Killing Time Studios
William Smith


EDUCATION

1998 M.F.A., Printmaking, West Virginia University

1996 B.F.A., Printmaking, Sonoma State University

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT

  • 1999 - (present) Printmaking/Drawing Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 2000-04 Printmaking/Drawing Instructor, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca.
  • 1998 Lithography Technician, Weekend Atelier Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, Ca.
  • 1995 - (present) Printer, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, Ca.
  • 1997 Visiting Artist, Fairmont Junior College, Fairmont, WV

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • 2007 "& Blue", A St. Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 2006 "Small Works", The Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, Ca.
  • 2006 "Staff Picks", The Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, Ca.
  • 2006 “Killing Time”, Roshambo Winery Gallery, Healdsburg, Ca.
  • 2005 “Wet Paint” Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Fundraiser, Atwood Ranch, Glen Ellen, Ca.
  • 2005 “Fifty Under Fifty”, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, Ca.
  • 2004 “A Breach in the Ghostly Skin”, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, Ca.
  • 2004 “Bound By Habitat”, Museum of Contemporary Art,
  • Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 2003 “Art of the Draw”, Gallery at the Armory, Napa Valley College, Napa, Ca.
  • 2003 “Opposites Attack”, Roshambo Gallery, Healdsburg, Ca.
  • 2002 “Print Matters”, A St. Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 2001“Prints by Eight”, A St. Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 2001 “Operating Systems”, Susan Cummings Gallery, Mill Valley, Ca.
  • 2001 “Underfoot”, Associacao Alumni, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • 2000 “art.communicates”, S-Mova, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 1998 “Staring at the Walls for the Dailys”, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

SELECTED COMPETITIONS

  • 2006 “SMALL WORKS”, Arts Council of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 2005 “New Directions 2005”, Barret Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
  • 2005 “Sonoma Creates”, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, Ca.
  • 2005 “Delta National Small Prints Exhibition”, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
  • 2005 “A Show of Heads”, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, NY
  • *2003 “Sonoma Creates”, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, Ca.
  • 2003 “Sixteenth Annual McNeese State University Works on Paper, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, La.
  • *2002 “Delta National Small Prints Exhibition”, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
  • 2000 “Small Works”, S-Mova, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 1999 “Ink & Clay”, University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Ca.
  • 1999 “Positive/Negative 14”, Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
  • 1998 “California Small Works”, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • 1997 “West Virginia Juried Exhibition”, West Virginia Cultural Center, Charleston, WV
  • 1997 “Lagniappe”, Print Exhibition and Portfolio Exchange, Louisiana State University Gallery, Baton Rouge, La.
  • 1996 “Print Matters”, University Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, Ca.
  • 1996 “Expressions of the Male Soul”, Wilson St. Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca.

COMMISSIONS

  • 2006 Merchandise design for Stiff Dead Cat
  • 2004 T-Shirt Design, Art From The Heart Annual Art Auction, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca.
  • 2003 Wine Label, Imagery Estate Winery, Glen Ellen, Ca.
  • 2001 “Cows in Sonoma Valley”, Sonoma Plaza, Sonoma, Ca.

*AWARDS

  • 2003 Third Place Juror’s Award, “Sonoma Creates”, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, Ca.
  • 2002 Mary Lee and John Marcom Purchase Award, “Delta National Small Prints Exhibition”, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR

COLLECTIONS

  • 2003 Imagery Estate Winery, Glen Ellen, Ca.
  • 2002 Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR

PUBLICATIONS

  • Direct Art, SlowArt Productions, Phoenicia, NY, p. 109, Volume 13 - Fall/Winter, 2006
  • Nugent, Bob. Imagery: Art for Wine. San Francisco, CA. The Wine Appreciation Guild 2006. p. 226-227
  • Colin Berry, “A Growing Body of Shrinking Work”, Art Contemporaries, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, p.26 (SantaRosa, Ca.), Summer 2004
  • Synapse #2, Floating Coffin Publishing, (Santa Cruz, Ca.), Summer 2004
  • Synapse #1, Floating Coffin Publishing, Front/Back/Inside Covers, p.3, 28, 29, (Santa Cruz, Ca.), Spring 2004
  • Davina Baum, The Sonoma County Bohemian, Visual Arts, February 27, 2003

CATALOGUES

  • 16th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, p.15, 2003
  • Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, p. 23 & p.39, 2002
  • Under Foot, Associacao Alumni, Sao Paulo, Brazil, p.24, 2001-2002
  • Positive Negative 14, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State Univ., Deptl of Art and Design, p. 17, 1999