CV | Karen Titus Smith

KAREN TITUS SMITH

20 PEMBERTON STREET, PEMBERTON, NEW JERSEY 08068

Cell 609 726 1085 . E mail - [email protected] . www.karentitussmith.com

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AWARDS

2022 - Fellowship, New Jersey State Council of the Arts
2016 Wheaton Arts, 2016, NJ Glass, Invitation
2008 Wheaton Arts, 2008, May 3 -10
2006 Residency, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ - December 1, 2005 through January 31, 2006 4
1992 Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts - 1992
1990 - Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, City of Camden, Award
1988 - Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, City of Camden: Award

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION

2020 - Faculty Exhibition, Arts Council of Princeton
2019 - Open Studio, International Sculpture Day
2016 - Hutchens Galleries, Gruss Center of Visual Arts, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
2015 - Artetude Gallery, Asheville, NC
2013 - Artetude Gallery, Asheville, NC
2012 - Farnsworth Gallery, Bordentown, NJ
2009 - Garth Davidson Gallery, Moorestown, NJ
2006 - Garth Davidson Gallery, Moorestown, NJ
2004 - Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
1998 - Garth Davidson Gallery, Moorestown, NJ
1997 - The Gallery, Mercer County Community College, Trenton,NJ
1997 - Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 - Pavilion Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ
1992 - NJ Network, State of the Arts, Trenton, NJ
1990 - Cafe Gallery, Burlington, NJ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 - Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, online Gallery
2023 - Gala, a celebration of Art and Architecture
2022 - Taplin Gallery, Princeton “Women on the Wall”
2022 - AOY Arts Center
21/22 - Trenton Social, Trenton NJ
2018 - International Sculpture Day, Studio building GFS, Hamilton, NJ
2017 - Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie, Group Exhibition
2017 - Wheaton Arts, About Time, Group Exhibition
2017 - Alfa Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, Group Exhibition
2016 - ArtsCouncil of Princeton, Robeson Center, Faculty Exhibition
2016 - Pop UP Exhibition, 325 High Street, Burlington, NJ
2016 - LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Then and Now, Lovelies, NJ
2015 - Lighten Up”, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ
2015 - Artetude Gallery, Asheville, NC
2014 - NJ Sculptor Invitational, Wheaton Fine Arts Gallery, Millville, NJ
2014 - Artetude Gallery, Asheville, NC
2013 - 792 Gallery, Collingswood, NJ
2012 - Artetude Gallery, Asheville, NC
2012 - Inspiring Women, Artpride NJ/NJRA, Trenton, NJ
2011 - LOOK! on Lancaster Avenue, University City, Philadelphia, PA.
2011 - University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA., Opposites Attract
2011 - Moore College of Art, Conversations, Philadelphia, PA
2010 - Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
2010 - LBI foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Faculty Exhibition
2010 - Noyes Museum, NJ, Highwater Sculpture Invitational
2009 - Allentown Art Museum,, Allentown, PA, 30th Juried exhibition,
2009 - LBI foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Faculty Exhibition
2008 - Take Issue, Washington Square, Washington, DC
2008 - West Chester University, West Chester, PA, Philadelphia Sculptors
2007 - Moore College of Art, Alumnae Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2007 - Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2006/05 Lincoln Financial Center, Philadelphia, PA
2005 - Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 - MCCC/Artworks, Trenton, NJ, Faculty Exhibition
2004 - Pavilion Gallery, Mt Holly, NJ, A Celebration of Arts in Healing
2003 - ADM Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002 - Moore College of Art, Alumnae Exhibition, Journeys
2002 - The Gallery, Burlington County College Enterprise Center
2001 - Ericson Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 - Ericson Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999 - Siano Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999 - Distinguished Artists of Southern NJ, LBI Foundation of the Arts and Sciences
1994 - New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual
1993 - Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, NJSCA
1993 - Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, Fellowship Exhibition
1992 - Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual
1992 - Hopkins House Gallery, Haddon Township, NJ
1992 - Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ, Works on Paper
1991 - F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 - Hopkins House Gallery, Haddon Township, NJ
1991 - Pavilion Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ
1991 - Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
1991 - Imagery Gallery, Berwyn, PA
1990 - Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Southern, NJ Artists VII
1990 - Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
1990 - Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
1990 - Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, City of Camden, Award
1990 - Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ
1990 - Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
1989 - Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, Works on Paper
1989 - Pavilion Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ
1988 - Ariel Gallery, Soho, NYC, NY
1988 - Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, City of Camden: Award1987 - Pavilion Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ
1986 - Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ, Watercolor Annual

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, online Gallery
Chestnut Hill Gallery, Chestnut Hill, PA
Artetude Gallery, Asheville, NC
Farnsworth Gallery, Bordentown, NJ
38 East Union Gallery, Burlington, NJ
current -

COLLECTIONS - public

McGraw Hill Companies, Princeton, New Jersey; “ Six Cups”
Mosby Year Book, Philadelphia, PA; “Small Yellow Pitcher”
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, “Untitled”
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ; “Between Love and Madness”
Rahn Properties, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; “Strings Attached”
Represented in several private collections

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

Present - 2010 - Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ
Present - 2005 - Teaching Fine Arts Classes at The Studio Classroom, a fine arts facility providing educational and life enrichment programs in Pemberton, NJ,
2008- 2005 - Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014 - 2006 - Adjunct professor Fine Arts,Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
2009 - 2005 - Adjunct Professor of Fine Art, Artworks, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ
2011- 2010 - Artworks, Trenton, NJ. Adjunct professor Drawing & Painting Education Committee for Artworks redevelopment
2011 - 2010 - PAS, Princeton Adult School - Adjunct Professor, Acrylic Painting
2005 - Founded The Studio Classroom, a fine arts facility providing educational and life enrichment programs in Pemberton, NJ
2003 - 2001 - Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ
- Wrote a curriculum for fine arts painting
- Freelance Artist / Painter - Three decades of experience working with a Major NYC design
  firm and other interested parties. This work has placed my paintings in four and five
  star hotels, corporate spaces, resorts and private homes across the USA
2000- 1993 - Scenic Artist - Harrah’s Casino, Atlantic city, NJ ; Dennis Nothaft & Associates, Atlantic
City, NJ area
1999- 1994 - Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, Volunteer, Member of the Alice Paul Leadership
Program Committee. The committee created and established a girls leadership workshop
presented yearly to schools throughout southern NJ.
1997 - 1994 - New Jersey School of the Arts, presented after school programs and presented an
inservice program to address core curriculum content standards for NJ.
1984 -1980 - Artist / Sign Painter, Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson, NJ ; One of three responsible
for all art and signage in the park.
1978 - 1974 - Art Therapist, Co Supervisor, Art Therapy Department, Temple University, Woodhaven
Center, Phila., PA
1974 - 1970 - Artist, Painter, Muralist, Tattersfield Designs, Philadelphia, PA
1970 - 1969 - Introductory position in a fabric design studio, Eddington Studio, Lowenstein Fabrics,
New York, NY, Promoted to Colorist
1967 - Summer - NASA, Artist, Litton Industries,, Philadelphia, PA
1968 - BFA, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Continued Studies:

Present - Learning is a lifetime endeavor. Experience, projects, students, peers, reading and much more continue to teach.
2001 - 2000 - Completed Curriculum for Living, Landmark Education, Philadelphia, PA
- This program has educational recognition for continuing education
1984 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA ; Painting
1978 - Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Phila., PA; Painting
1976 - Temple University, Philadelphia, PA ; Art Therapy
1974 - 1970 - At Tattersfield Designs I apprenticed to an artist/professor who taught at Tyler School of Art

COMMISSIONS: SELECTED

From the 1980’s into the present I have been commissioned to work on numerous projects. Tom Lee Limited of
NYC sent many commissions my way. These paintings went to 4/5 star hotels and corporate buildings to
be placed in lobbies, presidential suites or other public and private spaces. I also worked for others on
occasion. Listed blow are a few of the projects.

2007 - Private Home, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, USA, Work through Aleksandar Popovic Studio
2004 - Private Home, Palm Beach, Florida; Ceiling mural, Work through Aleksandar Popovic Studio
2000 - Private Home, Palm Beach Florida; Figurative Ceiling mural, figurative wall mural, and an
actual Fresco. All work was done in collaboration with Aleksandar Popovic.
1998 - McGraw Hill Companies; McGraw Hill through art4business, Phila., PA commissioned a
Landscape Oil Painting after purchasing one of my exhibition pieces, “Six Cups”.
1997 - Tom Lee Limited/ Beyer, Blinder Belle of NYC commissioned four 8”x 8’ Acrylic Paintings for a
lobby at 360 72nd St., NY, NY
1994 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned Two oil paintings, Landscapes, for ANA, Washington, DC
1994 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned One oil Painting of Washington Irvings’s Home, Sunnyside,
Rye, NY
1993 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one mural sized painting of the Doral grounds, Miami Florida,
for the Doral Corporation, NYC
1992 - Holiday Inn, Boston MA, one acrylic landscape
1991 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned two oil paintings of historic homes in the Washington, DC area
for ANA, Washington, DC
1989 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one oil painting for St. Paul Properties, Inc., St. Paul MN
1989 - Philadelphia Zoological Society, Philadelphia, PA. commissioned one painting, portrait of a Warthog in
the style of Van Gogh
1989 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned two mural sized paintings for the lobby of a corporate space,
Baier Properties, Rockville, MD
1989 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned two oil paintings for Cunard Line, LTD, New York, NY
1989 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned two oil paintings, golf landscapes, for Fresh Meadows Country
Club, Long Island, NY
1988 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned three large murals of the Bath Crescents created for the Crescent
Bar in the Watergate, Washington, DC.
1988 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned four oil paintings developed for the niches in the Founders Club,
Bellevue Associates, Philadelphia, PA
1988 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned four oil paintings, golf landscapes (humorous subject created and
painted in a traditional manner) for the Fresh Meadow Country Club, Long Island, NY
1987 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one oil painting for the “Time and Again” Restaurant, Doral
Tuscany, New York, NY
1987 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one oil painting for the Watergate Hotel, Washington, DC,
Cunard Line, LTD, New York, NY
1987 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one large contemporary oil painting for Rahn Properties, Fort
Lauderdale, FL. The painting to be placed in the lobby of the Compri, Gaithersburg, MD
1987 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one oil painting, “Moonlight”, for the Doral Tuscany, New York,
NY
1986 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned two oil paintings for the lobby of the Doral Tuscany, New York,
NY
1986 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one oil painting for the “Time and Again” Restaurant, Doral
Tuscany, New York, NY
1985 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned six lunettes, oil paintings of historic homes and landscapes in the
Washington area, painted for the ballroom of The Westin Hotel, Washington, DC
1985 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned two oil paintings, landscapes, for The Presidential Suite, The
Willard, Washington, DC
1984 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned two mural sized paintings for The Ramada Renaissance,
Washington, DC
1984 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one oil Painting, Texas Landscape, after Bierstadt, for the
Driskill, Austin, TX
1984 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one painting for the Westin, Washington, DC
1983 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned four oil paintings, after De Chirico, for the lobby, Lowes
Glenpointe, Lowes Corporation, Glenpointe, NJ
1983 - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one mural sized painting, Girl with Dog, after Fragonard,
for the Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY
___ - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned one oil painting, landscape after lorrain, for the Sheridan Center,
New York, NY
___ - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned two oil paintings for the Sheridan, Hartford, CT
___ - Tom Lee Limited of NYC commissioned four oil paintings, landscapes after Bierstadt for the Sheridan,
Newark, NJ