Born in Wolverhampton, England.
Studied at Shrewsbury College Of Art, Wolverhampton University and
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
Solo and two person exhibitions
Speed Is My Superpower, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025
I Went to Atlantis, Althuis Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam, 2024
Tripper, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India, 2023
Three Rooms, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, 2021
How we met, with Marliz Frencken, Althuis Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021
Walking In the Air, Xippas Gallery, Geneva,Switzerland, 2021
Imagine Peace, Baronian/Xippas Gallery, Brussels, BE, 2020
In This Together, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, BE, 2016
Portrait of a farm, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, 2015
Goodwill and The Unknown Man, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, 2012
You play the line, I play the sand, with Oliver Perkins, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, 2011
Great Expectations, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, 2010
Begin Again At The End, with Oliver Perkins, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, 2008
I Believe in Everything, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, 2007
Charming Country, Wagdas Gallery, London, 2006
Group exhibitions
SEEING RED, Phillips Gallery,London, UK, 2024
New Positions In British Painting, Telegraph Foundation, Olomouc, 2023
The Secret and The Sacred, Cromwell Place, London,(with Galerie Isa), 2023
Painters’ Painters, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2016
Say it in words, Coleman project space, London 2014
Creekside Open selected by Paul Noble and Ceri Hand, 2013
London-Munich, Cul De Sac, London, 2012
Fruchtbaresland, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2011
Newspeak: British Art Now, Part Two, Saatchi Gallery, London 2010
SV10: Members' Show selected: Jennifer Higgie and Rebecca Warren, Studio Voltaire, London 2010
Cory Michael Project, London, 2008
Awards
Prize Winner, Creekside Open selected by Ceri Hand, APT Gallery, 2013
Royal Academy Landscape Painting Award, 2005
Press
The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3, text by Holly Black, 2025
mid-day, Newspaper, 'Tripper', Review by Suchete Chakraborty, 30th April, 2023
Is Figurative Painting an essential form of art making? Edward Lucie-Smith,09 December 2016
Q&A- David Brain Smith speaks to Jack Hutchinson, Artist Newsletter, 08 December 2016
Amy Sherlock, Focus: David Brian Smith, Frieze Magazine, Issue 152, 2013
The artist who inspires me': Tracey Emin on David Brian Smith,Independent, 2nd September 2011
20/20: David Brian Smith by Tracey Emin, Frieze Magazine, Issue 141, 2011
Hannah Nathanson, Best of Brit Art, The Evening Standard (London), 14th October 2010
Helen Sumpter, In the studio with David Brian Smith, Time Out, 9th July 2010
Martin Herbert, Future Greats: David Smith, Art Review, Issue 20, March 2008
Art Fairs
India Art fair, Delhi, Galerie Isa, 2025
India Art Fair, Delhi, Galerie Isa, 2024
Mumbai Art Fair, Mumbai, Galerie Isa, 2023
Art Geneve, Xippas Galleries, 2021
Bad Bordeaux, Baronian Gallery, 2021
Art Rotterdam, Althuis Hofland Gallery, 2021
Frieze Art Fair, London, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2019
Frieze Art Fair,London, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2018
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2017
Brussels Art Fair, Baronian Gallery, 2016
Frieze Art Fair, London, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2016
Armory, New York, Baronian Gallery, 2015
Fiac, Paris, Baronian Gallery, 2015
Art Basel, Basel, Baronian Gallery, 2014
Frieze Art Fair, London, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2013
Frieze Art Fair, London, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2012
Frieze Art Fair, London, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2010
Frieze Art Fair, London, Carl Freedman Gallery, 2009