Bayeté Ross Smith

Bayeté Ross Smith is an artist, photographer, and educator living in New York City. He is represented by beta pictoris gallery/Maus Contemporary. He began his career as a photojournalist with the Knight Ridder Newspaper Corporation. He has exhibited widely with such institutions as the San Francisco Arts Commission, Brooklyn Museum, Oakland Museum of California, TEDx MidAtlantic, Duetsche Bank, Rush Arts Gallery, Leica Gallery, Utah MOCA, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Goethe Institute (Ghana), and Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Poland). His collaborative projects Along The Way and Question Bridge: Black Males have shown at the 2008 and 2012 Sundance Film Festival, respectively. His work has also been featured at the Sheffield Doc Fest in England, Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam, and L.A. Film Festival. He has also been involved in a variety of community and public art projects with organizations such as the Jerome Foundation, BRIC Arts Media, The Laundromat Project, Alternate Roots, Hartford YMCA, and San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency.