DAVID CHAIM SMITH

Contact - dovidsmith@yahoo.com

1964: born in Queens New York City 

1980-1982: philosophy and art history at Queens College 

1982-1986: BFA in drawing at Rhode Island School of Design

1988-1989: MFA in drawing at Colombia University

1990: beginning of intensive study of alchemy and Western Esoteric Qabalah

1990-1997: ritual work and study with several western occult orders

1997: all activity in visual art suspended in favor of practical mysticism

1997-1998: residence at Crazy Cloud Hermitage  

1998-2006: immersion in Chassidic mysticism and traditional Hebrew Kabbalah and several teachers  2007: innovation of a set of graphic keys based on the 13th century mystical text ”Maayin HaChochmah”. With these I have resumed image making after my 10 year hiatus from visual art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Cavin Morris Gallery, New York City

1995 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2010 'Radical Jewish Culture’ Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 'Essentially Us' Cavin Morris Gallery, New York City

PUBLICATIONS

The Kabbalistic Mirror of Genesis (Daat Press, 2011)

"The silence that speaks", Arcana Volume V (Tzadik, 2010)  

Zion Matrix (self-published, 1997)

Intangible intersection (self-published, 1994)

REVIEWS

Ken Johnson (New York Times 2010)