SMITH/STEWART
Stephanie Smith
1968 born Manchester, England
Art Education
1986-87 Foundation Year, Manchester Polytechnic
1987-91 BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
1991-93 Participating artist, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Edward Stewart
1961 born Belfast, N.Ireland
Art Education
1984-85 Foundation Year, University of Ulster
1985-88 BA Fine Art &
1988-90 MA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
1990-92 Participating artist, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
SMITH/STEWART work & live together in Glasgow, Scotland.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1997 Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1998 Hooded.Bared., Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1999 NGBK, Berlin, Germany
1999 Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
1999 Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London
1999 Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2000 In camera, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
2002 A Black Thread, Chisenhale Gallery, London (a Film and Video Umbrella Touring Exhibition commissioned in association with Chisenhale Gallery)
2004 Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (a Film and Video Umbrella Touring Exhibition commissioned in association with Milton Keynes Gallery)
2005 Gi: Glasgow International, 1st Floor, 64 Osborne St., Glasgow
2007/8 Enter Love and Enter Death, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
2011 What have we done?, The Changing Room, Stirling
Selected Group Exhibitions
1995 Video Positive, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1995 X/Y, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1995/6 Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1996 Now Here, Louisiana MOMA, Humlebaek, Denmark
1996 Electronic Undercurrents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997/8 Correspondences: Scotland/Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin & Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1998 Pandaemonium, LEA Gallery, London
1999 Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
1999/00 Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela & Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco, USA
2000 The Anagrammatical Body - The Body and its Medial Construction, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 Mixing Memory and Desire, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2001 Black Box. The Dark Room in Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2002 afterthelostones, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, Canada
2002 Sensitive Screens: Videoart of the 90's, Fundacio "La Caixa", Lerida, Spain
2002 The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
2002 Tate Modern, video room, London
2002 New: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2002 Self Evident: the artist as the subject 1969-2002, Tate Britain, London
2003 Into the Breach, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003 Orifice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Incommunicado, Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition, The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich
2005/6 Night Sites, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2006 Into Me/Out of Me, Kunst Werke ICA, Berlin, Germany
2007/8 Words in Art, Mart- Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
2009/10 Emporte-moi / Sweep me off my feet, Musee d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Quebec, Canada & MACVAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, France
2012/13 Acts of Voicing: On the Poetics and Politics of the Voice,
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Autumn/Winter 2012/13)
Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong (Spring 2013)
Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (Autumn 2013)
Collections
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Toyama Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Fondation Leschot, Bern, Switzerland
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Contemporary Art Society, London / Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Arts Council Collection, London
Tate Gallery, London
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Selected Solo Publications
1998 Fruitmarket Gallery catalogue, Edinburgh (ill.), ISBN: 9780947912529
1999 Kunstmuseum Luzern & Portikus, Frankfurt catalogue, Luzern & Frankfurt am Main, text by Ulrich Loock (ill.), ISBN 9783267001287
1999 Godforsaken Hole / Free Hand publication, Barbican Centre, London, text by Francis McKee (ill.), ISBN 0 946372 37 3
2000 In Camera catalogue, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada text by Michele Theriault (ill.), ISBN 0921972296
2000 Ahead, publication, Codax Publisher, Zurich, Switzerland, text by Ulrich Loock (ill.), ISBN 3-9521227-4-2
2001 Smith/Stewart Film & Video Umbrella minigraph publication, London (ill.), ISBN 978-1-84166-074-5
2004 A Black Thread publication, Film & Video Umbrella, London, text by Tom McCarthy (ill.), ISBN 978-1-904270-08-9
2009 Enter Love and Enter Death publication, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (ill.), ISBN 978-1-906129-24-8
Selected Reviews
2002 A Black Thread, Chisenhale Gallery reviews:
Art Monthly Dec.02 - Jan. 03, Mark Wilsher, (ill.)
Time Out Nov. 27 - Dec. 4 2002, Rebecca Geldard (ill.)
Evening Standard Claire Bishop
2003 Contemporary issue no. 47 / 48, Gabriel Coxhead (ill.)
2004 'Milton Keynes Gallery, Smith/Stewart', Jane Neal, Contemporary, issue no.62
2005 Glasgow International reviews, including:
'Reaping its just rewards', Moira Jeffrey, The Herald, 29 April
Catriona Black, The Sunday Herald , 1 May
Iain Gale, Scotland on Sunday, 1 May (ill.)
'Glasgow International 2005', Alexander Kennedy, Map, Issue 2, Summer 2005
2007 Enter Love and Enter Death, Inverleith House reviews:
'Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death', Rosalie Doubal, The List, 15-29 Nov, Issue 590
'The space in which we move', Jack Mottram, The Herald, Friday 30 November
'Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death', Kirsten Norrie, Art Monthly, Dec-Jan 07-08, No. 312
2008 'Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death', Rosamund West, The Skinny, January 08
'Negotiating a maze of hidden meaning', Susan Mansfield, Scotsman Review, The Scotsman, Friday 11 January
'Fine lines between love and death', Iain Gale, Review Arts, Scotland on Sunday, January 13
2011 ‘The fruit of their actions’, Laura Edbrook, MAP no. 25, Summer 2011