Frans Smit is a South African born artist and has participated in over 50 exhibitions locally and internationally.

 

Smit’s focus is mainly on portraiture and still lives, which blends in a degree of abstract. His pieces are all oil-based artworks, which exhibit a natural and organic balance between the palette and textures used..

Smit’s work mixes the abstract with the real. His intent is to disrupt the traditional portrait, bringing a sense of distress and the absurd.

 

Since 2015 Smit has exhibited in Cape Town, New York, London,Beirut, Denmark, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Antwerp, Miami and Riyadh.

 

 

Exhibitions:

 

New African South York, Residency, New York, 2015

 

A Cohesive clash, Tanya Baxter, London, March, 2016

 

Affordable Art Fair, Tanya Baxter Gallery, Hong Kong, June 2016

 

Urban Dawn II, Beirut, Oct 2016

 

40, Wolfsen Gallery, Denmark, March 2017

 

Trumpomania, McCaig-Welles/ Curator 19.90, New York, March 2017

 

Anamorphic Portrait, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, June 2017

 

Scope Art Show, Wolfsen Gallery, Miami, Dec 2017

 

Solo, Galerie Solo, Antwerp, Belgium, May 2018

 

Solo, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark, Oct 2018

 

Columbus museum of art, Columbus, Ohio, May 2019

 

Summer Group show, CHROMA, Rhodes Contemporary, London, Aug 2019

 

Solo, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark, Oct 2020

 

Works on paper, Rhodes Contemporary, London, Jan 2021

 

Solo, Uitstalling Gallery, Belgium, April 2021

 

Solo, Post Apocalyptic Renaissance, Galerie Sandberg, Odense, Denmark, Sept 2022

 

Solo, Museum Collection, Christopher Moller Gallery, Cape Town, Oct 2022

 

Middle /South, Lift Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May2024

 

Something Old, Something New, Christopher Moller gallery, Cape Town, May 2024

 

Ulfen +, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark, June 2024

 

Time waits for no one, Solo, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark, 2024

 

Affordable art Fair, AITY Gallery, London, September 2024

 

Investec Cape Town International Art Fair, Christopher Møller Gallery, Cape Town, Feb 2025