Awards & Exhibitions

• 2018 2nd place, Knoxville Museum Of Art, Artist's On Location, Plein Air Event, Knoxville, TN

• 2017 2nd place, Quick Draw, Solomon’s Plein Air Festival, Solomon’s Island, MD

• 2017 Honorable Mention, Plein Air Richmond, Richmond, VA

• 2017 Solo Exhibition, Southern Light, Eno Gallery, Hillsborough, NC

• 2017 Oil Painters of America, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

• 2016 Honorable Mention, Easels in Frederick, Frederick, MD

• 2015 Honorable Mention, Wayne Plein Air Festival, Wayne, PA

• 2015 Solo Exhibition, Chad Smith, Gallery 3040, Old Forge, NY

• 2014 Best of Show, Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival, Canandaigua, NY

• 2014 Best of Show, Upstate Invitational, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY

• 2014 Award of Distinction, American Impressionist Society, Denver CO

• 2014 Solo Exhibition, Chad Smith, Gallery 3040, Old Forge, NY

• 2012 Honorable Mention, Plein Air Easton, Easton, MD

• 2012 Solo Exhibition, Chad Smith: An Impressionist In Crested Butte, Oh Be Joyful Gallery, Crested Butte, CO

Judging

• 2018 (Judge) Jacksonville-Onslow Council for the Arts, Art Block, Jacksonville, NC April 19-21

• 2017 (Judge) Artist League of the Sandhills, Absolutely Art , Aberdeen, NC June 5

•  2016 (Juror) 34th Annual Juried Spring Art Show and Sale, Wilmington, NC April 8-10

• 2016 (Judge) Paint Out Wilmington, Wilmington, NC Oct. 11-17

• 2016 (Judge) Cary Paint the Town En Plein Air, Cary, NC June 10

• 2017 (Judge) Artist League of the Sandhills, Absolutely Art , Aberdeen, NC June 5

Press

• Nifty Durham Blog

• Plein Air Magazine "Painting Other Painters: A Plein Air Tidbit"

• Outdoor Painter, Plein Air Magazine, "Winners in the Finger Lakes"

• Outdoor Painter, Plein Air magazine “Painting the Same Location in Series”

• Judsons Art Outfitters

• Barbara Stroud Blog

• 9 News Denver Colorado (television)

• KBUT Crested Butte CO(radio)

• WAMU Washington DC (radio)

• 96.1 Utica NY (radio)