Oliver Smith is a visual artist living in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from the Ringling School of Art and Georgia State University. Mediums include painting, printmaking, photography and video art. Smith often combines digital and analog processes, exploring what each has to offer. Minimalism is a big influence. Limited color, muted palette, spareness of form hold an appeal. Trying to do as much as possible with the least is an objective guiding his creative process. He can be reached at [email protected].
Exhibitions
2024
Esto Es Para Esto, Cineteca Nuevo León, Monterrey, México
Bizarrya Short Fim Festival, Porto, Portugal
ARTS Southeast, Supporter Group Show, Savannah, GA
2023
Fargo Film Festival, Fargo ND
Fisura FICVE, Mexico City
International Film Festival Akrobat, St. Petersburg, Russia
24h Cinematographica, Foggia, Italy
Pinus Sessions, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2022
XPRMNTL anti-festival, London, England
Bizarrya Short Fim Festival, (Award), Porto, Portugal
Esto Es Para Esto, Cineteca Nuevo León, Monterrey, México
One Pound Super Short FF, London College of Communication, England
Fisura, International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Mexico City
Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, Dresden, Germany
ALC videoart festival,Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, Spain
Mister Vorky FF, (Jury Award), Ruma, Serbia
Internatioal Film Festival Akrobat, St. Petersburg, Russia
Stuff MX Film Festival, Mexico City
2021
Das Filmfest, Corvallis, OR
Coop Microcinema, Nashville, TN
Muestra de Video Arte Faenza 2021, Bogota, Colombia/Havana, Cuba
Hallucinea Film Festival, Paris, France
Altered Images Film and Music Festival, London, England
Cisterna Film Festival, (Other Visions Award), Cisterna di Latina, Italy
Cine@Art Festival, Peloponnesus, Greece
ALC Videoart Festival, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
TAKT Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Kerala Short Film Festival, Kerala, India
17 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, San Francisco Solano, Argentina
2020
Gstaad International Festival for Short Art Films, Laois, Ireland
Sixties Film Festival, Los Angles, CA
Stuff MX Film Festival, Mexico City
New Wave Motion, Hong Kong, China
TAKT Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Coop Microcinema, Nashville, TN
The Other Side, White Page Gallery, Online
Pune Short Film Festival, Pune, India
The Itinerant Cinema of La Bete Rousse, France
Drunken Film Festival, Bradford, England
Onirica Film Festival, La Spezia, Italy
Muestra de Video Arte Faenza 2020, Bogota, Colombia/Havana, Cuba
Retro Avant Garde FF, NYC
2019
Berlin Illambra Experimental Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
EyeMyth Media Arts Festival, Mumbai, India
New Wave Film Festival, Hong Kong, China
Darkroom Film Festival, London, England
Unseen Film Festival, Boulder, CO
Portland Unknown Film Festival, Portland, OR
Cisterna Film Festival, Cisterna di Latina, Italy
Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Huntingdon, PA
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
Shorts@Fringe IFF, Portugal
Kinolikbez, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tianchana Fest, Metepec, México
Esto Es Para Esto, Cineteca Nuevo León, Monterrey, México
2018
14 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, San Francisco Solano, Argentina
RAGFF Venezia, Venice. Italy
Crema Helada, Tijuana, Mexico
Cinemaway, Zhovkva, Ukraine
Cinematic Panic, Memphis, TN
30 Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spain
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Lviv, Ukraine
Inaugural Film Arts Festival (Curator's Choice Award), Otterbein University, Westerville, OH
Drunken Film Festival, (Best Avant Garde Award), Bradford, England
Alternative to What?, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
2017
WonderRoot’s Independent Filmmakers Night, Atlanta
Visionaria ISFF, Siena, Italy
BlackBox Shortfilm Festival, Biberstein, Switzerland
ULTRAcinema FF, La Joya, Mexico
Electric Short Film & Music Festival, (Award), Salles-sous-Bois, France
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
Moonrise Film Festival, Wells, British Columbia
Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Huntingdon, PA
Boulevard Film Festival, NYC
Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal
Deep Cut Film Festival, (Audio Award), Ontario
Unseen Zinema 5, Madrid, Spain
Derapage 17, Montreal, Quebec
Visual Music Award Show, (Award), Gelnhausen, Germany
Palace International Film Festival, Otmuchow, Poland
Silver Screen Film Festival, Tampa
Cinema Perpetuum Mobile IFF, Minsk, Belarus
Moving Image Art ISFF, Ontario
WonderRoot’s Independent Filmmakers Night, Atlanta
Motion for Pictures, Cary, North Carolina
SURFACES 2.0, University of Central Florida, Orlando
2000 - 2016
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival, Pune, India
CÓDEC Festival de Vídeo Y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City
Crossing the Screen, Eastbourne, England
Experimental Superstars, (special mention experimental film category), Novi Sad, Serbia
International Fair of Bogota Film Independent FECI, Bogota, Columbia
WonderRoot’s 12th Independent Filmmakers Night, Plaza Theatre, 2013
WonderRoot’s 9th Independent Filmmakers Night, Plaza Theatre, 2012
Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium, 2012
Best of WonderRoot, video, High Museum of Art, 2011
Mason Murer, Group Show, 2010
Visions of the Apocalypse, Georgia State University, 2009
The Granite Room, Printer’s Workshop, Atlanta, 2009
Swan Coach House Art Gallery, “Scratching the Surface”, Print, 2009
Garage Projects, “Le Flash” One Minute / One Night, Video Installation, 2008
Fine Line Gallery, Art for Impact Auction, Print, 2008
Art House Gallery, Georgia 291: Georgia Printmakers, 2008
Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, “The Mirror Stage”, Video, Cyprus, 2008
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Absence of Need”, Photography, Atlanta, 2008
New York Studio Gallery, Video, NYC, 2007
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Dead Flowers”, Video, Atlanta, 2007
Théâtre Trimage of Nice, 20th Instants Video Festival, France, 2007
Blue Tower Gallery, “Exhibition of Works on Paper”, Atlanta, 2007
Nova Cinema, “Views from the American Underground”, Brussels 2007
Blue Tower Gallery, “Best of Dahlonega International Film Festival”, Atlanta, 2007
Eugene Noise Festival, Video, Eugene Oregon, 2007
Atlanta Composers Group, Turned On: Electronic Music. 2007
The Tank @ Collective Unconscious, “NY Experimental”, NYC, Video, 2006
Astoria Moving Picture Festival, NYC, 2006
Mason Murer, Group Show, 2006
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Painted Screens”, Video, 2005
Mason Murer, Group Show, Paintings, 2005
Nova Cinema, Brussels, 2004
Mason Murer, Fall Group Show, 2004
Atlanta Underground Film Festival (nominated best experimental short), 2004
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Altered Images”, (curator and participant, 16mm films), 2004
The Stinger, “Underground Short Films”, NYC, 2003
Fay Gold Gallery, “Video Visionaries”, 2003
Modern Primitive, Paintings, 2003
Artspot, “The Hair Show”, Video, 2003
Dahlonega International Film Festival, 2002
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Meet the Artist v.1.1”,,2002
Swan Coach House Gallery, “Prints by Georgia Artists” 2002
Eyedrum, “Dead Tech”, Installation 2002
Modern Primitive Art Gallery, Painting, 2001
Eyedrum, “The Panoptic Mind”, Video, 2001
Eyedrum, “Layers into Light”, (group show), 2000
Eyedrum, “Scenes from a Scene” (video),
International Film Festival Akrobat
St. Petersburg
2024
Esto Es Para Esto, Cineteca Nuevo León, Monterrey, México
Bizarrya Short Fim Festival, Porto, Portugal
ARTS Southeast, Supporter Group Show, Savannah, GA
2023
Fargo Film Festival, Fargo ND
Fisura FICVE, Mexico City
International Film Festival Akrobat, St. Petersburg, Russia
24h Cinematographica, Foggia, Italy
Pinus Sessions, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2022
XPRMNTL anti-festival, London, England
Bizarrya Short Fim Festival, (Award), Porto, Portugal
Esto Es Para Esto, Cineteca Nuevo León, Monterrey, México
One Pound Super Short FF, London College of Communication, England
Fisura, International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Mexico City
Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, Dresden, Germany
ALC videoart festival,Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, Spain
Mister Vorky FF, (Jury Award), Ruma, Serbia
Internatioal Film Festival Akrobat, St. Petersburg, Russia
Stuff MX Film Festival, Mexico City
2021
Das Filmfest, Corvallis, OR
Coop Microcinema, Nashville, TN
Muestra de Video Arte Faenza 2021, Bogota, Colombia/Havana, Cuba
Hallucinea Film Festival, Paris, France
Altered Images Film and Music Festival, London, England
Cisterna Film Festival, (Other Visions Award), Cisterna di Latina, Italy
Cine@Art Festival, Peloponnesus, Greece
ALC Videoart Festival, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
TAKT Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Kerala Short Film Festival, Kerala, India
17 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, San Francisco Solano, Argentina
2020
Gstaad International Festival for Short Art Films, Laois, Ireland
Sixties Film Festival, Los Angles, CA
Stuff MX Film Festival, Mexico City
New Wave Motion, Hong Kong, China
TAKT Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Coop Microcinema, Nashville, TN
The Other Side, White Page Gallery, Online
Pune Short Film Festival, Pune, India
The Itinerant Cinema of La Bete Rousse, France
Drunken Film Festival, Bradford, England
Onirica Film Festival, La Spezia, Italy
Muestra de Video Arte Faenza 2020, Bogota, Colombia/Havana, Cuba
Retro Avant Garde FF, NYC
2019
Berlin Illambra Experimental Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
EyeMyth Media Arts Festival, Mumbai, India
New Wave Film Festival, Hong Kong, China
Darkroom Film Festival, London, England
Unseen Film Festival, Boulder, CO
Portland Unknown Film Festival, Portland, OR
Cisterna Film Festival, Cisterna di Latina, Italy
Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Huntingdon, PA
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
Shorts@Fringe IFF, Portugal
Kinolikbez, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tianchana Fest, Metepec, México
Esto Es Para Esto, Cineteca Nuevo León, Monterrey, México
2018
14 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, San Francisco Solano, Argentina
RAGFF Venezia, Venice. Italy
Crema Helada, Tijuana, Mexico
Cinemaway, Zhovkva, Ukraine
Cinematic Panic, Memphis, TN
30 Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spain
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Lviv, Ukraine
Inaugural Film Arts Festival (Curator's Choice Award), Otterbein University, Westerville, OH
Drunken Film Festival, (Best Avant Garde Award), Bradford, England
Alternative to What?, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
2017
WonderRoot’s Independent Filmmakers Night, Atlanta
Visionaria ISFF, Siena, Italy
BlackBox Shortfilm Festival, Biberstein, Switzerland
ULTRAcinema FF, La Joya, Mexico
Electric Short Film & Music Festival, (Award), Salles-sous-Bois, France
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
Moonrise Film Festival, Wells, British Columbia
Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Huntingdon, PA
Boulevard Film Festival, NYC
Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal
Deep Cut Film Festival, (Audio Award), Ontario
Unseen Zinema 5, Madrid, Spain
Derapage 17, Montreal, Quebec
Visual Music Award Show, (Award), Gelnhausen, Germany
Palace International Film Festival, Otmuchow, Poland
Silver Screen Film Festival, Tampa
Cinema Perpetuum Mobile IFF, Minsk, Belarus
Moving Image Art ISFF, Ontario
WonderRoot’s Independent Filmmakers Night, Atlanta
Motion for Pictures, Cary, North Carolina
SURFACES 2.0, University of Central Florida, Orlando
2000 - 2016
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival, Pune, India
CÓDEC Festival de Vídeo Y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City
Crossing the Screen, Eastbourne, England
Experimental Superstars, (special mention experimental film category), Novi Sad, Serbia
International Fair of Bogota Film Independent FECI, Bogota, Columbia
WonderRoot’s 12th Independent Filmmakers Night, Plaza Theatre, 2013
WonderRoot’s 9th Independent Filmmakers Night, Plaza Theatre, 2012
Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium, 2012
Best of WonderRoot, video, High Museum of Art, 2011
Mason Murer, Group Show, 2010
Visions of the Apocalypse, Georgia State University, 2009
The Granite Room, Printer’s Workshop, Atlanta, 2009
Swan Coach House Art Gallery, “Scratching the Surface”, Print, 2009
Garage Projects, “Le Flash” One Minute / One Night, Video Installation, 2008
Fine Line Gallery, Art for Impact Auction, Print, 2008
Art House Gallery, Georgia 291: Georgia Printmakers, 2008
Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, “The Mirror Stage”, Video, Cyprus, 2008
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Absence of Need”, Photography, Atlanta, 2008
New York Studio Gallery, Video, NYC, 2007
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Dead Flowers”, Video, Atlanta, 2007
Théâtre Trimage of Nice, 20th Instants Video Festival, France, 2007
Blue Tower Gallery, “Exhibition of Works on Paper”, Atlanta, 2007
Nova Cinema, “Views from the American Underground”, Brussels 2007
Blue Tower Gallery, “Best of Dahlonega International Film Festival”, Atlanta, 2007
Eugene Noise Festival, Video, Eugene Oregon, 2007
Atlanta Composers Group, Turned On: Electronic Music. 2007
The Tank @ Collective Unconscious, “NY Experimental”, NYC, Video, 2006
Astoria Moving Picture Festival, NYC, 2006
Mason Murer, Group Show, 2006
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Painted Screens”, Video, 2005
Mason Murer, Group Show, Paintings, 2005
Nova Cinema, Brussels, 2004
Mason Murer, Fall Group Show, 2004
Atlanta Underground Film Festival (nominated best experimental short), 2004
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Altered Images”, (curator and participant, 16mm films), 2004
The Stinger, “Underground Short Films”, NYC, 2003
Fay Gold Gallery, “Video Visionaries”, 2003
Modern Primitive, Paintings, 2003
Artspot, “The Hair Show”, Video, 2003
Dahlonega International Film Festival, 2002
Eyedrum Art Gallery, “Meet the Artist v.1.1”,,2002
Swan Coach House Gallery, “Prints by Georgia Artists” 2002
Eyedrum, “Dead Tech”, Installation 2002
Modern Primitive Art Gallery, Painting, 2001
Eyedrum, “The Panoptic Mind”, Video, 2001
Eyedrum, “Layers into Light”, (group show), 2000
Eyedrum, “Scenes from a Scene” (video),
International Film Festival Akrobat
St. Petersburg