RESUME

Education:
2015
● B.A. Studio Art and Landscape Studies, Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts
2025 (Anticipated)
● M.F.A., Studio Art, CUNY Hunter
New York, NY
● Advanced Curatorial Certificate, Hunter College
New York, NY
2024
● Universität der Künste Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Collectives & Representation
2021-Present
● White Columns, Artist Registry, New York City, NY
2019-2022
● The Front, Member

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2022
●Study of Wind on Grass, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2021
● Did your boyfriends ever come over and try to use your dads dental equipment to do balance beam
stuff, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2020
● Where I go, The Front, New Orleans, LA
● Men in Agony, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019
● Six Simple Machines, Aquarium Gallery, New Orleans, LA
● Mother’s Hands (in blue), Lucky Art Fair, New Orleans, LA
● Orifice, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
● Orifice, Springboard Arts, Fergus Falls, MN
● My Mother’s Last Garden, Art Klub, New Orleans, LA
● AS WE MOVE FURTHER FROM EACH OTHER ACROSS TIME/SPACE DIMENSIONS I FEEL
YOUR ANGER INSIDE ME AND AM GRATEFUL FOR THE PROXIMITY, Southern Heat Exchange,
New Orleans, LA

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024
● Assembly, New Art Dealers Alliance, curated by Katie A. Pfohl
● The World Pulse Beats Beyond My Door, curated by Gunner Dongieux, Lili Marto, and Katia
Leonelli, Brooklyn, NY
● Easy Apple, curated by Gunner Dongieux, New Orleans, LA
2023
● Playground and Dreams, Chashama, New York, NY
● Thank god every day the whole house did not burn down, 205 Hudson, New York, NY
● Vestigial Structures, 205 Hudson, New York, NY
● Terrible Terrible, 205 Hudson, New York, NY
2022
● Remember Earth?, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
● Summer Reading, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
● Monsters and Monstrosities, (Carson Smith and Rosalie Smith), The Front, New Orleans, LA
● Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
2021
● Nothing Toulouse, curated by Rosalie Smith, The Front, New Orlens, LA
● Flat File Exhibition, curated by Kate Mothes of Young Space, Collar Works
● Louisiana Contemporary, curated by Hallie Ringle of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Ogden
Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
● Far and Wide, curated by Nicelle Beauchene and Franklin Parrasch of Parts & Labor Beacon,
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum
● Watching the Palms Swirl a Sickening Pattern Past the Glass, Curated by Rosalie Smith, The
Front, New Orleans, LA
● Make America What America Must Become, curated by George Scheer, Katrinne
Neumann and Toccarra A.H. Thomas, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2020
● New Member Show, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2019
● Visions of Venus, St. Petersburg Women’s Collective, St. Petersburg, FL ● Farewell Show, Brand
New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
● Ephemeral Voice, Book Club Gallery, New Orleans, LA
● Fabricated, Brand New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
● Constructing the Break, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Curatorial:
2022
● Curious Table, Curious Table was a three-part family-style dinner and exhibition series offering a
multidisciplinary exploration of emerging, New Orleans-based artists. Personally founded, executed,
and curated.
● Monsters and Monstrosities, (Carson Smith and Rosalie Smith), The Front, New Orleans, LA
2021
● Gas Station Projects, curator, founder, & facilitator, April 2021-present. A four part roving art
exhibition series popping up in disused spaces in New Orleans. Personally founded, executed, and
curated.
● Watching the Palms Swirl a Sickening Pattern Past the Glass, The Front, New Orleans, LA
● Uptown Laundry, New Orleans, LA
● Nothing Toulouse, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2020
● For all the parties I could not attend, Nailah Griffin, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2019
● Curator, Founder & Creative Director, Lucky Art Fair, New Orleans, LA
Conceptualized, founded, co-directed this experimental art fair, which had a socialist financial and
curatorial model, ensuring that all artists had equal opportunity to be represented and paid by the fair,
regardless of the marketability of their work. Provided microgrants to local BIPOC creatives in need in
Fall 2020.

Grants, Workshops, & Residencies:
2022
● Salon Artist Residency, project of The Arts Council, New Orleans, LA
2021
● Penland School of Craft, Woodworking Workshop with Liz Koerner, scholarship recipient, Asheville,
NC
● Burnaway, Art Writing Intensive, scholarship recipient
2020
● Southern Heat Exchange (digital residency)
● Prospect Satelite Grant, Awarded in January 2020, for the second year of Lucky Art Fair, New
Orleans, LA
2019
● Hinge Arts at the Kirkbridge (career development residency), Fergus Falls, MN
● Art Klub, New Orleans, LA
2018
● Snow Farm Craft School, Monotype Printing Workshop.
Teaching artist scholarship recipient, Williamsburg, MA,
2014
● Nes Artist Residency, Skargastrond, Iceland

Professional Experience:
2023
● Spanierman Modern, Gallery Manager. Designed the 2023-2024 exhibition calendar, handled artist
contracts, contracted curators, curatorial work, created digital flipbooks of gallery inventory,
copywriting, aided with primary and secondary market sales.
● Hunter College, Teaching Assistant. TA for Nari Ward’s graduate sculpture seminar and Yve Laris
Cohen’s undergraduate sculpture seminar. Guided critiques, organized syllabus, fielded student
questions, and arranged visiting artist lectures.
● Thatcher Projects, Gallery Manager. Managed all aspects of administration of this small gallery.
Sales, curated several exhibitions, wrote press releases, managed website, social media, hired and
managed interns, managed all shipping, invoicing, and office communications.
2022
● Effervesence, Server, Fine dining restaurant and wine bar. Sales, customer service, wine
knowledge.
● Substitute Teacher and Teaching Artist, Young Audiences, New Orleans, LA.
Managed K-7 classrooms with 30+ students
2021-
● Studio Assistant, Alex Podesta, New Orleans, LA.
Duties, tasks and skills include: life casting, woodworking, general support
2020-2021
● Treasurer, The Front
Managed dues collection, budgeting, grant applications, and data collection for an 18 member
cooperatively run art gallery.
2018-20
● Studio Assistant, John Bukaty, New Orleans, LA.
Duties, tasks and skills include: framing, shipping, painting, administrative support
2019
● Founder & Creative Director, Lucky Art Fair, New Orleans, LA
Conceptualized, founded, co-directed this experimental art fair, which had a socialist financial and
curatorial model, ensuring that all artists had equal opportunity to be represented and paid by the fair,
regardless of the marketability of their work. Provided microgrants to local BIPOC creatives in need in
Fall 2020.
2018
● Teaching Artist in Residence, Snow Farm Craft School
Art Education, Curriculum Development, Painting and Drawing
2016-17
● Institutional Giving Manager, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. Duties, tasks and skills
include: grant writing, event planning, social media coordinator, media engineer and development.
Wrote an average of 85 grants per year with a 65-70% success rate.
● Fabrication Assistant, The Solomon Group, New Orleans, LA
Part of a large design and fabrication team. Manual labor, carpentry, and painting.
2015
● Research Assistant to Ninette Rothmuller, Kahn Institute, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Academic Writing, Research, Editing, Bibliography/Image Citation Formatting

Selected Press:
● Pham, Andy. “Rosalie Smith, Study of Wind on Grass (The Front ).” Antigravity, Apr. 2022, pp.
37–37.
●https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/rosalie-smith-collective-grief
cac-new-orleans-1234590324/, ONE WORK: ROSALIE SMITH’S “MY MOTHER’S LAST GARDEN,”
By Lauren Stroh, April 20, 2021
●https://burnaway.org/daily/a-portrait-of-time-collapsing-at-the-front-new-orleans/ ● WWNO/Via Nola
Vie, “In search of radical equity: In conversation with Lucky Art Fair’s Rosalie Smith and Regina
Parkinson,” David Bennedetto, AUG 29, 2019 ●
https://www.vianolavie.org/2019/08/29/in-search-of-radical-equity-in-conversation
-with-luck-art-fairs-rosalie-smith-and-regina-parkinson/
● Here Magazine, “Meet the New Orleans Artists Lifting Community Spirits,” Ally Betker
https://www.heremagazine.com/articles/new-orleans-artists
● Here Magazine, “The Survival of New Orleans's Arts Community After Katrina,” Ally Betker
https://www.heremagazine.com/articles/new-orleans-artists-katrina
● • The Advocate, “Want to get lucky? More than 35 artists take over a Mid-City locale for all-is-equal
art installation,” Sue Strachan
https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/article_862f4ce0-8
3d6-11e9-8382-87f6ccd64afe.html
● Fergus Falls Journal, “Exploring grief, death, and life: Rosalie Smith Explores the ephemeral
through her Art,” Johanna Armstrong
https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2019/04/exploring-grief-death-and-life-rosalie
smith-explores-the-ephemeral-through-her-art/?fbclid=IwAR3G3wH4gfShni2OZ3
hbY-qTlRcvN1thuOhsNDGEtbCFbgmMfgLkVi4AnnM
● The Piece with Madame Kelso: Rosalie Smith & "Evoking the Father" by Sharon Hoffman
https://www.buzzsprout.com/247991/1044346
● Critics’ Picks: “Constructing the Break” at the Contemporary Arts Center, Nic Brierre Aziz , John
D’addario, Taylor Murrow, September 18, 2018 ●
http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2018/critics-picks-constructing-the-break-at-th
e-contemporary-arts-center