CV
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
A Flower That Continues to Unfold, Available Space Art Projects, Las Vegas, NV
2020
In The Interest Of Action, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2018
Moral Monsters, City Hall Grand Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2017
For Always, Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
In Relation, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2023
The Emotional Show, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2022
Spirit of the Land, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2021
I Am Here, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
A Beauteous Tree: Margaret Fuller's Femality, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020
Brush The Heat, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
Margret, Are You Grieving, Nevada Humanities Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
“My Two Cents”, Core Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
2019
“Block 17”, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
UNTOLD STORIES, Nevada State College, Las Vegas, NV
Gallery Stars, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
Year of the Pig, Historic Fifth Street School, Las Vegas, NV
2018
Untitled, Test Site Projects, Las Vegas, NV
SEEING><SAYING, Nevada Humanities Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Plural, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
Year of the Dog, Historic Fifth Street School, Las Vegas, NV
2016
Skull, The Studio, Las Vegas, NV
Dishing It Out, Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
North East, Left of Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2015
ZAP! 7 The Twenty Artist Who Took Over Maryland Parkway, Nevada Humanities Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Tiny Divas, Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah, GA
2014
Skull Show, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
African-American Talent Showcase, Tasty Space, Las Vegas, NV
2013
Skull Show, College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Lust to Dust, Photo Bang Bang, Las Vegas, NV
2012
Orange Assembly, Centerpiece, Las Vegas, NV
Lust to Dust, Photo Bang Bang, Las Vegas, NV
Artrageous, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Farewell, Fifth Wall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2011
UNLV BFA 2012, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
BFA Art Auction, Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2010
The Goonies Never Say Die, Blackbird Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
BFA Art Auction, Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Instantiation, The Fallout, Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas Perspective: Reflections of the African American Artist, City Hall Bridge Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
CAC’s 21st Annual Juried Art Show, CAC, Las Vegas, NV
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2023
Juhl, Artist in Residence, Las Vegas, NV
2022
International Mentorship Program 2022, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico
2021
The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
International Mentorship Program 2021, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico
2020
Juhl, Artist in Residence, Las Vegas, NV
International Mentorship Program 2020, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico
2019
Self-Directed Art Production Residency 2019, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico
2018
Community Engagement Artist in Residence, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2008-2011
DeVos Fine Art Scholarship
Special Projects
2023
Curator, Our Mothers Tounge, City Hall, Las Vegas, NV
YELLOW: VER 2022, Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
2021
Mural, Bellevue Botanical Garden, Bellevue, WA
2021-2023
Residency Director, Rogers Art Loft Las Vegas, NV
2017
Community Art Specialist, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
2017
Commercial Prop Design, Magic Hour Productions, Las Vegas, NV
Illustration, Slick It Up, New York, NY
2016
Utility Box Mural, County Commission, Las Vegas, NV
Illustration, Slick It Up, New York, NY
2015
Utility Box Mural, Zap7, Clark County NV,
Album Cover Illustration, Stolas, Las Vegas, NV
2012
Contributing Artist, Lust to Dust, Graphic Novel
Workshops & Panels
2021
Workshop, Emotion & Self, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Workshop, “Drawing & Memory”, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
Workshop, Teen Talk, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2020
Workshop, Virtual Summer Art Camp, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2019
Workshop, “Creative Aging”, The Neon Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Workshop, “Drawing & Memory”, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2018
Workshop, “Become A Superhero", DISCOVERY Children's Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Workshop, “Community Art Day”, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2017
Workshop, “Drawing & Memory”, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
Workshop, “REconstructing Memory”, Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
Panelist, “#BlackMenDream”, CSN (North Las Vegas Campus), Las Vegas, NV
2016
Panelist, “#BlackMenDream", CSN (Charleston Campus) Las Vegas, NV
2014
Panelist,“Queerly Provocative” Cockroach Theater, Las Vegas, NV
Education
University of Nevada Las Vegas, BFA, 2011, Drawing/Painting
Selected Collections
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
David Mason Chlopecki, West Hollywood, CA
Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico
RuPaul Charles, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography
2022
Joy Boggs, Exhibition Asks: Will We Choose Chaos or Community? , UNLV Arts & Culture
2021
Brent Holmes, Lance Smith’s imagery is a toolkit for decolonization, Double Scoop, November 2020
Dawn-Michelle Baude, Nevada Humanities’ “Margaret Are You Grieving”, Las Vegas Weekly, March 2020
2019
Dawn-Michelle Baude, “The Stunning “Block 17” Addresses…” , Las Vegas Weekly, October 2019
Leslie Ventura, “Artist Lance Smith Illustrates an Epidemic” , Las Vegas Weekly, July 2019
Justin Favela, Community Advocate and Mystical Blerd, THE ART PEOPLE PODCAST
2018
Kristen Peterson, “Moral Monster”, KNPR’s See/Hear/Do, February 2018
Kristy Totten, “Black Artist Explore Art...”, KNPR’s State of Nevada, February 2018
2017
Kristen Peterson, “Memory and Adornment”, KNPR’s See/Hear/Do, March 2017
Kristy Totten, “Making Miniature Moms”, KNPR’s State of Nevada, March 2017
2016
Jan Hogan, Artist Tackle Mortality” Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 2016
Geoff Carter, "Lance Smith Is Redoing...", Las Vegas Weekly, August 2016
Ed Fuentes, "Revisiting Zap 7: Lance Smith", Paint the Desert, June 2016
Kristen Peterson, "Fun with Politics", Las Vegas Weekly, January 2016
2015
Kristen Peterson, “Depicting Death” Las Vegas Weekly, December 2014
2009
The Vagus Nerve, Art & Literature Magazine, Fall/Spring 2007-2010
Citylife, “Line Dancing”, June 2009
Desert Companion, “25 Reasons for Art Optimism” , Fall 2009