Smuts-Kennedy’s practice is focused on a research based investigation into fields of energy as they engage with conceptual thinking both within an art based language and other intuition driven modes of enquiry.
2012 MFA First Class Honours, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2010 PG Dip, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2017 The Frequency of the Earth, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Systems and Collaborations, Te Uru, Auckland, New Zealand
2016 Point to Periphery, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Events within Boundaries, Rm Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2014 Field Work, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Shape Analysis, Rm Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2012 Principal Of Hope, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Unearthed; Encrouchment Of The Commons, Wollongong Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
2009 Another Day in Paradise, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
Pretty, as a Picture, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Pyramid Scheme, The John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
2008 Cliffhanger, GBK Gallery, Sydney
Competing continents of Bling, Kiosk, Physics Room, Christchurch
2006 Painting Rubbish, GBK Gallery, Sydney
Ether, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005 Ether, GBK Gallery, Sydney
2004 Ascension, GBK Gallery, Sydney
2003 Behold The Man, GBK Gallery (Inaugural Exhibition), Sydney
2016 Chain of Mountains, TCB, Melbourne
Weird Ceramics, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
Soft Architecture, Malcolm Smith Gallery,(Inaugural Exhibition), Auckland
2013 From light, forms, Breenspace, Sydney
Relief, Window, Auckland
2012 Link, Snake Pit, Auckland
2011 The New Arcadia, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW
Black, Cessnock Regional Gallery, NSW
2010 Shifting Sands, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
Curious Colony, Newcastle Region Gallery, NSW
2009 Wax On, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2007 Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland
gbk @ Silvershot, Melbourne
2006 Bitmap, International Photo Project, Alternative Space Loop, Korea
2005 December Group, GBK Gallery, Sydney
GBK Group Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2004 Refresh: 10 years of Photo Technica New Australian Photo Artist of the Year, ACP, Sydney
Portraiture The Art of Social Commentary, Te Tuhi, Auckland
Group Show, GBK Gallery, Sydney
2016 – 2018 For the Love of Bees, Collaboration with Aucklanders, Auckland City Council,
Activate Auckland Design Office
2014 – 2015 The Park, Collaboration with Taarati Taiaroa, Auckland City Council, Pop
2017 Systems & Collaborations Conversation, Auckland Art Gallery
2017 NZ Biodynamic Association Conference, Auckland
Kitchen Table Conversations, Auckland Art Gallery
2015 Critical Forum & Masterclass, Massey University
2009 Artist talk, Artspace Sydney
2015 Artspace, Auckland
Rm gallery, Auckland
2009 Artspace, Sydney
Lock Up, Newcastle, Australia
2015 Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato, finalist
2010 Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato, finalist
2009 RBS Emerging Artist Award, Sydney, finalist
2008 17th Annual Wallace Art Awards, finalist
Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, New Zealand, finalist
2005 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast, Queensland
ABN AMRO Australian Emerging Artist Finalist. Renzo Piano Building, Sydney
2004 ABN AMRO Australian Emerging Artist, Finalist, Renzo Piano Building Sydney
Conrads Jupiter Art Prize, Gold Coast, Queensland
Citibank Photographic Archibald Prize, New South Wales Gallery, Sydney
2002 Photo Technica New Australian Photo-Artist of the Year, Australian Centre For Photography, winner
10 Cubed Collection, Melbourne
Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia
Deutsche Bank, Sydney
James Wallace Art Trust
Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Wollongong Regional Art Gallery