C h a d d y        D e a n        S m i t h 

Chaddy Dean Smith is a fine art photographer best known for his ongoing photographic study of the American landscape. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he is a retired professor of photography at East Texas A&M University in Commerce, TX.  He served on the University of Oklahoma’s School of Art faculty for thirteen years before coming to ETAMU and has more than thirty-five years of experience in both the applied and fine art fields of photography. He has conducted many workshops, including a pinhole workshop at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. Smith has presented his award-winning photographs nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Among venues that have featured his work are the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK; Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK; Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX; The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO; Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH; and Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, chose Smith’s triptychs for its “Reverberations: Diptychs and Triptychs” exhibition and for inclusion in its permanent collection. Smith’s “Multiple Images of a Complex Nature” series was selected as a Juror’s Pick of the 2019 LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards.