Artist Bio

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David B. Smith is a Hawai‘i born printmaker working in a variety of print techniques. Smith received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawai'i and a Higher Diploma in Fine Arts from The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. At The Slade, Smith was under the tutelage of master printer Stanley Jones, called the Father of Modern British Lithography. In 2005 Smith was elected to the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers as an Associate Royal Etcher (ARE). He is the first Hawai'i-born artist to receive this title.

Smith taught lithography at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Linekona Art Center from 1996–2017.