Shawn Smith was born in Dallas,
TX where he attended Brookhaven College before graduating from Washington
University in St. Louis with a BFA in Printmaking in 1995. Smith received
his MFA in Sculpture from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco
in 2005. He has received artist-in-residencies from the Kala Art Institute
in Berkeley, CA and the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France.
In 1996, Smith was a recipient of the Clare Hart DeGolyer grant from the
Dallas Museum of Art. Smith’s work has been exhibited throughout
the United States and he has recently been commissioned to create a monumental
public sculpture in San Francisco, CA. Shawn Smith currently resides in
Austin, Texas.
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