Smith received his M.F.A. and Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Cincinnati, DAAP. His B.A. is from Hanover College, IN. He has also studied fine arts at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Smith frequently conducts visiting artist seminars, has received numerous grant awards and scholarships, and completed a residency and exhibition in Budapest, Hungary and Paducah, Kentucky. He has been featured in many prominent solo exhibitions, private and public collections and has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. He has also been selected twice for “New American Paintings Juried Exhibition-in-Print.” Smith was the 2014 Working Artist in Residence at Tiger Lily Press in Cincinnati, OH. Currently he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Hanover College, IN.