2024 Adjudicators

Pete Smith is an artist and art writer who lives in Bowmanville, Ontario. Smith has exhibited his work extensively since completing his BFA from York University in 1998 and his MFA from the University of Guelph in 2007. He has had numerous solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally including Aviary at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie (2023), Stein's Law at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (2020), NOANOA at St. Johnsbury Academy on Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea (2018), Southern Pastoral at Mulherin Toronto (2017), Postscript at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa (2015), New Frontier at Kelowna Art Gallery (2015), Initial Public Offering at Station Gallery in Whitby (2013), New Drawings at Colorida Exposicoes in Lisbon, Portugal (2012) and Proverbs for Paranoids at Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver (2010). His work is included in numerous private and public collections in Canada and abroad including TD Bank, The Colart Collection (Montreal), Imago Mundi (Italy), The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and The Art Gallery of Guelph. His writings on art have appeared in Canadian Art and Border Crossingsmagazines. Smith has held teaching positions at Western University, the University of Guelph, and the University of Toronto. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Drawing and Painting at OCAD University, and an instructor in the School of Visual and Digital Arts at Humber College. His exhibition Posts and Stories opens in March at the Drey Gallery in Toronto.