Education:
2015
● B.A. Studio Art and Landscape Studies, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
2025 (Anticipated)
● M.F.A., Studio Art, CUNY Hunter, New York, NY
● Advanced Curatorial Certificate, Hunter College, New York, NY
2024
● Klasse Pernice, universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Collectives
2021-Present
● White Columns, Artist Registry, New York City,NY
2019-2022
● The Front, Member
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2022
●Study of Wind on Grass, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2021
● Did your boyfriends ever come over and try to use your dads dental equipment to do balance beam stuff, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2020
● Where I go, The Front, New Orleans, LA
● Men in Agony, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019
● Six Simple Machines, Aquarium Gallery, New Orleans, LA
● Mother’s Hands (in blue), Lucky Art Fair, New Orleans, LA
● Orifice, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
● Orifice, Springboard Arts, Fergus Falls, MN
● My Mother’s Last Garden, Art Klub, New Orleans, LA
● AS WE MOVE FURTHER FROM EACH OTHER ACROSS TIME/SPACE DIMENSIONS I FEEL YOUR ANGER INSIDE ME AND AM GRATEFUL FOR THE PROXIMITY, Southern Heat Exchange,New Orleans, LA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024
● Assembly, New Art Dealers Alliance, curated by Katie A. Pfohl
● The World Pulse Beats Beyond My Door, curated by Gunner Dongieux, Lili Marto, and Katia Leonelli, Brooklyn, NY
● Easy Apple, curated by Gunner Dongieux, New Orleans, LA
2023
● Playground and Dreams, Chashama, New York, NY
● Thank god every day the whole house did not burn down, 205 Hudson, New York, NY
● Vestigial Structures, 205 Hudson, New York, NY
● Terrible Terrible, 205 Hudson, New York, NY
2022
● Remember Earth?, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
● Summer Reading, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
● Monsters and Monstrosities, (Carson Smith and Rosalie Smith), The Front, New Orleans, LA
● Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
2021
● Nothing Toulouse, curated by Rosalie Smith, The Front, New Orlens, LA
● Flat File Exhibition, curated by Kate Mothes of Young Space, Collar Works
● Louisiana Contemporary, curated by Hallie Ringle of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
● Far and Wide, curated by Nicelle Beauchene and Franklin Parrasch of Parts & Labor Beacon, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum
● Watching the Palms Swirl a Sickening Pattern Past the Glass, Curated by Rosalie Smith, The Front, New Orleans, LA
● Make America What America Must Become, curated by George Scheer, Katrinne Neumann and Toccarra A.H. Thomas, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2020
● New Member Show, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2019
● Visions of Venus, St. Petersburg Women’s Collective, St. Petersburg, FL
● Farewell Show, Brand New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
● Ephemeral Voice, Book Club Gallery, New Orleans, LA
● Fabricated, Brand New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
● Constructing the Break, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Curatorial:
2022
● Curious Table, Curious Table was a three-part family-style dinner and exhibition series offering a multidisciplinary exploration of emerging, New Orleans-based artists. Personally founded, executed, and curated.
● Monsters and Monstrosities, (Carson Smith and Rosalie Smith), The Front, New Orleans, LA
2021
● Gas Station Projects, curator, founder, & facilitator, April 2021-present. A four part roving art exhibition series popping up in disused spaces in New Orleans. Personally founded, executed, and curated.
● Watching the Palms Swirl a Sickening Pattern Past the Glass, The Front, New Orleans, LA
● Uptown Laundry, New Orleans, LA
● Nothing Toulouse, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2020
● For all the parties I could not attend, Nailah Griffin, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2019
● Curator, Founder & Creative Director, Lucky Art Fair, New Orleans, LA. Conceptualized, founded, co-directed this experimental art fair, which had a socialist financial and curatorial model, ensuring that all artists had equal opportunity to be represented and paid by the fair, regardless of the marketability of their work. Provided microgrants to local BIPOC creatives in need in Fall 2020.
Grants, Workshops, & Residencies:
2022
● Salon Artist Residency, project of The Arts Council, New Orleans, LA
2021
● Penland School of Craft, Woodworking Workshop with Liz Koerner, scholarship recipient, Asheville,
NC
● Burnaway, Art Writing Intensive, scholarship recipient
2020
● Southern Heat Exchange (digital residency)
● Prospect Satelite Grant, Awarded in January 2020, for the second year of Lucky Art Fair, New
Orleans, LA
2019
● Hinge Arts at the Kirkbridge (career development residency), Fergus Falls, MN
● Art Klub, New Orleans, LA
2018
● Snow Farm Craft School, Monotype Printing Workshop. Teaching artist scholarship recipient, Williamsburg, MA,
2014
● Nes Artist Residency, Skargastrond, Iceland
Press:
● Pham, Andy. “Rosalie Smith, Study of Wind on Grass (The Front ).” Antigravity, Apr. 2022, pp. 37–37.
●https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/rosalie-smith-collective-grieFcac-new-orleans-1234590324/, ONE WORK: ROSALIE SMITH’S “MY MOTHER’S LAST GARDEN,” By Lauren Stroh, April 20, 2021
●https://burnaway.org/daily/a-portrait-of-time-collapsing-at-the-front-new-orleans/
● WWNO/Via NolaVie, “In search of radical equity: In conversation with Lucky Art Fair’s Rosalie Smith and Regina Parkinson,” David Bennedetto, AUG 29, 2019 https://www.vianolavie.org/2019/08/29/in-search-of-radical-equity-in-conversation-with-luck-art-fairs-rosalie-smith-and-regina-parkinson/
● Here Magazine, “Meet the New Orleans Artists Lifting Community Spirits,” Ally Betker https://www.heremagazine.com/articles/new-orleans-artists
● Here Magazine, “The Survival of New Orleans's Arts Community After Katrina,” Ally Betker https://www.heremagazine.com/articles/new-orleans-artists-katrina
● • The Advocate, “Want to get lucky? More than 35 artists take over a Mid-City locale for all-is-equal art installation,” Sue Strachan https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/article_862f4ce0-83d6-11e9-8382-87f6ccd64afe.html
● Fergus Falls Journal, “Exploring grief, death, and life: Rosalie Smith Explores the ephemeral through her Art,” Johanna Armstrong https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2019/04/exploring-grief-death-and-life-rosaliesmith-explores-the-ephemeral-through-her-art/?fbclid=IwAR3G3wH4gfShni2OZ3hbY-qTlRcvN1thuOhsNDGEtbCFbgmMfgLkVi4AnnM
● The Piece with Madame Kelso: Rosalie Smith & "Evoking the Father" by Sharon Hoffman, https://www.buzzsprout.com/247991/1044346
● Critics’ Picks: “Constructing the Break” at the Contemporary Arts Center, Nic Brierre Aziz , John D’addario, Taylor Murrow, September 18, 2018 http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2018/critics-picks-constructing-the-break-at-the-contemporary-arts-center