Cedric Smith is an American

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. He was a 2003 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina.20 years of Artists-In-Residence
McColl Center

Life and work

Smith was born in

Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

in 1970 and grew up in

Thomaston, Georgia Thomaston is a city in and the county seat of Upson County, Georgia, United States. The population was 9,816 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of and is included in the Thomaston, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is incl ...

, where he moved with his family as a young boy. He currently resides in

Macon, Georgia Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Situated near the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is southeast of Atlanta and near the ...

. His first gallery show was at the Barbara Archer Gallery in

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...

. Six of his images have been released as posters by publisher Image Conscious of

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

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20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists 1971 births Living people Artists from Georgia (U.S. state) People from Thomaston, Georgia Painters from Philadelphia 20th-century African-American painters 21st-century African-American painters 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-stub