DWIGHT
SMITH
Short Edited Resume ( full vita available on request)
Education
MFA, Studio Art 2012 Lesley University College of Art and Design (LUCAD), Cambridge, MA
MA, 1992 Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
BFA, Painting 1976 Wayne State University - Major: Painting - Minor: Art History,
Academic Employment
2008 – Present Associate Professor of Visual Arts
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 REVELATIONS: Fifty Years of Painting, Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC.
2018 Legacy of the Creative Spirits, Delta Art Center, Winston-Salem, NC
2017 OBSERVATIONS: Mixed Media Works from Dwight Smith, Hibbing Community College, Hibbing, MN
2017 OPEN LETTERS: Works on Paper by Dwight Smith, Ellington-White Contemporary Art Gallery,
Fayetteville, NC
OBSERVATIONS: Mixed Media Works from Dwight Smith, Hibbing Community College, Hibbing, MN
2016 Dwight Smith: An Artist’s Approach to Discovery, Gallery 208, Fayetteville, NC
2014 OBSERVATIONS: Mixed Media Works from Dwight Smith, Ellington-White Contemporary Art
Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
2013 New works by Dwight Smith, National Conference of Artists Michigan Chapter Gallery, Detroit, MI
2012 New works by Dwight Smith, MFA Paintings, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University,
Fayetteville, NC
2009 Dwight Smith, Southeastern Community College, Whiteville, NC
2008 Dwight Smith, Paintings, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC
The Artwork of Dwight Smith, Paintings and Mixed Media Images, Fayetteville Museum of Art Gallery, Gallery 208, Fayetteville, NC
2007 Personal Journeys, Paintings and Mixed Media Images, Art and Soul Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
2004 Personal Journeys, Jo's Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Conversations and Reflections: Paintings, Collages, and Mixed Media Images
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan
2002 Recent works, the Northwest Community Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2000 Peintures, Le Manufacture, Aurillac, France
Reflections: 1976 – 2000, the Jon Onye Lockard Gallery of Art
Center for Afro-American and African Studies, U of M, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1999 Peintures, L’Escalier, Aurillac, France
1997 Looking Inward, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, U of M, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1995 Looking Inward, The Metropolitan Center for the Creative Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Fusion: An Abstract Show, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
2025 Time To Break Silence: Martin Luther King Juried Commemorative Exhibition, Ashe Cultural Center, New Orleans, LA
2024 Expressive Mark Making, FSU Students and FSU/FTCC Faculty Gallery 208, Fayetteville, NC
2024 2024 Invitational Abstract Exhibition: Freed from Interpretation, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
2024 LIVING THE LEGACY: NAAHBCU Celebrating Twenty-five Years, Chastain Arts Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA, and Bowie State University Gallery of Fine Art, Bowie, MD.
2023 We Stand Together: Showcasing Artworks of Artists from America’s HBCUs, Harmony Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023 Soul & Spirit of Black Joy, Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, NC
2023 Common Roots: Many Branches, Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
2022 Common Roots: Many Branches, Arts Council Wilmington, NC, Glynn Visual Arts Center, St. Simon Island, GA, Delta Center of Fine Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
2022 Artists Who Teach: Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville State University, and Ellington-White Contemporary Art Gallery, Fayetteville, NC,
2022 Conserving Legacies: Past, Present, Future: Fayetteville State University Fine Arts Collection, Arts Council Fayetteville Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC,
2021 Roots of Change: Looking Back/ Reaching Forward, Ellington-White Contemporary Art Gallery and Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC.
2020 Negritude: Exhibition of African American Art, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Durbar Hall Art Centre, Ernakulam, Banaras, Varanasi Hindu University Museum, Santiniketan, India.
2020 New Media Abstraction and Identity Politics: In traditional and Contemporary Black Visual Art, National Black Art Exhibition, Fayetteville State University, and Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville, NC.
2020 My Story, Your Story, Our Stories, Beach Institute African American Cultural Center, Savannah, GA.
2019 Give Us the Ballot and African Americans the Right to Vote, The National Center of Civil Rights at Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL.
2019 NCA National Exhibition, Xavier University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 NAAHBCU Juried Exhibition, Warren/Britt Galleries, Tullibody Fine Art Center, Alabama State University , Montgomery, AL.
2018 Changing Perspectives in Contemporary American Art, NAAHBCU Group Exhibition, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC
2017 Silver Maples: Painting, Collage, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Photography, Gallery 100, Chelsea, MI
White Masks by David C. Driskell and OBSERVATIONS: Mixed Media Works from Dwight Smith, National Conference of Artists, Michigan Chapter Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 The Drawing Exhibition, Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville, NC
Transformation 2: Artful Recycling, Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC
Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC
NAAHBCU National Exhibition: Into the New Millennium: New Media Abstraction and Identity Politics, Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC.
2015 Earthy Abstractions, Ellington-White Contemporary Art Gallery and
Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC
A Transformation: Artful Recycling, Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC
LUCAD MFA Alumni Biennial, Warehouse XI, Somerville, MA.
NAAHBCU National Exhibition: Afro Futurism, Tubman African-American Museum, Macon, GA.
Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, N.C.
Collectors Exhibition – Perspectives: The Artist, The Work and The Collector,
Ellington-White Contemporary Art Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
2014 FORECAST: OVERFLOW, Brown & Juanita Ford Art Gallery,
Wayne County Community College, Detroit, MI
Mediating Relevance: The Politics of Gender, Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County,
Fayetteville, NC
Fayetteville Contemporary – 1st Annual Juried Competition of Contemporary Art, Fayetteville, NC
2013 Earthy Abstraction, Works by Jack Kehoe, Kipley Meyer, Brian Rust, and Dwight Smith
Madison Artists Guild, Madison, GA
2012 Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, N.C.
2011 ACUMULATION: a Contemporary Collage Invitational, Arts Council of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina
2010 Visual Pleasures, Fayetteville Art Guild Gallery ONE13, Fayetteville, N.C. juried
FSU Faculty Exhibition, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, N.C.
UNC Faculty Exhibition, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, N.C.
2009 Creating/Making, Fayetteville Art Guild Gallery ONE13, Fayetteville, N.C., juried
Distinguished Visions, Timeless Traditions, The Arts Center of Fayetteville/Cumberland County,
2008 A Time for Angels, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
Creation, The Arts Center of Cumberland County, Fayetteville, N.C., juried
Imagine, Art Guild of Fayetteville, Green Light Gallery, Fayetteville, N.C., juried
National Black Fine Art Show, The Puck Building, SOHO, New York, NY
Contemporary Works on Paper, Brandywine Center for the Visual Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Voices: An Artist's Book and Portfolio II: An Artist's Book, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville,
National Black Fine Art Show, The Puck Building, SOHO, New York, NY
Works On Paper, The Jackson Gallery, Bryant Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
City Images: Environmental Concerns, Art & Soul Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
2002 Dwight Smith /Michael Raggins, The jRainey Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2001 Gateway to Africa: NCA National Exhibition, Skylight Gallery, New York, NY
2000 We’ve come this far - The Ellington-White Project, Detroit, MI
Selected Recent Presentations:
"Voices In Black Modernity and Beyond 2025", Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, 2025
"Artists Who Teach", Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery/Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, 2024
"Living The Legacy: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years," NAAHBCU Exhibition juror/curator, Atlanta, GA, 2024
"Soul & Spirit of Black Joy," Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, NC, 2023
"Common Roots: Many Branches," Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, 2023
"Common Roots: Many Branches," Arts Council Wilmington, NC, Glynn Visual Arts Center, St. Simon Island, GA, Delta Center of Fine Arts, Winston-Salem, NC, 2022
"Artists Who Teach: 2022, " Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville State University, and Ellington-White Contemporary Art Gallery, Fayetteville NC, 2022
"Conserving Legacies: Past, Present, Future: Fayetteville State University Fine Arts Collection, Arts Council Fayetteville Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC, 2022
“Collecting Black Art,” Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC, 2016
“Black Art: Abstraction, Social Change and Cultural Identity in My Postwar America,” Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, 2012
“Black Art: Abstraction, Social Change and Cultural Identity in My Postwar America,” Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, 2012
“Examining Interrelationships of Black Art on Social Change and Cultural Identity,” Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, 2012
“The Evolution of the Black Image in Illustration and Fine Art,” The Friends of African and African American Art, The Arts Council Fayetteville/Cumberland County, NC, 2011
Public Collections:
National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University
Fayetteville State University Collection of African and African American Art
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,
Cape Fear Hospital, Fayetteville, North Carolina,
The Charles Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan,
The National Conference of Artists Michigan Chapter, Detroit, Michigan,
The Mott Foundation Collection of African American Art, Flint, Michigan,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan Corporate Art Collection,
Osaka City Hall, Osaka, Japan,
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY,
Scripps College Museum, K Pamona, CA,
Northwestern University Black Studies Library Collection, Evanston, IL,