Ming Smith

Ming Smith
Ming Smith: Photographs 1977 - 2010

Paris Rainbow, 1977/2002
Hand-painted photograph with oils
40 x 60 inches, 1/1

	Born Detroit, MI Lives and works in New York
Education
	B.S., Howard University, Washington, DC
Selected Solo Exhibitions
	2010	Ming: Photographs: 1977-2010, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2007	Celebration Life: Photography as Fine Art, Pounder-Koné Art Space, Atwater Village, CA
	2003	Ming Smith: Ming's Room, curated by Deborah Willis, Rush Arts Gallery, New York Ming Smith: In the Spirit: Invisible Woman, African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
	2002	In the Spirit of Jazz, Ming Smith: 30 Year Retrospective, Concourse Gallery, Upper Arlington, OH
	2001	Ming Smith: In the Spirit of Jazz, Tribes Gallery, New York Ming’s Room, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
	2000	Ming, Watt’s Tower Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
	1993	Ming Smith: in a Minor Key, Crawford and Sloan Gallery, New York
	1982	Ming Smith, Eric Turner Salon, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
	2010	Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Sarah Meister, Curator; and Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Kamoinge Photographers Group Show: In the Moment, HP Gallery, Calumet Photo, New York
	2009	Sound: Print: Record: African American, curated by Julie McGee, Mechanical Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
	2008	New York City: In Focus, Bellevue Hospital Center Atrium, New York 16th Annual Exhibition: Creative Destinations 2008 Exhibition of African American Art, Art in the Atrium, Morristown, NJ
	2007	BLACK and White on Black, Photographic Gallery, New York Celebration Life: Photography as Fine Art, Pounder-Koné Art Space, Atwater Village, CA Contemporary Afro-American Photography, Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA, September 7-December 29
	2006	Kamoinge Inc: Black Music from Bebop to Hip Hop, co-curated by Danny Simmons and Mark Blackshear, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY Harlem Photographers Present Images Dating Back to the Civil Rights Movement, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, October 26,
	2005	Contemporary Afro-American Photography, Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, September 8-December 10
	2004	A Century of African American Art: The Paul R. Jones Collection, University Museum, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
	2003	Generations: An Exhibit of African American Art, curated by Russell A. Murray, Art in the Atrium, Morristown, NJ
	2002	Original Acts: Photographs of African-American Performers from the Paul R. Jones Collection, curated by Amalia Amaki, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, DE Life of the City: An Exhibition in Answer to 2001, Museum of Modern Art, New York
	2000	Reflections In Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, organized by the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American Identity and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; traveling exhibition, catalogue MOMA2000, organized by Peter Glassi, Museum of Modern Art, New York
	1999	Black New York Photographers of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
	1995	Cultural Images: Sweet Potato Pie, curated by Russell A. Murray, Atrium Gallery, Morristown, NJ
	1989	Ming Smith, Anthony Barboza, Adger W. Cowans, Robert Hale and Deborah Willis, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York
	1984	14 Photographers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; catalogue
	1983	Contemporary Afro-American Photography, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
	1980	Self-Portrait, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, traveled to the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, MA, catalogue
	1976	Exposure: Work by Ten Photographers, Creative Artists Public Service Program, Columbia University, New York
Public and Corporate Collections
		Museum of Modern Art, New York Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and History, New York Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC AT&T, New Jersey
Reviews
	2003	Jones, Marian, book review, “A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to Present: Reflections in Black, The Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers, April/May/June,”
	2001	Cotter, Holland Cotter, ART IN REVIEW, “Ming Smith: In the Spirit of Jazz,” The New York Times, Friday, February 23
	2000	Pagel, David, Art Review, “Ming Smith’s Romantic Photos Capture the Mood That Is Jazz,” Los Angeles Times, September 19 Saltz, Jerry, “My Sixth Sense,” Village Voice, April 4, p.69
	1993	Coleman, A.D., “Ming Smith: in a Minor Key.” The Photo Review, spring, 16:2 pp. 9, 17. [1 b&w by Ming Smith] Coleman, A.D., “From A.D. Coleman New York,” Photo Metro, The New York Observer, 1;02, March 22
Media
	2011	Harris, Thomas Allen, Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a feature length, two-hour documentary and multimedia outreach project that explores how African American communities have used the medium of photography to construct political, aesthetic and cultural representations of themselves and their world. Co-produced by Dr. Deborah Willis, National PBS broadcast