Lara Smithson

Education​

BA at The Slade School of Fine Art 2011 - 2015

Cooper Union School of Fine Art, New York, 2013 (Exchange)

Awards | Scholarships | Residencies​

Benoît Doche de Laquintane Collection Prize 2024 

Solo presentation by DES BAINS at ART O RAMA 2024

Live Work Residency ACME Fire Station 2023-2026

https://acme.org.uk/artist-support/mid-career/work-live/lara-smithson/

A.N Artist Bursary, 2022/23: 

https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/artists-bursaries-2022-23-recipients-announced/

Artist in Residence, St Johns College, Oxford University, 2023

https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/college-life/art/artists-in-residence/

Bridget Riley Fellowship, British School of Rome, Rome, 2021/22

https://bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-artists-lara-smithson/

Erasmus Training and travel to The Orta Botanica, Padova, Italy, 2022/23

Claire Winston Award 2015

Dolbey Travel Scholarship 2015

The Grocers' Company Queens Golden Jubilee Scholarship 2011 - 2015

Claire Winston Award 2015

Official Selection WomenCineMakers Biennial Edition 2018

Exhibitions Solo 

CAUSE UNKNOWN at Des Bains

London 3 April - 8 May 2025

A RIBBON UNFURLING The Heong Gallery

Downing College Cambridge February 2025

Solo presentation by DES BAINS at ART O RAMA

Marseille, August 2024

UNNAMED SAINTS, Coleman Projects

London May/June 2023

UNNAMED SAINT Una Vetrina

Rome Italy 2022

SHE SPOKE RAIN The Why Not Gallery

Tbilisi Georgia 2018

Group

Sideshow, Lethaby Gallery, London, January-February 2023

Hall of Mirrors, Curated by Georgia Stephenson at PLOP, London. October 2023

https://stephensongeorgia.com/HALL-OF-MIRRORS

Seismic Mother, Hypha Studios 50 Celebration Ave, London 1st - 27th Sept 

https://hyphastudios.com/seismic-mother-curated-by-holly-birtles-charly-blackburn/

Brewers Towner International, Eastbourne, October 2022

https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/brewers-towner-international

Red in Tooth and Claw, curated by Francesca Dobbe, Filet Space, London, February 2023

Bag, pedestal, rabbit, potato at Staffordshire St, London, September 2022

March Mostra, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2022

December Mostra, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2021

Plicnik Space Initiative, Online https://plicnik.space

Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London 2020/2021

https://bowarts.org/nunnery-gallery/visions-in-the-nunnery

Rising Sun Collective, Screening, Online, 2020 

Re-Enchanted Matter, A.P.T, London September 2020 

https://www.hotdesque.xyz/reenchantedmatter

https://www.aptstudios.org/news/96qd8q9b3kofz1vuup311da7ntd81j

Exquisite CORPUS, Online 2020

OUTPOST Open Film 2019, selected by Stuart Whipps, Norwich Cinema City 2019

Fivehundredthousand Film Screening, Deptford Cinema, London 2019

PRINTED, Central Saint Martins, London 2019

Undercurrents, The Artesian Well, London 2018

ArtWorks Open 2018, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London 2018

Visions in the Nunnery | Bow Arts, London 2018

The Grand Tour Inauguration , fivehundredthousandgallery @ Artlicks Weekend , London 2018 

Four Limbs, London 2018

Perform & Pixel, fivehundredthousandgallery, London 2018

One need not be a chamber, Exposed Arts Projects, London 2018

http://www.exposedartsprojects.com/news

PLAYBACK touring UK, 2017-2018

https://stopplayrecord.ica.art

GROUPshow, New York 2017

WE WERE THERE, London 2015

Slade BA Degree Show, London 2015

Doleful Shades, London 2015

PAST PRESENT FUTURE KULT, London 2015

Second Person Looking Out, UCL Museum, London 2014 

Hit and Run, New York 2013

Art of the Book, New York 2013

The Kilburn Grand Tour, with Camden Arts Centre and Kingsgate Workshops Trust 2012

Interviews​

The British School at Rome Blog 2022

https://bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-artists-lara-smithson/

The British School at Rome Blog 2021

https://britishschoolatrome.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/meet-the-artists-lara-smithson/

WomenCinemakers 2018

https://issuu.com/cinemakers/docs/special.edition/4 

​

Writing

Breadcrumb, 2020

https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/breadcrumb/#publication_16564

Catalogue, Re-enchanted Matter, Hot Desque, 2020

https://www.hotdesque.xyz/reenchantedmatter
WomenCinemakers 2018

https://issuu.com/cinemakers/docs/special.edition/4

Vermeer's women don't have legs', Tomorrow Works, 2015

​

Talks

Reaching out, Symposium at Downing College Cambridge and The Heong Gallery 2025

Artist Talk, St John’s College Oxford, 2023

In conversation, St John’s College Oxford, 2023

Artist Talk, Seismic Mother, Hypha Studios, London, 2023

Artist Talk at The British School at Rome, 2022

Artist Talk, What we do, at Central Saint Martins, 2018