Personal
Born 1951, Heidelberg, Germany.
U.S. Army. Vietnam 1970-71. Germany 1972. Rank E-5. Honorable discharge.
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 1977.
MFA in Photography, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT, 1981.
Professor of Photography, Department of Art and Design, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 1981-present.

Exhibitions
2007
Easy Rider, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
New Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
New Acquisitions, Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC

2003
Country, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN.
Beautiful Landscapes and Strange Things, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC.
The Shape of Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN.

2002
Mike Smith Photographs, Juanita Kreps Gallery at The Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC.
New AcquisitionsNew Work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA.
Obsession, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco.

2001
About Face, Rena Branston Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Recent Acquisitions, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH.
Picturing Modernity, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The Alchemy of Light, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN.

2000
You're Not From Around Here, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Visualizing the Blues, Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN.
Mike Smith: Color Photographs, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago, IL.
What's New, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Southern Exposure, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach.
Mike Smith: Color Photographs, Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Mike Smith, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN.

1999
You're Not From Around Here, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY.
American Modernism from Stieglitz to Today, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago.
Humidity, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta GA.
Wm. Christenberry / Mike Smith, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Inside, Outside, Robert Mann Gallery, NY.
Introductions 1999, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta GA.
Some Southern Stories, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL.

1998
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY.
Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL.

1997
Mike Smith, Recent Work, Slocumb Gallery, Johnson City, TN.

1996
East Tennessee State University Faculty, Holland Smith Gallery, Huntsville, AL.
Tracking Transition, Wm. King Art Center, Abingdon VA.

1995
Fellowship Recipients, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville TN.
Windows on Tennessee, Memphis Art Museum, Memphis TN.

1994
Mike Smith, Midtown Y Gallery, New York, NY.
Windows on Tennessee, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN.

1993
Windows on Tennessee, Ewing Gallery of Art, Knoxville TN.
Tennessee Christmas, Wm. King Arts Center, Abington VA.

1992
Nothing Personal, Tusculum College, Greenville, TN.

1990
Living Artists-Photographers, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN.

1989
Arrowmont School for the Arts, Gatlinburg, TN.

1987
Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC.

Selected Publications
Critical Regionalism by Douglas Reichert Powell, UNC Press 2007
Ledger. Poetry by Susan Wheeler. University of Iowa Press. 2005
You're Not From Around Here: Photographs of East Tennessee by Mike Smith, Center for American Places/Columbia College Chicago, 2004.
The New York Times Magazine, January 27, 2002.
The New York Times Magazine, July 29, 2001.
The New York Times Magazine, July 22, 2001 (cover story).
The Oxford American, March 2001.
Sunday New York Times Magazine, Dec. 16, 2000.
Sunday New York Times Magazine, Nov.19, 2000.
A Thousand Hounds, by Raymond Merritt & Miles Barth (Taschen, 2000).
Visualizing the Blues; Images of the American South, by Wendy McDaris & John Grisham (The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 2000).
DoubleTake Magazine, July 2000 (volume 21).
Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2000 Art and Collecting "Betting on Photo Futures."
The New Yorker, Nov 15, 1999.
New York, Oct. 25, 1999.
Sunday New York Times Magazine, March 7, 1999.
Blind Spot, Issue 12, November 1998.
DoubleTake Magazine, March 1998 (volume 12).
Art Papers, March/April 1998 (volume 22, issue 2).
DoubleTake Magazine, December 1995 (volume 3).

Grants/Awards

2001
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Tennessee Governor's Distinguished Artist Award.
ETSU College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award.
Juror, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Photography Award.

2000
Finalist, Alfred Eisenstadt/LIFE Magazine New Talent Award.

1999
Henry M. Buhl Foundation Photography Grant.

1994
Tennessee Arts Commission Artist Fellowship.

Photographs in Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Berman Collection, Los Angeles, CA.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Columbus Museum of Art, OH.
Dow Jones Collection.
Sir Elton John Collection, Atlanta, GA.
The Hallmark Collection at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX.
LaSalle National Bank, Chicago.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Martin Margolies Collection, Miami, FL.
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Opryland Hotel. Nashville, TN.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA.
Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, KY.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN.
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN.
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
University of Michigan, School of Social Research.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
Whitney Museum, New York, NY.
Yale University, New Haven, CT.