Zack Smithey is an interdisciplinary artist who continues to evolve, explore new concepts, designs and creative processes. Smithey has been working as a professional artist for the last 20 years and taught high school art for 7 years. In addition to showing in galleries, he paints murals, works with designers, agencies, and clients to source art from his inventory or create custom commissions. He has hundreds of pieces in his current inventory and over 3,000 original pieces in public, private and corporate collections.

In addition to art, Zack designed, consulted and oversaw the construction for the first 2 shipping container homes in the St. Louis area (St. Charles, 2016) and Old North neighborhood, STL, 2019.

Smithey has had over 100 solo and group shows (NYC, NJ, STL, Palm Beach, Palm Springs, Laguna Beach, La Jolla), has done art/film work for Lincoln Center in NYC (A Short Film for the End of Time - Part 1, Part 2), created a series of art videos for world renowned pianist Inon Barnatan (Darknesse Visible - La Valse, Ondine, Fantasy of Peter Grimes, Darknesse Visible, Le Gibet ), commissioned by Boeing to create 2 steel sculptures for their STL headquarters, commissioned performance piece for the La Jolla Music Society - Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, is the creator of the Easter Art Hunt in STL, was commissioned to do Album art for Smother Party in Brooklyn, and has been published in the New Yorker, Sophisticated Living, ShoutOut LA, CURBED, Newsweek, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis At Home Magazine, All The Art, INSIDER, St. Louis Magazine, StreetScapes Magazine, St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, Uptown Magazine, Community News, Lindenwood Connection and St. Charles Magazine. He has been covered/interviewed on NETFLIX, KCTV5, NBC, Fox, CBS, and USA Today

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LOCAL636By LOCAL636Feb 10, 2022