SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Yet another show of drawings and videos reflecting on youth, aging and a future of retirement by Michael Smith, Hales Gallery, London, 2020
Michael Smith: Imagine the View from Here, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2018
Excuse me!?!...I'm looking for the "Fountain of Youth", Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, USA, 2018
Timeline, Dan Gunn Gallery, Berlin, 2016
Threshold, organized by Robert Snowden, Yale Union, Portland, 2016
USA Free-Style Disco Championship, South London Gallery, London, 2015
Tate Live: Performance Room, Tate Modern, London, 2015
Excuse Me!?!... I'm looking for the "Fountain of Youth", Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, 2015
Excuse Me!?!... I'm looking for the "Fountain of Youth", Greene Naftali, New York, 2015
Videos and Miscellaneous Stuff from Storage (Pt. 2), Tramway, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK, 2014
Fountain, Hales Gallery, London, 2013
Fountain, Dan Gunn, Berlin, 2012
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, collaboration with Mike Kelley, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2011
Michael Smith, Ellen de Bruijn Projects, Amsterdam, 2010
Maison Erectheum, collaboration with Jay Sanders, Testsite, Austin, USA, 2010
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, collaboration with Mike Kelley, Sculpture Center, New York, 2009
Mike's World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators), ICA Philadelphia, USA, 2008
Schoolwork, Hales Gallery, London, UK, 2008
Mike's World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators), Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA, 2007
Drawings and Videos (from Storage), Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, 2007
Take Off Your Pants!, collaboration with Joshua White, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, 2005
Michael Smith, Ellen de Bruijn Projects, Amsterdam, 2004
QuinQuag Arts and wellness Centre Touring Exhibition, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, 2001
Open House: Michael Smith and Joshua White, The New Museum, New York, 1999
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Collection: 1970s - Present: New on view. Michael Smith, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2023
Seung-Min Lee and Michael Smith: ill-suited, curated by Rufus Tureen, Essex Flowers, New York, 2022
Buildings, Lodos Gallery, Mexico City, 2019
The Smiths, Marlborough, London, 2019
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 2018
Post Institutional Stress Disorder, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, 2018
Die Skulptur Projekte 2017, curated by Brigitte Franzen, Carina Plath, and Kasper König, Münster, Germany, 2017
Post-apocalyptic Realism: It's After the End of the World. Don't You Know That?, concept by Tonio Kröner and Tanja Widmann, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, 2017
Manifesta 11, curated by Francesca Gavin & Christian Jankowski, Zürich, 2016
SEVEN-ish, Seriously Funny, The Boiler, Brooklyn, New York, 2016
Toys Redux, curated by Raphael Gygax, Migros Museum, Zürich, 2015
NO JOKE, curated by Sanya Kantarovsky, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, 2015
The Chicago Effect: Redefining the Middle, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 2014
Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn, 2014
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980, curated by Jay Sanders, Whitney Museum, New York, 2013