Gebruiker:SmithDavidson Gallery/Kladblok

SmithDavidson Gallery, based in Amsterdam, Mexico City and Miami, exhibits a dynamic range of leading modern and contemporary art in various mediums. The current mission is to acquire and present the work of significant artists whose work has either defined or is expanding the parameters of the visual arts.

History and development

Founded as Leslie Smith Gallery in 1969, the gallery was a leading specialist of and the preeminent source for 19th century Dutch painting. Smith coined the term “The Second Golden Age of Dutch Art” for the exhibition at Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem in 1986.

Leslie Smith’s son David assumed control in 1990 and the gallery then began to shift its focus towards 20th Century Modern and Contemporary Art. Gabriëlle Davidson has been a fundamental part of the gallery since 2007. Reflecting these evolutions, the gallery moved to Amsterdam in 2007 and later adopted the name SmithDavidson Gallery. A second location was opened in Miami In 2016, after having exhibited at Art Miami fair for over a decade and in order to have a permanent presence in the city’s international art scene.

SmithDavidson Gallery has also become known for its collection of high end Modern and Contemporary Australian Aboriginal painting. This field is a specialty of David Smith and Gabrielle Davidson and they have, over the last decade, built an important private collection of the same genre. After first encountering this unique art movement during a trip to Australia in 2006 they started collecting and a year later Simon Levie, the former-director of the Rijksmuseum, opened their first Aboriginal Art exhibition in the new Amsterdam Gallery. Being a leading resource ever since, the gallery has presented publications and exhibitions including “Signs and Traces, Contemporary Aboriginal Art” in Poland and “ORIGINS, Australian Aboriginal Art from the SmithDavidson Collection”.

SmithDavidson Gallery enjoys an esteemed international reputation and clientele that includes important private, corporate, public and museum collections. The gallery arranges virtual tours and online exhibitions and SmithDavidson Gallery has multiple permanent locations. Two in Amsterdam -in the museum quarter on the Prinsengracht 570 and in the prestigious Amsterdam Zuid - an exhibition space in Polanco, Mexico City and a gallery in Miami at Ironside, 7520 NE 4th Court. Besides featuring a program of rotating solo or thematic group shows, the gallery also exhibits at several prominent international art fairs that include EXPO Chicago, Art Miami, and Zona Maco, Mexico City.

Previous exhibitions

2021

• Lita Cabellut - Solo exhibition (Amsterdam)
• Marie Cecile Thijs - Solo exhibition (Miami)
• Icons - Group exhibition by Marc Lagrange and Federico Bianchi (Amsterdam)
• Eternal Beauty - Group exhibition (Amsterdam)

2020

• December Group Show - Group exhibition (Amsterdam)
• PAN Amsterdam 2020 Digital by SmithDavidson Gallery - Group online exhibition (Platform)
• Gavin Rain - Solo online exhibition (Platform)
• Soul - Solo exhibition by Ronald A. Westerhuis (Amsterdam)
• In Bloom 2020 | A month of celebration of Zhuang Hong Yi - Solo exhibition (Amsterdam, Miami, Mexico City)
• Origins | Australian Aboriginal Art from the SmithDavidson Collection - Group exhibition (Amsterdam)
• Flat Depth - Solo exhibition by Paul Rousso (Amsterdam)
• Marie Cecile Thijs - Solo exhibition (Amsterdam)

2019

• Journey - Group exhibition by Zhuang Hong Yi, Federico Bianchi, Frank van der Meijden and Willem van Weeghel (Amsterdam)
• Days in the Sun - Group exhibition (Amsterdam)
• Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art - Group exhibition (Amsterdam)
• The Photography Show - Groups exhibition by Marc Lagrange, Marie Cecile Thijs and Fede Bianchi (Amsterdam)
• One Step Back - Solo exhibition by Gavin Rain (Amsterdam)

2018

• East meets West - Group exhibition (Amsterdam)
• Chocolate - Solo exhibition by Marc Lagrange (Miami)
• Zhuang Hong Yi - Solo exhibition (Amsterdam)
• Between Heaven and Earth - Solo exhibition by Marie Cecile Thijs (Miami)
• Chocolate - Solo exhibition by Marc Lagrange (Amsterdam)

2017

• Season Opening Exhibition - Group exhibition (Miami)
• 'Egenis' | Ile-A-Vache A Year After Hurricane Matthew - Fundraising exhibition by Jason Henry and Stefanie Moshammer (Miami)
• Dutch Portraitist & Surrealist - Solo exhibition by Marie Cecile Thijs (Galerie Catherine Niederhauser, Lausanne, CH)
• Time Suspended II - Group exhibition by Paul Rousso and Gavin Rain (Amsterdam)
• Sign of the Time - Solo exhibition by Frank van der Meijden (Amsterdam)
• Time Suspended I - Group exhibition by Paul Rousso and Gavin Rain (Miami)

2016

• Argentum - Solo exhibition by Marie Cecile Thijs (Amsterdam)
• Mix and Match - Group exhibition (Miami)
• Equilibrium - Solo exhibition by Anna den Drijver (Amsterdam)
• Introducing Papunya | Modern and Contemporary Aboriginal Art - Group exhibition (Amsterdam)
• Utopia | Abstract Expressionism from the Desert - Group exhibition by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Kudditji Kngwarreye and Minnie Pwerle

2015

• Marcel Pinas - Solo exhibition (Amsterdam)
• Global Art Exhibition - Group Exhibition (Amsterdam)
• Signs and Traces | Contemporary Aboriginal Exhibition - Group exhibition curated from works of the SmithDavidson Collection (Cultural Institute Zamek, Poznań, PL)
• Marc Lagrange - Solo exhibition (Amsterdam)