Curriculum Viate

Kelsey Smith

b.1995, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Main Page Catalogue Cards Painting

Education

2018

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) University of Manitoba

Solo Exhibitions

2017
You Guys Look Like Shit, Gallery of Student Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2025
Seamless Transitions, MAWA, Winnipeg, Canada

2019
Feast, SOA Student Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Carte Blanche, aceartinc., Winnipeg, Canada

2018
Fresh Paint / New Construction, Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
aceartinc.’s Annual Student Exhibition, aceartinc., Winnipeg, Canada
still-likeness: Reworking the Photographic Medium, Platform Centre for Photographic & Digital Arts, Winnipeg, Canada

2017
Spectator / Boundary Net, SOFA SA, 100 Higgins, Winnipeg, Canada
Performance Night, aceartinc., Winnipeg, Canada

2016
Proteins, Gallery of Student Art, Winnipeg, Canada

2015
SOFA’s Show + Create Student Show, Edge Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
aceartinc.’s Annual Student Exhibition, aceartinc., Winnipeg, Canada

Curatorial Projects

2017
A Sporting Good Time: Sports and Leisure from 1890 to 1930, Dalnavert Museum, Winnipeg, Canada

Professional activities

2023 - 2024
MAWA Foundation Mentorship Program Mentee (Anna Binta Diallo, Mentor)

2022
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Merchandise Collaboration for Leonard Suryajaya's False Idol x North Kin

2021
Brandon School Division, Artist Talk

2018
Royal Society of Canada, Two-Hour live painting at the Winnipeg Art Gallery

2017
Dalnavert Museum, Painting Texture, Camera Obscura Workshop Facilitator
aceartinc., Preparator

2016
aceartinc., Documentation and assistance with Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s Performance Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Archive Assistant

2015 - 2020
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Administrative and Gala Volunteer

2015 - 2018
aceartinc., Archiving and Gallery Volunteer

Press and Publications

2025 CKUW 95.5FM, Guest on Eat your Arts and Vegetables
2025 The Uniter, The Ties that Bond
2015 Winnipeg Free Press, Student Teachers

Board Experience

2021 - 2023 Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library, Treasurer
2021 - 2023 Association of Manitoba Museums, President
2019 - 2021 Association of Manitoba Museums, Vice-President
2018 - 2019 Flux Gallery, Board Member
2016 - 2018 School of Art Student Association, Painting Representative, Co-President