Andrew Smaldone

My aim as an educator is to teach students how to technically conceive of an artwork to best understand conceptually what they want to create and why they are creating it.

Andrew Smaldone was born in Denver, Colorado USA and is SRISA Academic Dean and Full Time Professor of Studio Art. Smaldone is an artist and makes paintings and drawings that explore light, space, surface and color; a process he initiated in 2005 during his studies at Central Saint Martins in London. He has won a variety of important prizes including the prestigious Pollock Krasner Grant in 2015, New American Paintings selected by Dan Cameron 2011, and the Presidential Arts Scholarship to attend the George Washington University 1997-2001. He has shown his work widely in the US, Europe, and the UK.

Smaldone’s recent work, developed over summer sabbaticals and residencies in The Netherlands from 2023-2025, depicts architectural interiors and fundamental structures that compose them such as doors, stairways, windows, and bookshelves. He aims to achieve work through his artistic process that cultivates different approaches to making art and believes that the acts of painting and drawing can bring him closer to his artistic interests.  A 64-page catalogue of Smaldone’s paintings titled “Correlative” was published in 2023.

In addition to his roles as an artist and educator, Smaldone is an art writer who co-founded ArtSEEN Journal in 2005 and was the magazine’s Senior Editor until 2008, after which he began writing for various international contemporary art publications including London based Art Review. In 2011 he co-founded and was Editor-at-Large of Fisk Frisk.