MARK ADDISON SMITH
mark.addison.smith [at] depaul.edu / markaddisonsmith [at] hotmail.com
faculty profile
CURRENTLY
DePaul University, Associate Professor with tenure
School of Design, College of Computing and Digital Media
2023—present
PREVIOUSLY
The City College of New York, Associate Professor with tenure
Art Department, Electronic Design and Multimedia (area)
Program Director: BFA in Electronic Design and Multimedia and BA in Digital Design
Teaching areas: Design (undergraduate) and Digital Interdisciplinary Art Practice (graduate)
2012—2023
courses include:
Graphic Design Concepts
Illustration 1
Typography 1
Typography 2 (Advanced Typography)
Electronic Design and Multimedia 2
Digital Design Portfolio (Senior Capstone)
Senior Thesis (BFA Senior Capstone)
Project Research (MFA Thesis Preparation)
DePaul University, Full time Lecturer
Art, Media + Design (undergraduate), New Media Studies (graduate)
2011—2012
DePaul University, Visiting Assistant Professor
Art, Media + Design (undergraduate)
2009—2011
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Instructor
Visual Communication (undergraduate), Early College Program (pre-college)
2007—2012
EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts (Visual Communication), 2008
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Post-Baccalaureate (Visual Communication), 2006
Georgia State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Video), 1999
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2022—Artist’s book: The Streets Are Very Quiet, produced with a PSC-CUNY Grant, Research Foundation of City University of New York. Book specifications: hardback, 448 pages, 365 typographic drawings + index; edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered.
TO DATE, THIS ARTIST’S BOOK HAS BEEN ACCESSIONED INTO THE FOLLOWING PERMANENT COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARY ARCHIVES:
Artexte
Art Gallery of Ontario
Carnegie Mellon University, Artists’ Books Collection
Center for Book Arts, New York
Cleveland Institute of Art, Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library
Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
George Mason University, Fenwick Library Special Collections Research Center
The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kansas City Art Institute, Artists’ Books Collection
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Special Collections
The Menil Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections
Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection
The Newberry Library, Rare Books Collection
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California
Pratt Institute Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection
Princeton Firestone Library, Graphic Arts Collection
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Fleet Library Special Collections
University of Arizona, Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Arts Library
University of Dundee Museum Collections, Artists' Books Collection Dundee (abcD)
Walker Art Center, Archives & Library
Whitney Museum, The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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2018—Artist’s book: We Have Re-Energized Our Twitter Account, produced with a PSC-CUNY Grant, Research Foundation of City University of New York. Book specifications: hardback, 128 pages, 108 drawings + index; edition of 218 copies, signed and numbered.
TO DATE, THIS ARTIST’S BOOK HAS BEEN ACCESSIONED INTO THE FOLLOWING PERMANENT COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARY ARCHIVES:
Artexte
Art Gallery of Ontario
Baylor University, Book Arts Collection
Bennington College, Crossett Library
Birmingham Museum of Art, Artists' Books Collection
Brooklyn Museum, Artists' Books Collection
Carnegie Mellon University, Artists' Books Collection
Center for Book Arts, New York
Cleveland Institute of Art, Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library
Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Edinburgh City Libraries, Art & Design Library at Central Library
Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
George Mason University, Fenwick Library Special Collections Research Center
Getty Research Institute, Special Collections
Glasgow School of Art, Special Collections
Guggenheim Museum, Library and Archives
Indiana University Bloomington, Artists' Books Collection
Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago
John M. Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kansas City Art Institute, Artists' Books Collection
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Research Library
The Menil Collection
Messiah College, Murray Library Special Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections
Mills College, F.W. Olin Library Special Collections
Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection
Paper Machine
Pratt Institute Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Fleet Library Special Collections
Ringling College of Art + Design, Brizdel-Schoenberg Special Collections Center
Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Library Special Collections
Seattle Art Museum
Smith College, Neilson Library Rare Books
Smithsonian American Art + National Portrait Gallery Library, Artists’ Book Collection
University of Arizona, Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Arts Library
University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center
University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections
University of Delaware, Special Collections
University of Dundee Museum Collections, Artists' Books Collection Dundee (abcD)
University of Georgia, Special Collections
University of Iowa, Special Collections Research Center
University of Michigan, Artists' Books Collection
University of Oregon, Design Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kohler Art Library
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Special Collections
University of Utah, K.W. Duke Fine Arts & Architecture Library
Valdosta State University, Odum Library Archives and Special Collections
Walker Art Center, Archives & Library
Whitney Museum, The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Yale University, Haas Arts Library Special Collections
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2015—Artist’s book: Years Yet Yesterday, produced with a 2015 PSC-CUNY Grant, Research Foundation of City University of New York. Book specs: 58 pages with 24 drawings + interview related to the AIDS crisis; edition of 365 copies, signed and numbered.
TO DATE, THIS ARTIST’S BOOK HAS BEEN ACCESSIONED INTO THE FOLLOWING PERMANENT COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARY ARCHIVES:
Artexte
Art Gallery of Ontario
Baylor University, Book Arts Collection
Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Library & Archives
Bennington College, Crossett Library
Birmingham Museum of Art, Artists' Books Collection
The Boston Athenaeum, Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Brooklyn Museum, Artists' Books Collection
Carnegie Mellon University, Artists' Books Collection
Center for Book Arts, New York
Chicago Design Museum
Clark Art Institute Library
Cleveland Institute of Art, Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library
Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Edinburgh City Libraries, Art & Design Library at Central Library
Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library Art Department
George Mason University, Fenwick Library Special Collections Research Center
The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
Getty Research Institute, Special Collections
Glasgow School of Art, Special Collections
Guggenheim Museum, Library and Archives
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Herron Fine Press & Book Arts Collection
Jaffe Center for Book Arts
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at University of Minnesota
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago
John M. Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kansas City Art Institute, Artists' Books Collection
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Research Library
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Special Collections
The Menil Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections
Mills College, F.W. Olin Library Special Collections
Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago
The Newberry Library, Rare Books Collection
Oberlin College, Clarence Ward Art Library Artists’ Book Collection
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California
Paper Machine
Pratt Institute Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection
Princeton Firestone Library, Graphic Arts Collection
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Fleet Library Special Collections
Ringling College of Art + Design, Brizdel-Schoenberg Special Collections Center
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Wallace Library, Artists’ Books Collection
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Wallace Library, Circulating Collection
Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Library Special Collections
Seattle Art Museum
Smith College, Neilson Library Rare Books
Smithsonian American Art + National Portrait Gallery Library, Artists’ Book Collection
St Bride Foundation Library, London
Swarthmore College Libraries, Special Collections
Tate Library and Archives
University of Arizona, Special Collections
University of California, Davis, Shields Library Special Collections
University of California, Irvine, Artists’ Books Collection
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Arts Library
University of California, San Diego, Library, Special Collections & Archives
University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections
University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center
University of Delaware, Special Collections
University of Dundee Museum Collections, Artists' Books Collection Dundee (abcD)
University of Georgia, Special Collections
University of Iowa, Special Collections and University Archives
University of Louisville, Bridwell Art Library Artists’ Books Collection
University of Michigan, Artists' Books Collection
University of Oregon, Design Library
University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art Library Artists’ Books Collection
University of Utah, K.W. Duke Fine Arts and Architecture Library
University of Vermont, Silver Special Collections Library
University of the West of England, Bristol, Artists’ Books Collection
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kohler Art Library
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Special Collections
V&A Museum, National Art Library
Valdosta State University, Odum Library Archives and Special Collections
Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives
Walker Art Center, Archives & Library
Wellesley College Library, Special Collections
Whitney Museum, The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Yale University, Haas Arts Library Special Collections
York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (for additional titles)
Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Gund Library Special Collections and Archives at The Cleveland Institute of Art
James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives at Virginia Commonwealth University
The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Library Of Congress Prints & Photographs Archives and Special Collections
Ringling College of Art + Design, Brizdel-Schoenberg Special Collections Center
Samford University's Letterpress Archives and Permanent Collection
University of Michigan Library, Artists’ Books Collection
2022—Emory University, Woodruff Library Special Collections, acquisition of six You Look Like The Right Type letterpress broadsides, acquisition of artist’s book Pupillary Distance and How To Survive a 6th Grade Bully, curated by Kim Collins, Atlanta, Georgia.
2019—Ringling College of Art + Design, Brizdel-Schoenberg Special Collections Center, acquisition of 6 You Look Like The Right Type letterpress broadsides and 13 supplementary digital prints, acquisition of artist's book no. 2: understain, and How To Survive a 6th Grade Bully, curated by Janelle Rebel, Sarasota, Florida.
2018—Library Of Congress Prints & Photographs Archives and Special Collections, acquisition of Creative Action Network’s What Makes America Great 100-poster series (my featured artwork is one of 100 posters featured within the set: Marriage Equality Makes America Great), curated by The Library of Congress, Washington DC.
2018—Fenwick Library Special Collections Research Center at George Mason University, acquisition of artist’s book no. 1: homocardia, and no. 2: understain, curated by Lynn Eaton, Fairfax, Virginia.
2016—University of Michigan Library, Artists’ Books Collection, acquisition of artist’s book Is, curated by Rebecca Mary Price, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2014—Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art permanent collection, acquisition of Fagget Fucker (sic) Gay Alphabet typographic specimen and bathroom-installation photograph, from The Queer Writing on the Bathroom Wall series, curated by Wayne Snellen and Hunter O’Hanian, New York, New York.
2014—Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, acquisition of You Look Like The Right Type letterpress print, curated by Sean P. Morrissey (Studio Coordinator of Books, Letterpress, Paper, and Printmaking, Penland, North Carolina.
ARTIST'S BOOK DISTRIBUTION
Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam
Chicago Design Museum
Desert Island Comics, Brooklyn
Poem88, Atlanta
Printed Matter, New York City
St. Mark’s Bookshop, New York City (bookshop now closed)
Vamp and Tramp, Booksellers, LLC, Birmingham
Women and Children First, Chicago
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023—You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years, McMaster Gallery, School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina, October 26–November 30, 2023, invitation by School of Visual Art and Design Director Laura Kissel, Gallery Manager Giordano Angeletti, and Exhibition Committee, Columbia, South Carolina. (Exhibition in tandem with the 15-year anniversary of the You Look Like The Right Type daily conversation archive.)
2023—You Look Like The Right Type: March 2020, April 2020, May 2020 (pop-up exhibit), University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Design Conference, October 14–October 17, 2023, invitation by Assistant Director Christopher Klonowski, Design Conference Chair Sean Payne, and Co-Chair Alex Parsons, Atlanta, Georgia. (Exhibition in tandem with the 2023 UCDA Design Conference.)
2019—You Look Like The Right Type, The Bakery Atlanta, co-presented by Eyedrum Art Gallery, January 3–January 31, 2019, invitation by Board of Directors Willow Goldstein, Kelly Szatyari, Grace Kim, and Andrew Jackson, Atlanta, Georgia. (Exhibition in tandem with the 10-year anniversary of the You Look Like The Right Type daily conversation archive.)
2015—Years Yet Yesterday, Center on Halsted Gallery: Chicago's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, invitation by gallery curator David Joseph, Chicago, IL (exhibition in tandem with December 2015 World AIDS Day; exhibition featured 24 ink on paper drawings memorializing language from Larry Kramer's 2004 call-to-action speech: The Tragedy of Today's Gays).
2013—75 Voices, Kawaura Art Space, invitation by gallery curator Zachary Trebellas, Amakusa-shi, Kumamoto, Japan (exhibition featured 75 drawings sourced in overheard dialogue; exhibition was in partnership with Kawachū Middle School and the works—serving as examples of everyday, spoken English—were implemented within their English-studies program).
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024—Postcards From the Edge, a benefit for Visual AIDS, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York.
2022—Collections Spotlight: Alphabet Books, inspired by Golnar Adili’s translation-based book project, Father Gave Water / Baabaa Aad Daad and curated by Gillian Lee, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York.
2020—Your Day & Your World, co-curated by Andrew Wang and Janelle Rebel, Brizdel-Schoenberg Special Collections Center at Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida.
2020—Art + Activism: The Queer Landscape, curated by Siobhan Kealy, Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble performance space, Chicago.
2020—We Want As Much, curated by Politits Art Coalition, The Yards Art Collective, Rochester, New York.
2020—Graphic Era: A Celebration of Graphic Arts, curated by Kat Irannejad, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD.
2017—Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting, curated by Gonzalo Casals, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY.
2017—Creative Action Network’s What Makes America Great, curated by Guy-Serge Emmanuel and Rachel Spall, Seton Gallery at The University of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.
2017—Slow Type, curated by Bec Hac, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
2017—Tell Me a Story, curated by Jason Bly, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri.
2017—Luck of the Draw, curated by Grant Hargate, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO.
2016—It Can Happen Here, curated by Reginald Baylor, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI.
2016—4th Annual Juried Artists’ Book Exhibition, curated by Morgan Gieringer, Anne Keefe, Lauren Cross, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, TX. (featured work: artist’s book)
2015—Postcards From the Edge, a benefit for Visual AIDS, Luhring Augustine, New York.
2015—The Birds and the Bees, curated by Annie Silverman, Nave Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts.
2014—Child’s Play: The Intersection of Artists’ Books and Children’s Books, curated by Krissy Wilson, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
2014—SAIC Alumni Showcase, curated by Doro Boheme, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
2014—Artistic Types: Text in Visual Art, curated by Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Corridor Gallery: The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN.
2014—Library Thoughts 4, curated by Beata Szechy and The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Hegyvidek Gallery, Budapest.
2014—San Diego Book Arts Fifth National Juried Exhibition, curated by Sue Ann Robinson, Mandeville Special Collections, Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego.
2013—Hidden Agendas, co-curated by Linda Piacentini-Yaple, Sandy Anderson, and Pat Clark, Atelier 6000, Bend, OR.
2013—918 Letterpress Printed Ephemera Show, curated by Paul Moxon, Sarah Bryant, and Scott Fisk, Samford University Gallery, Birmingham, AL.
2013—Bound and Unbound II, curated by Karen Bondarchuk, University Libraries at University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
2013—Playground, co-curated by Michael McGinnis and John Watrous, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA.
2013—Text, curated by Prove Collective, Prove Gallery, Duluth, MN.
2013—Stellar: Book Art and the Cosmos, curated by Tracy Doreen Dietzel, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
2012—Ka-Pow! Comic Art & Storyboarding, curated by Phil McAndrew, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO.
2012—And Then She’s Like / And He Goes, curated by Chris Campe, A + D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2011—Typeforce 2: The Annual Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars, co-curated by Dawn Hancock and Ed Marzewski, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL.
2011—Intimate: Small Works, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY.
2011—Asking and Telling: Stories About Coming Out, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM.
2010—The Kinsey Institute 2010 Juried Art Show, co-curated by Lisa D. Freiman, Ph.D., Betsy Stirratt, and Garry Milius, SoFA Gallery at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
2010—DePaul University 2010 Faculty Exhibition, DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL.
2010—The Dirty Show, curated by Jerry Vile, The ViaDuct Theatre, Chicago, IL.
2010—Desire .10, curated by Marco Logsdon, Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2009—Closure, co-curated by Melanie Bush and Emma Powell of We Love Your Books, Artworks-mk, Milton Keynes UK and The University of Northampton, UK.
2009—Visibilities: The Art of Negotiating Identity, co-curated by Tim Smith and Jim Neel, Durbin Gallery of Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL.
2009—ArtFutura 2009: Infinite Possibility, co-curated by James Rondeau, Chicago Apparel Center, Chicago, IL.
2009—Inside/Outside: Book Arts, curated by MJ Goerke, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO.
2009—SXSW Austin Film Poster Show, curated by Austin Chapter AIGA: the professional association for design, The 908 Gallery, Austin, TX.
2009—BookEnds: The Book as Art, curated by Helen Frederick, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD.
2009—None of the Above: Assembling, Collaborating, and Publishing in the Eternal Network, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2022—Nomination, New York Emmy Award, category: Education/Schools (News), co-produced by CUNY DSI Director Ramona Hernández and EDM Program Director Mark Addison Smith: Visualizing Resistance—Animating The Story of The First Slave Rebellion in The New World, 65th Annual Emmy Awards (New York City).
2013—Honorable Mention within group show Hidden Agendas, co-curated by Linda Piacentini-Yaple, Sandy Anderson, and Pat Clark, Atelier 6000, Bend, OR (awarded by Barbara Tetenbaum, founder of Triangular Press and Chair of Book Arts at Oregon College of Art and Craft).
2010—Design*Sponge Design Your Own Alphabet, typeface design finalist, curated by Grace Bonney and sponsored by Veer type foundry.
2008—First Annual London International Creative Competition (LICC), graphic design finalist for artist's book Red, programmers: Alfonso Artiaco, Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu, Robert Berman, Marcia Fortes, Hossein Farmani, Xavier Hufkens, Pam Kent, Sara Kent, Rebecca McClelland, Vera Monro, Knut Ormhaug, Sathis Panagoulis, Barbara Polla, Ben Tomlinson, Jesper Thomsen, George Vamvakidis, and Lisa Wells.
PEER REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
2018—Klaus Kaindl and Brian James Baer, eds.; book chapter: Years Yet Yesterday: Translating Art, Activism, and AIDS Across the Visual and the Verbal, featured in queer theory textbook Queering Translation, Translating the Queer, Routledge.
2015—Charles Davis, Korydon Smith, and Beth Tauke, eds.; book chapter: The Queer Writing on the Bathroom Wall, featured in design textbook Diversity and Design: Understanding Hidden Consequences, Routledge.
OTHER PUBLISHED CONTRIBUTIONS
2023—Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden, eds.; The Blue Notebook, Volume 17, Number 2, Spring–Summer 2023, Centre for Fine Print Research, UK (featured cover and interior artist’s pages).
2021—Susan Gagliardi and Constantine Petridis, authors; Mapping Senufo: Reframing Questions, Reevaluating Sources, and Reimagining a Digital Monograph, as published in History in Africa: A Journal of Debates, Methods, and Source Analysis, Volume 0, Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association (featured artwork within article).
2021—Susan Gagliardi, author, Seeing the Unseen, Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural “Frontier,” Indiana University Press (featured infographics and maps within textbook).
2019—Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Gonzalo Casals, Noam Parness, eds.; Queer Holdings: A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection, Hirmer Publishers (featured artwork).
2018—Aaron Perry-Zucker and Creative Action Network, eds.; What REALLY Makes America Great: As Illustrated by the Artists of Creative Action Network, Andrews McMeel Publishing (featured artist’s page).
2017—Aaron Perry-Zucker and Creative Action Network, eds.; What REALLY Makes America Great (wall calendar), Andrews McMeel Publishing (featured artist’s page).
2016—Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden, eds.; The Blue Notebook, Volume 10, Number 2, April 2016, Centre for Fine Print Research, UK (featured artist’s page).
2016—Philip F. Clark, editor; illustrated artist's pages featured in literary journal The Promethean, Spring 2016, The City College of New York (featured artwork from Years Yet Yesterday series).
2016—Lara Penin, editor; The Fundamentals of Service Design, Fairchild Books/Bloomsbury Publishing (featured artwork of Next Door storefront, for IDEO Chicago + State Farm brand).
2014—Tom Seattle, editor; The Archive 52: The Journal of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York (featured accessioned works).
2012—Peggy Glowacki, Gretchen Neidhardt, and Alicja Zelazko, Curatorial Board; The Chicago Design Archive, a curated, online archive of 750 designers, Chicago Design Archive and Society of Typographic Arts (featured You Look Like The Right Type drawings).
2010—Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden, eds.; Artist's Book Yearbook: 2010–2011, Centre for Fine Print Research, UK (featured artist's page).
2009–Melanie Bush and Emma Powell, eds.; We Love Your Books 2005-2009: Five Years of Experimental Artists’ Books Exhibitions, Artworks-mk, Milton Keynes, UK (featured artist's books).
2009—Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, eds.; Design School Confidential: Extraordinary Class Projects From the International Design Schools, Colleges, and Institutes, Rockport (featured artist's book and accompanying print-based assets).
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
2023—University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Design Conference, mainstage address: You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years of Daily Type Drawings, programmers: Christopher Klonowski, Katharine McCann, Alex Parsons, and Sean Payne, Atlanta, Georgia.
2023—University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Creative Summit, keynote address: You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years of Daily Type Drawings, programmers: Katharine McCann and Ryan Sprowl, online.
2017—The 24th Annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, lecture: Years Yet Yesterday: Translating Art, Activism, and AIDS Across the Visual and the Verbal, Nottingham, UK.
2017—Voice(s) and Silence in the Arts, THE UNIVERSITY OF LORRAINE, lecture: Years Yet Yesterday: Translating Art, Activism, and AIDS Across the Visual and the Verbal, Nancy, France.
2016—Design Incubation Colloquium 2.5, FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, programmers: M. Genevieve Hitchings, Kathryn Weinstein, and Dan Wong, New York City, NY.
2015—Illustrator as Public Intellectual, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, programmers: Robert Brinkerhoff and Susan Doyle, Providence, RI.
2015—Queering Translation: Translating the Queer, CENTRE FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES at UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, programmers: Klaus Kaindl, Beatrice Fischer, and Margarethe Jurenitsch, Vienna, Austria.
2015—Design Incubation Colloquium 1.5, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, programmers: M. Genevieve Hitchings, Kathryn Weinstein, and Dan Wong, Providence, RI.
2009—Intersections: The 35th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference (panel: Surrealism and Non-Normative Sexualities), MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, UK, programmers: Dawn Ades, Jonathan David Katz, and David Lomas, Manchester, UK.
2009—Seventh Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (panel: Gender, Sexuality, Writing), programmers: Cultural Studies Association, Kansas City, MO.
2008—The 15th Annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference (panel: Identities and Desires in Text-making: Written and Visual Texts), AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, programmer: William Leap, Washington, DC.
2008—Midwest Art History Society: 35th Annual Conference (panel: Keepin' It Real: African American Art and Popular Culture), MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO, programmers: Amy Mooney and Kymberly Pinder, Chicago, IL.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2017—AIGA / NY Fresh Grad / Edu Talks 2017, hosted by Joe Marianek, and E Roon Kang, co-moderated by Aaris Sherin and David Frisco, Parsons, The New School, New York.
2017—Science (as) Culture: Redefining Sex & Gender, moderated by Shayne Mayack, Ph.D., Brooklyn, of Ligo Project, Brooklyn Commons, New York.
PANEL CHAIR
2017—The 24th Annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, programmers: William Leap and Lucy Jones, The University of Nottingham, UK. Panelists included: Chrystie Myketiak, University of Brighton: Murder and Desire: The Framing of Sexual Desire in a Mass Shooter’s Text; Kevin Regan-Maglione, University of Oregon: Queer Dialects in an Italian Graphic Novel: Linguistic Agency through Fascist Imprisonment; Pongsak Rattanawong, Chiang Mai University: The Titles of Thai Yaoi Fiction: Language, Sexuality, and Desire.
ARTIST TALKS
2023—You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years, invitation from School of Visual Art and Design Director Laura Kissel, Gallery Manager Giordano Angeletti, and Exhibition Committee of McMaster Gallery, School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
2023—You Look Like The Right Type, invitation from Professor Dolores Wilber for her Histories of Design course, School of Design, College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University, Chicago.
2022—Design Inking, invitation from Professor John Bowers, Department Chair, Visual Communication Department, School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago.
2022—Design Inking, invitation from Professor Tiffany Lin, Program Chair, BA Design Program within the School of Architecture, Tulane University, New Orleans.
2021—You Look Like The Right Type, invitation from Professor Lise Kjaer for her Introduction to the Visual Arts of the World course, Art History Department, The City College of New York.
2020—Speaking Volumes: A Miscellany of Artists’ Books (artist talk and post-discussion with three book artists), invitation from University of Dundee Museum curator Matthew Jarron, University of Dundee Museum Services, Scotland.
2019—You Look Like The Right Type, invitation from Gallery Director Willow Goldstein, The Bakery Atlanta.
2018—You Look Like The Right Type, invitation from Assistant Professor Ashley Hairston Doughty for her Advanced Typography course, Art Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
2016—You Look Like The Right Type, invitation from Professor Robert Brinkerhoff for his Voice + Vision course, Illustration Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
2016—Years Yet Yesterday, talk and book signing, invitation from Gallery Director Robin Bernat, Poem88 Gallery, Atlanta.
2012—Some Ideas St(art) As Other Ideas, invitation from Foundations Department, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Milwaukee.
2011—Some Ideas Start As Other Ideas (part of Exploratory Languages—SAIC Visual Communication Visiting Designer Series artist talk in tandem with supplementary graduate workshop: (Re)Inventing Typography, invitation from Professor John Bowers, Department Chair, Visual Communication Department, School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago.
2011—Bookform and Personal Histories, invitation from Professor Ann Tyler for her Truth, Perception, and Storytelling couse, Visual Communication Department, School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago.
2011—Old School, New School, invitation from College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University, Chicago.
2010—Open Book, invitation from Department of Art, Media + Design, DePaul University, Chicago.
CRITICALLY REVIEWED WORK
2023—Johanna Drucker, review; Derek Beaulieu, editor; The Minute Review, Volume 2, Number 7, Banff, Canada. (Review of my artist’s book, The Streets Are Very Quiet.)
2021—Winchester School of Art, Everyone Who Tells A Story tells It Differently, Just To Remind Us That Everybody Sees It Differently, LGBT+ Artists’ Books in WSA Library, University of Southampton, England—online blog, February 24, 2021.
2019—Nilda Lopez, Object of the Day (Years Yet Yesterday artist's book), Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum—online edition, June 4, 2019.
2018—Andy Fitch, To Be Thrown Against the Brick Wall of Humanity: Talking With Nathanaël, blog.lareviewofbooks.org, May 4, 2018. (Nathanaël, author, discusses the impact of my design for Sisyphus, Outdone. (2012), calling it “the most enjoyable and dynamic collaboration in book design to date.”)
2015—Charles David, Diversity and Design Published With Routledge, RaceAndArchitecture.com, November 13, 2015. (Praise for my chapter, The Queer Writing on the Bathroom Wall, within Diversity and Design: Understanding Hidden Consequences, Routledge, 2015.)
2014—Jason Foumberg, The Kinsey Institute Loves Chicago Art, Chicago Magazine—online edition, January 28, 2014.
2011—Nicolette Michelle Caldwell, The Second Annual Typeforce Exhibition, The Chicago Arts Archive, February 18, 2011.
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
2014—Artist Summer Institute, Creative Capital + Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, New York.
2014—Winter residency in letterpress and experimental typography, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina.
INTERVIEWS
2023—Stephanie Roznowski, author, You Look Like The Right Type—A Typographic Exhibition by Mark Addison Smith in McMaster Gallery, Garnet & Black, December 7, 2023.
2022–Steven Heller, author, The Daily Heller: Drawing to Manage Stress, PRINT, July 1, 2022.
2022–Chris Campe, author, All Things Letters: Every Day For 13 Years, March 26, 2022.
2020–NYCxDesign (producer) with Debbie Millman (host), The Mic: episode one, Illustrating Sound, October 30, 2020.
2020—Dave Roth and Jordan Schulman (editors), Creative Quarantine, Artist Mark Addison Smith, Esthetic Lens Magazine, September 10, 2020.
2020—Mark S. King, author, This gay artist draws what he (secretly) hears you say on the streets, Queerty, September 5, 2020.
2020—Steven Heller, author, The Daily Heller: Typographic Eavesdropping, PRINT, May 5, 2020.
2019—Kimberly Ruth, host, Art Uncovered (podcast), June 23, 2019.
2017—Kirsten Ruby, editor, Sharing Loudly, Designer Magazine (print), affiliated with University & College Designers Association, interview by Kathryn Weinstein, Volume 24, Number 2, Summer 2017.
2015—Winnie McCroy, editor, Years Yet Yesterday Exhibit Commemorates Larry Kramer’s Call to Action, Edge Media Network, November 20, 2015.
2014—Nelson Santos, executive director emeritus of Visual AIDS, Hopefully Viewers Consider Then Versus Now and the Grayscale Complexities of This Ongoing Pandemic, Visual AIDS Blog, November 7, 2014.
2014—Jerry Portwood, editor, and James McDonald, staff writer, Years Yet Yesterday: An Artistic Reflection on a Decade of AIDS, OUT Magazine, November 12, 2014.
2012—Hannah Stephenson, editor, On Creativity (Mark Addison Smith), The Storialist, April 6, 2012.
2012—Kimberly Coon, staff writer, New Media Studies Bookform Course Unites Digitality, Materiality, The WORD: DePaul University Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse, Volume 3, Issue 2, Winter.
2010—Mike Jeffreys, on-air host, New Day Australia, 2UE 954 News Talk Radio, May 10, 2010.
2008—Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden, eds., Focus on Artists’ Books in the USA, What Will Be the Canon For the Artist's Book in the 21st Century?, University of the West of England, Bristol, November 3, 2008.
CONTRIBUTIONS (illustration)
2020–present—Maya Bayram, marketing manager, NYCxDesign, The Mic, Seasons 1–3 (podcast).
2015—John Rezek, editor, The Rotarian magazine, Volume 193, Number 10, April 2015 (print).
2015—Michael Kuntz, editor, Used Gravitrons, Issue 19, March 2015 (print).
2014—J.C. Gabel, editor, The Chicagoan magazine, Issue 02, Winter (print).
2014—Michael Kuntz, editor, Used Gravitrons, Issue 16, May 2014 (print).
2013—Ryan Fitzgibbon, editor, Hello Mr., Issue 01, March 2013 (print).
2012—Peter von Frey Hold, editor, "You Look Like The Right Type," Slanted Magazine #17: Cartoon / Comic, Magma Brand Design, March 2012 (print).
2012–2010—Andrew Huff and Kelly Reaves, eds., Overheard Illustrated, Gapers Block, illustration column featuring overheard Chicago-based dialogue, weekly from 2010–2012.
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
2020— Andrew Wang and Janelle Rebel, eds., Your Day & Your World (group show), Brizdel-Schoenberg Special Collections Center at Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida.
2014—Gary Miller, editor, San Diego Book Arts Fourth National Juried Exhibition (group show), San Diego Book Arts.
2013—Scott Fisk, editor, 918 Letterpress Printed Ephemera Show (group show), Samford University Gallery, Birmingham, AL.
2011—Will Miller, Darren McPherson, Nick Adam, and Ohn Ho, eds., Typeforce 2: The Annual Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars (group show), Firebelly Design and Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL.
2009—Melanie Bush and Emma Powell, eds., Closure: An Exhibition of Experimental Artists' Books (group show), Artworks-mk, Milton Keynes UK and The University of Northampton, UK.
2008—London International Creative Competition, First Annual London International Creative Competition (LICC) Book No. 1 (group show), London.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS (referencing work)
2020—Elisa Wouk Almino, senior editor, A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine, Hyperallergic, July 10, 2020.
2020—Greg Evans, associate editor, Coping With COVID-19 Crisis: Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill Star Elizabeth Stanley Talks Planning—Career and Otherwise—In an Age of Uncertainty, Deadline, April 29, 2020.
2020—Rachel Gita Karp, program director, the Center for Artistic Activism, Drawing Out The Vote, The Center For Artistic Activism (c4aa.org), October 27, 2020.
2011—John Boardley, editor, All Sorts of Type, ILoveTypography.com, July 30, 2011.
2011—Amir H. Fallah, editor, Mark Addison Smith Listens To Your Conversations, BeautifulDecay.com, May 23, 2011.
2010—Austin Kleon, editor, You Look Like The Right Type, AustinKleon.com, December 2, 2010.
2010—Staff writer, You Look Like The Right Type, TheChicagoEgotist.com, November 22, 2010.
2010—Amy Ng, editor, You Look Like The Right Type, Pikaland.com, July 26, 2010.
2010—Ben Smith, editor, Overheard Drawings, Buzzfeed.com, 2010.
GRANTS
2021—Cycle 52 PSC-CUNY Research Award, University Committee, The City University of New York.
2019—Cycle 50 PSC-CUNY Research Award, University Committee, The City University of New York.
2019—Faculty Travel Program Grant, Research Foundation of The City University of New York.
2019—Division of Humanities and Arts Travel Fund, The City College of New York.
2018—Cycle 49 PSC-CUNY Research Award, University Committee, The City University of New York.
2017—Faculty Travel Program Grant, Research Foundation of The City University of New York.
2017—Division of Humanities and Arts Travel Fund, The City College of New York.
2017—William Stewart Travel Award, The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
2016—Cycle 47 PSC-CUNY Research Award, University Committee, The City University of New York.
2015—Cycle 46 PSC-CUNY Research Award, University Committee, The City University of New York.
2015—Faculty Travel Program Grant, Research Foundation of The City University of New York.
2015—Division of Humanities and Arts Travel Fund, The City College of New York.
2015—William Stewart Travel Award, The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
2014—Cycle 45 PSC-CUNY Research Award, University Committee, The City University of New York.
DESIGN SERVICE (includes)
2018—Juror, Young Ones Students Awards Design Brief, presented in partnership with PartnersGlobal and the United Nations TOGETHER initiative, by invitation of Jessica Gumora, One Club Education Manager, New York, New York.
2015—Host, Design Incubation Colloquium 2.1 at CCNY, June 3, 2015, with approximately 25 faculty members in attendance from a cross-section of northeastern colleges, including: Mercy College, University of Hartford, New York City College of Technology, Lesley University College of Art and Design, SUNY Purchase, Westchester Community College, CityTech, Queens College, Parsons/Stockholm University, and The City College of New York. Conference attendees presented research and work-in-progress papers for upcoming publication.