Keith A. Smith is an American artist and author. He has taught at the Visual Studies Workshop, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Illinois. He is a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment of the Arts grant and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expressionist painter and the widow of fellow painter Jackson...

 grant. Smith creates books as works of art, as well as instructional texts on how to make books. Smith has made over 280 books.

Education

• 1967: BAE, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (September 1963–May 1967)
• 1968: MS Photography, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (September 1967–June 1968)

Exhibitions

• 2011: Bruce Silverstein Gallery
  Bruce Silverstein Gallery
  Bruce Silverstein Gallery was established in 2001. Bruce Silverstein Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea Art District in New York City. The Gallery's main exhibition space is located at 535 West 24th Street with another location at 529 West 20th Street...
  
  , New York, NY
• 2008: Rare Books Room, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
• 2004: Center for Book Arts
  Center for Book Arts
  The Center for Book Arts in New York City is the first organization of its kind in the United States dedicated to contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object while preserving traditional practices of the art of the book....
  
  , New York, NY
• 2000: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia,
• 1999: Unique Beyond Imagining, miniature book show, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• 1988: Retrospetcive, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
• 1979: Stuart Wilbur Gallery, Chicago IL.
• 1978: Columbia College
  Columbia College Chicago
  Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest art colleges in the United States with nearly 12,000 students pursuing degrees within 120 undergraduate and graduate programs...
  
  , Chicago IL.
• 1977: Vision Gallery , Boston, MA.
• 1976: Lichtropfen, Agen, West Germany. Light Gallery, New York, NY. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
• 1975: Museum of Modern Art
  Museum of Modern Art
  The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
  
  , New York, NY.
• 1974: Barat College. Light Gallery, New York, NY. University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL.
• 1973: Gallerie Civica D’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy.
• 1971: Light Gallery, New York, NY.
• 1970: International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House
  George Eastman House
  The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...
  
  , Rochester, NY. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
• 1968: Art Institute of Chicago
  Art Institute of Chicago
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
  
  , Chicago, IL.

Collections

• Art Institute of Chicago
  Art Institute of Chicago
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
  
  
• Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
• Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
  
   Library, Pittsburgh, PA
• Center for Creative Photography
  Center for Creative Photography
  The Center for Creative Photography , established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers including those of Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and Garry...
  
  , University of Arizona
• Cranbrook Academy of Art Library, Bloomfield Hills, MI
• Fogg Museum, Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  
• Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna, Turin
• International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House
  George Eastman House
  The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...
  
  , Rochester, NY
• Istvan Kiraly Muzeum, Szekasfechevar, Budapest, Hungary
• Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
  Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
  The is a gallery of photography in the Kiyosato regionof the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi .The gallery was founded in 1995; Eikoh Hosoe has been its director since its inception....
  
  , Tokyo, via the Robert Heinecken collection, Tokyo, Japan
• Library of Congress
  Library of Congress
  The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
  
  , The Rosenwald Collection, Washington, DC
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...
  
   Library, Boston, MA
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Museum of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• Museum of Modern Art
  Museum of Modern Art
  The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
  
  , New York, NY
• National Gallery of Canada
  National Gallery of Canada
  The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...
  
  
• Photographic Archives, Louisville KY
• Rhode Island School of Design
  Rhode Island School of Design
  Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...
  
   Library, Providence, RI
• Richard F. Brush Art Gallery & Permanent Collection, St. Lawrence University
  St. Lawrence University
  St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....
  
  
• Ryerson Institute, Toronto, Canada
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
  
  
• Sterling Memorial Library
  Sterling Memorial Library
  Sterling Memorial Library is the largest library at Yale University, containing over 4 million volumes. It is an example of Gothic revival architecture, designed by James Gamble Rogers, adorned with thousands of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit.The Library has 15 levels, each with...
  
  , Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  , New Haven, CT
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  The is an art museum focused on photography. The museum was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is located in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo...
  
  
• Victoria and Albert Museum
  Victoria and Albert Museum
  The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
  
  , London
• Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY
• Wellesley Museum, Wellesley MA
• Wooster Museum, Wooster MA

Books

• 2002: Book 202, Smith's Sewing Single Sheets, Non-Adhesive Binding, Volume IV, published by keith smith BOOKS
• 2001: Book 211, Quick Leather Bindings, Non-Adhesive Binding, Volume V, published by keith smith BOOKS
• 2000: Book 200, 200 Books, An Annotated Bibliography, published by keith smith BOOKS, First Edition, May 2000.
• 1998: Book 181, Bookbinding for Book Artists, published by keith smith BOOKS, First Edition, July. The book is co-authored by Keith Smith and Fred A. Jordan
• 1995: Book 170, Exposed Spine Sewings, Non-Adhesive Binding, Volume III, published by keith smith BOOKS
• 1995: Book 169, 1– 2– & 3–Section Sewings, Non-Adhesive Binding, Volume II, published by keith smith BOOKS
• 1991: Book 128, Books without Paste or Glue, Non-Adhesive Binding ,Volume I, Keith Smith, The Sigma Foundation, Inc. Second Edition, 1992; The Revised & Expanded Edition, 1999
• 1989: Book 120 Text in the Book Format, Keith Smith, The Sigma Foundation, Inc. Second edition 1995; The Expanded Third Edition, 2004
• 1984: Book 95, Structure of the Visual Book, Keith Smith, self-published. The Revised and Expanded Edition, 1992; The Korean translation, published by The Open Books Co., 35-23 Tongyee-dong, Jongno-ku, Seoul, Korea