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
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”
9 News Denver Colorado (television)
WAMU Washington DC (radio)