EDUCATION
American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy | 2009
Summer Fellowship

Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT | 2009
M.F.A., Painting and Printmaking

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD | 2007
B.F.A., Painting Major, Art History Minor



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2014
As I Remembered, solo exhibition at Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL, February 21 - March 21
Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, January 25 - March 23
Opposing Dysfunction: solo exhibition at the Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, January 17 - March 16

2013
Big Bangs/Small Bucks Redux | Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Beta Pictoris Gallery at Texas Contemporary Art Fair | Houston, TX
I Dream Too Much | Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (Solo)
Wisconsin 30 | Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Pulp 3 ...works on paper | Beta Pictoris Gallery / Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL
Beta Pictoris Gallery at ARTPADSF | Art fair at the Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco, CA

2012
25 for 25 | Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Leslie Smith III: Representation, Abstraction, Oscillation | Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (Solo)
Voices of Home | Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Voices of Home | Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY

2011
Intersecting Cultures/Virtual Worlds | Underground Gallery at the Betsy, Miama, FL
Two Men 2011: Tim Roseborough & Leslie Smith, III  | Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY

2010
Balls | Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, MN
In/Ex | Gallery M, New York, NY
Joel Dean, Fabienne Lasserre, Leslie Smith III | Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Emerge CT:  2009 MFA Graduates from UConn, Western Connecticut State and Yale, Stamford, CT
Yale University School of Art M.F.A. Thesis Show, New Haven, CT

2008
Verge | Galapagos Art Space, New York, NY

2007
Visions of Conflict: Rendering Dissent | Gormley gallery College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD  
MAEF Juried Exhibition | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art B.F.A. Thesis Show, Baltimore, MD

2006
Taylor Companies Retrospective Show | Taylor Companies, Washington DC



HONORS & AWARDS
American Academy in Rome, Al Held Affiliate Fellow | Rome Italy | 2009
Best in show, Maryland Artist Equity Foundation Juried Exhibition | Baltimore Museum of Art | 2007
Freda Eichelberger Scholarship | 2006 -2007
Thailheimer Scholarship | 2003 – 2007
ARTS Scholarship, MICA | 2003 – 2007
National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Finalist and Scholarship recipient | 2003



COLLECTIONS
The Collection of Kera and Bennie F. Johnson
Taylor Companies | Washington DC
Numerous private collections



SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Leah kolb " Paintings in Conflict Leslie Smith's Contemporary Abstractions" I Dream Too Much exhibition catalogue, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art June 7, 2013
 
Katherine Murrell "Representation, Abstraction, Oscillation" Exhibition catalogue
Dean Jensen Gallery July 27, 2012

Erica Agyeman "The Medium of The Message" International Review of African American Art, Issue 23.4,
(December 2011): 35-38

Glen McNatt "Saying Their Piece About Fighters, War"  Baltimore Sun, July 25, 2007
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2007-07-25/features/0707250164_1_dame-of-maryland-college-of-notre-notre-dame



LECTURES & VISITS  
Marie Walsh Sharp Art Foundation Summer Session III, Colorado Spring, CO | 2013
Lecture & Painting Seminar instructor 
 
Voices of Home Panel Discussion,  Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY | 2013
Panel Discussion moderated by former MoCODA curator Kalia Brooks

Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY | 2011  
Gallery Talk & Panel Discussion “Contemporary African American Art”
 
Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL | 2011 
Visiting Artist
Lecture and painting, printmaking workshop
 
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD | 2010 
Visiting Artist
Lecture and Undergraduate Thesis Studio Visits
 
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT | 2010
Visiting Critic
Painting Studio II, seniors and juniors undergraduate majors  
 
University Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI | 2010 
Visiting Artist
Lecture and Graduate Studio