What makes the SMITH contemporary different is its curatorial focus, and intention. Besides the intense interest of the World focused on the mainstream landscape of contemporary art, we expect to draw upon and champion the artist with a voice redefining all mediums of contemporary art. SMITH contemporary will continue conceptualizing and bringing to fruition important, meaningful and necessary exhibitions.  

DIRECTOR

Terrence Sanders-Smith has contributed to the landscape of contemporary art as an artist, gallerist, curator, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Artvoices Magazine, Turnstile Magazine, Art Thug Magazine (ATM) and Artvoices Books. Sanders-Smith’s mission as Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine (Established 2008) was to create a platform for emerging, neglected and under recognized artists who were creating necessary, important and relevant works of art. Sanders-Smith is the Father of noted artist Lucien Smith. Sanders-Smith has directed and curated art spaces: Terrence Sanders Gallery (New Orleans), Untitled Art Projects (Los Angeles), Sanders, Smith & Stokes (New Orleans), Artists 101 (Los Angeles), and the Makeshift Museum (Los Angeles) exhibiting hundreds of artists. Sanders-Smith has curated over 50 exhibitions and private art collections including: ’60 Americans, ‘We Got Next,’ (CalArts MFA Students), the ‘Saratoga and the Smith & Wisznia’ collections now in the permanent collection of the Alexandria Museum of Art.