Gary Smith lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

He has been a practicing artist since the mid 1980’s and has exhibited work extensively in both solo and group exhibitions. He has been a finalist in significant art prizes including the Archibald Prize (2012), the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2012), the John Fries Memorial Prize (2010), theWaterhouse Natural History Art Prize (2009), and the Albany Art Prize (2009).

His work moves between abstracted and digitally manipulated work revolving around industrial landscapes.

Canvases are infused with a splendour, opulence, dignity, stateliness, and majestic sumptuousness beyond their original status, aligned with this reductive approach to landscape and retain the stillness and Oriental ‘sensibility’ and silkiness of surface that is distinctive.

He has completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Master of Philosophy in Visual Arts at the Australian National University.