Siana Smith

Awards and honors

California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship as Emerging Artist, Sept 2023

de Young Open 2023, Sept 30, 2023 – Jan 2024Finalist of Boynes Emerging Artist Award, Dec 2, 2022

Finalist of Boynes Emerging Artist Award, December 2, 2022

Featured on Wil Talk with Artists, interviewed by Wil Scott, Maryland Federation of Art, Oct 26, 2022

Two of my paintings exhibited at the De Young Museum of San Francisco, “De Young Open”, Sept-Dec 2020

Anderson Ranch Scholarship Award, Jun 2022

Finalist of AXA Art Prize Exhibition 2021, New York Academy of Art, Oct – Nov 2021

Finalist, 2021 CCA Headlands Graduate Fellowship

Second place prize award “2020 Spring online Juried Show,” AWA (American Women Artists) Apr. 2020

Mentee in NCWCA (Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art) mentorship program 2022. Jan – Jun 2022

First Place Award, “2020 Vision Seeing Our Lives through Challenging times”, Cabrillo Gallery, Mar-Apr, 2021

Second Place Award, “Portraying Identity”, Cabrillo Gallery, National Juried Exhibition, Juried by Pauli Ochi, CA, Mar-Apr, 2022

People’s Choice Winner, #Women 2022, Maryland Federation of Art, Mar. 1-31

Honorable Mention and Selected Exhibitors, The Curator’s Competition 2022, Art Preservation Institute, April 1- May 31, 2022

Third Place Award of Recycled Art Day, Art Council of Brazos Valley, Nov. 2022

Featured Artwork: Siana Smith, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Dec. 2020

Second Place Award at GBAO (Greater Bay Area Open) art competition; Exhibition at NUMU, Los Gatos, Jun-Sept 2019

Merit Scholarship for MFA program at California College of The Art 2020 - 2021

Solo Exhibitions

“Spectacle,” Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA, Nov 2023 – Mar 2024

“Seen and Unseen,” SIP Gallery of Internation Art Museum of America, San Francisco, CA, July – Aug 2023

“Coalescence”, Horlock House: Art Gallery and History Museum, Navasota, TX, Feb - Mar 2023

“Allure”, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, AR, Jan 11 – Feb 8, 2023

“Precarity of Time”, Horlock House: Art Gallery and History Museum, Navasota, TX, Sept 2022 - Jan 2023

Group Exhibitions

2024

“Home”, The Drawing Room.Annex, 599 Valencia St, San Francisco, Jan 13– Feb 11

“Mono Variations”, California Society of Printmakers, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, Jan 13-Feb 17

“Colors in Art”, Belvedere Tiburon Library Art Gallery, Tiburon, Jan 18 – Mar 14

2023

SFMOMA Small Press Book Bazaar, SFMOMA, San Francisco, Dec 7

“Sheridan Prize for Art”, Honorable mention in Printmaking and Immigrant Artists categories.

“Devastating Loves & Transcendent Hatreds”, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Nov 1 - Nov 30

“de Young Open 2023”, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, Sept 30, 2023 – Jan 2024

“EARTH” exhibition, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, June 24-August 19Finalist,

CAL International Competition 2023, Juror: Annette Palmer, Conroe Art League, Conroe, TX, Mar 1 -31

“Boots and BBQ”, The Arts Council of Brazos Valley, College Station, TX, Feb 27

Lake Walk Gallery, The Arts Council of Brazos Valley, Bryan, TX, Feb 23 - Mar 24

48 Pillars 2023, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Feb – Apr

“Bandung to the Bay”, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA, Jan 15 – Feb 28

2022

“Voyage” National Juried Exhibition (online), Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Nov 19-Dec 17

Red Velvet, Holiday and Fine Art exhibition, Navasota, TX, Nov 15 – Dec 31

Artist-in-residence exhibition, Art Council of Brazos Valley, College Station, TX, Nov 2022 – Mar 2023

Fall Member Show 2022, Juror: Susan Badder, Maryland Federation of Art (MFA), Annapolis, MD, Sept. 28 - Oct. 15, 2022.

Salon at the Triton: 2D Art Competition & Exhibition, Jurors: Jeff Brown, Angela Holmes, and Terry Kreiter. Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, Aug. 13 - Sept. 11.

Marin Society of Artists, Expressions 2022 online exhibition, Juror: Donna Seager, Seager/Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, May 15 – July 14.

Final Finalist Round, Open Call 2022 Virtual Exhibition, Red Bluff Art Gallery, April.

MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction, Curated by Pasty Craig, Midway Gallery, CA, June 16 – July 18.

Bioneers Conference, Palace of Fine Art, San Francisco, May 14, 15.

Face to Face Exhibition, Juror: TaVee Lee, Arc Gallery, CA, May 14 – Jun 11.

It’s Ok to Laugh online exhibition, Juror: M. Louise Stanley, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Apr 15 – May 31.

61st Stockton Art League Juried Exhibition, Juried by Ann Jastrab, Cuong Nguyen, and Ruth Santee, Haggin Museum, CA, Apr 7 – May 15.

SHIMMER Regional Juried Exhibition, Jurors: Robert Abrams and Elizabeth Addison, June Steingart Art Gallery, Laney College, Oakland, CA, April 5 - May 9.

Honorable Mention and Selected Exhibitors, The Curator’s Competition 2022, Art Preservation Institution, April 1 - May 31.

People’s Choice Winner for #Women 2022, Maryland Federation of Art (MFA), MD, March 1-31.

Second Place Award, “Portraying Identity”, Cabrillo Gallery, National Juried Exhibition, Juried by Pauli Ochi, CA, Mar-Apr.

“Natural Habitats”, Cabrillo Gallery online juried exhibition, Juried by Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, CA, Jan 24 – Feb 25.

2021

“Vices”, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Nov - Dec

“12X12”, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA, Nov 8 - Dec 3

“Skull and Roses”, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA, Oct. 1 - Nov. 12

Awarded Signature level for 2022 membership at American Women Artists

Finalist, AXA Art Prize Exhibition 2021, New York Academy of Art, New York, Nov 1 - Nov 17

“All About Women”, Marine Society of Artists, National Online Juried Show, Aug 28- Oct 28

“Women Artists Making Their Mark”, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, National Online Juried Show, Aug

“Salon at the Triton 2021”, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, Jun-Sept

“Lifting the Sky”, AWA (American Women Artists) National Online Juried Show, May – Aug

Finalist, 2021 CCA Headlands Graduate Fellowship, May

Finalist, “2021 Spring online show”, AWA (American Women Artists), Apr

“Showcase 2021”, Wattis Gallery, California College of the Art, San Francisco, Apr

The first award, “2020 Vision Seeing Our Lives through Challenging times”, Cabrillo Gallery, Mar-Apr

2020

Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Featured Artwork: Siana Smith, Dec.

ART IN THE TIME OF CORONA™ | A Global Art Project Online exhibition, November

De Young Open Exhibit, The De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, Sep-Dec

2020 Expressions online juried show, Marin Society of Artists, May

2nd place prize award in AWA(American Women Artists) 2020 Spring online Juried Show, Apr. 2020; Apr

Coalescence, Joint Exhibition at Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Jan

2019

Concentrate, SFAI Student Art Sale, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, Nov

2nd place at GBAO(Greater Bay Area Open) art competition, NUMU(New Museum), Los Gatos, CA, Jun-Sept

“Spring show,” AAU, 2225 Jerrold Ave, San Francisco, May

2017

Red Wheelbarrow Award, 3rd place, DeAnza College, CA, May

Articulated Identities, Diego Rivera Gallery, Continuing Education Student Art Exhibition, SFAI, CA, Jun

Student Art Exhibition, Euphrat Museum, DeAnza College, CA, Jun