he paints murals, works with designers, agencies, and clients to source art from his inventory or create custom commissions. He has hundreds of pieces in his current inventory and over 3,000 original pieces in public, private and corporate collections.
Shipping Container Homes
In addition to art, Zack designed, consulted and oversaw the construction for the first 2 shipping container homes in the St. Louis area (St. Charles, 2016) and Old North neighborhood, STL, 2019.
- Container Home Exterior
- Container Home Interior
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See his home on NETFLIX - Amazing Interiors, episode 3, house 2.
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See a 3D virtual tour of the inside
Notable Commissions + Shows + Published
Smithey has had over 100 solo and group shows (NYC, NJ, STL, Palm Beach, Palm Springs, Laguna Beach, La Jolla), has done art/film work for Lincoln Center in NYC (A Short Film for the End of Time - Part 1, Part 2), created a series of art videos for world renowned pianist Inon Barnatan (Darknesse Visible - La Valse, Ondine, Fantasy of Peter Grimes, Darknesse Visible, Le Gibet ), commissioned by Boeing to create 2 steel sculptures for their STL headquarters, commissioned performance piece for the La Jolla Music Society - Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, is the creator of the Easter Art Hunt in STL, was commissioned to do Album art for Smother Party in Brooklyn, and has been published in the New Yorker, Sophisticated Living, ShoutOut LA, CURBED, Newsweek, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis At Home Magazine, All The Art, INSIDER, St. Louis Magazine, StreetScapes Magazine, St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, Uptown Magazine, Community News, Lindenwood Connection and St. Charles Magazine. He has been covered/interviewed on NETFLIX, KCTV5, NBC, Fox, CBS, and USA Today
Education
BFA - Studio Art, Lindenwood University 2006
MA - Education, Lindenwood University 2009
Career
Interdisciplinary Professional Artist - 2001 - present
Art Teacher - Francis Howell North High - 2006-2013
United Scenic Artists Union - St. Louis MUNY - Nation's oldest + largest outdoor theater - 2005-2010
Galleries/Exhibits
Hamptons Art Fair - Art Market Productions - Aug. 13-15, 2021
Trace Contemporary Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 - present
Carousel Fine Art, Miami, FL 2020 - present
BlinkGroup Gallery, Miami, FL 2021 - present
Carousel Art Group, Miami, FL / New York 2021 - present
Rubine Red Gallery, Palm Springs, CA – Solo show, 11/2019
La Jolla Music Society, Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, Performance piece, 9/2019
MAC - St. Louis – Solo show, 2019
Cherokee Street Gallery - St. Louis – 2018-2019
Last Hotel STL – curator and artist – 2019-2020
Lincoln Center - NYC, "A Short Film for the End of Time" 2009
"Darknesse Visible" - A series of vignettes for classical pianist Inon Barnatan, 2012
TOC Artworks - art agency, 2017 - present
Avra Gallery - Margate City, New Jersey, Miami 2018 – present – solo show, 2019
Balatro Gallery - Worth Ave. Palm Beach, 2018-2019
Houska Gallery - St. Louis, 2015-2018
MAC - STL, Solo show, “Twain’s World”, 2014
Vino Gallery - St. Louis, 2011 – 2015
East Carolina University - visiting artist – solo show, gallery talk, 2011
Concrete Ocean Gallery - STL – Solo show, 2010
Art Dimensions - STL – Solo show, 2010
Published
Newsweek - "Man Makes Incredible Portrait of Nikola Tesla Using Electricity"
Sophisticated Living - "Art As Cool As The Artist" May 2021
https://www.sophisticatedstlouis.com/home/2021/4/28/art-as-cool-as-the-artist
Shoutout LA - "Meet Zack Smithey" April 2021
https://shoutoutla.com/meet-zack-smithey-professional-interdisciplinary-artist/
The New Yorker - Alex Ross - "Messiaen Video", 2009
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/alex-ross/messiaen-video
Lincoln Center, NYC - A Short Film for the End of Time
part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QrGzES0UNk
part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNbjQTSkin0
Netflix - Amazing Interiors, episode 3, house #2
St. Charles Container Home, Fall 2018
INSIDER Business + Art, February 2020 https://www.insider.com/homes-made-out-of-shipping-containers-2020-1
Easter Art Hunt Documentary – Directed by Imani Marshall, "Smithey", April 14th, 2017
News Channel 5 - Rene Knott - "This May be One of the Most Unique Homes In St. Louis", Old North Container Home, Jan. 9th, 2019
KMOV 4 - Alexis Zotos - "First of its Kind Home Made of Shipping Containers", Old North Container Home, Oct 1, 2018
Curbed Magazine - Mary Jo Bowling - St. Charles Container Home "A 3,100-square-foot, $135K container house lets its owners live mortgage free", September 11th, 2017
https://www.curbed.com/2017/9/11/16234506/shipping-container-home-tour-missouri
St. Louis At Home Magazine - "Look Inside a Recycled Shipping Container Home", St. Charles Container home, Feb. 16, 2017
https://www.stlmag.com/home/salvaged-beauty/
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - "Jaws will be dropped: Tour this St. Charles Home Built out of Shipping Containers", March 12th, 2017
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - "Remember that St. Charles home of shipping containers? It's on Netflix's 'Amazing Interiors' ", Aug. 7th, 2018
Show-Me St. Louis - Heidi Glaus, "Step Inside a Crazy Cool Container Home" March 22nd, 2017
NextSTL - https://nextstl.com/2018/01/container-home-planned-old-north-st-louis/
St. Louis Post- Dispatch - Sarah Bryan Miller, "Artist Prepares a Different Kind of Easter Egg Hunt", March 29th, 2015
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sarah Bryan Miller, "Zack Smithey's Easter Art Hunt Gets a Great Response" - April 6th, 2015
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sarah Bryan Miller, "Zack Smithey to Hold Second Easter Art Hunt" Feb. 24th, 2016
Fox 2 News - Patrick Clark, "Artist Buries Art Across St. Louis" March 30th, 2015
https://fox2now.com/2015/03/30/artist-buries-art-across-st-louis-for-easter-hunt/
News Channel 5 - Bailey E Kinney, Art Holliday, Mike Bush "Easter Art Hunt Underway This Week", March 21st 2016
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/easter-art-hunt-underway-this-week/63399460
National Arts Program - Associated Press, "Artist Gives Away 1,000 Pieces of Art for Easter" March 2016
https://www.nationalartsprogram.org/news/artist-gives-away-1000-pieces-of-art-easter
Caradise Found - Blog "In the Studio with Zack Smithey" https://caradisefound.com/2016/04/11/in-the-studio-with-zack-smithey/
Awards
2018 Outstanding Young Missourian, Nominated by the Missouri Jaycees, Recognized by the Missouri House of Representatives
2005 – 2006 - Dorothy & Sterling Mollett Art Award Lindenwood University – Honors Convocation
Links
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Netflix - Amazing Interiors, episode 3, house #2
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Lincoln Center, NYC - A Short Film for the End of Time
part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QrGzES0UNk
part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNbjQTSkin0
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Darknesse Visible, NYC
La Valse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5VpdvPOfEk&list=PL1396D0128D2D49E8&index=3
Ondine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPEO2K2zcek&list=PL1396D0128D2D49E8&index=5
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La Jolla Music Society, Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
Performance piece - https://www.instagram.com/p/B184gvDj21H/
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Easter Art Hunt Documentary – Directed by Imani Marshall, "Smithey", April 14th, 2017
