Education
2020 Masters of Fine Art (research). UNSW Art and Design, Australia.
2014 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class 1). Sydney College of the Arts, Australia.
2009 Diploma of Photo-imaging Certificate IV. International Design School, Sydney, Australia.
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Always Almost but Not Quite: Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Inverted Black Box: Black Box, Sydney, Australia.
2019
Stop for a moment: Scratch Artspace, Sydney, Australia.
I feel like a nervous wreck: Closed on Monday Gallery, http://closedonmondaygallery.com/
2017
Rev: Interlude Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Technological Disasters Now Outweigh Natural Disasters : Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia.
2015
Together With Machines: Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland.
Selected Group Exhibitions/Festivals/Screenings
2023
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL 2023: Museum of Interactive Cinema, Milan, Italy.
2022
Digital Art Prize (finalist): Gooloogatup Heathcote, Perth, Australia.
Mixed Business 3: Pari, Parramatta, Australia.
2021
Mixed Business 2: Pari, Parramatta, Australia.
2020
VRAL 2020 (online) https://milanmachinimafestival.org/vral-screening
the wrong tv (online) https://thewrong.tv/
2019
MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL 2019: IULM Open Space, Milan, Italy.
Kudos Emerging Artist + Designer Award Exhibition: Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
The Wrong Biennale: Centre Del Carme, Valencia, Spain.
2018
Human Jerky: meatbags through the eyes of technology: Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Kudos Emerging Artist + Designer Award Exhibition: Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2017
House Show: Constance ARI, Hobart, Australia.
Oh, its a horror show: Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2016
FIZZ: 107 Projects, Sydney, Australia.
Freedman Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists Exhibition: UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Makers Matter: Gaffa, Sydney, Australia.
2015
Be/Longing: Gaffa, Sydney, Australia.
Bespoke City: a Bike Festival: UNSW Art and Design, Sydney, Australia.
Language Disorder: Interlude Gallery. Sydney, Australia.
MCA ARTBAR: Museum of Contemporary Art. Sydney, Australia.
The Motor Show: Articulate Project Space, Sydney, Australia.
Skammdegishátíð: Listhús í Fjallabyggð, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
2014
The Breakup: 107 Projects, Sydney, Australia.
Awards and Residencies
2022
Selected Finalist, Digital Art Prize, Goolugatup Heathcote, Perth
2014
Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists
Skammdagi Artist in Residence award. Listhús í Fjallabyggð, Iceland.
Shortlisted, John Fries Award.
Selected Publications
“Stop for a Moment/Crashform Studies,” Learning to Live Together: Humans, Cars and Kerbs in Solidarity, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Urtzi Grau. eds (Bartlebooth, Lugo / Madrid, 2021): 51-55.
Matteo Bittanti, Event: VRAL #6_Brenton Alexander Smith gamescenes.org, 07/16/2020.
Paze, Beatriz. "Instagram más allá de los ‘influencers’: 10 artistas digitales a los que seguir." La Vanguardia, April 07, 2019.
Matteo Bittanti, Game Art: Brenton Smith's Stop for Moment gamescenes.org, 22/03/2019.
Josh Harle, Human Jerky: meatbags through the eyes of technology, 2018. 'Exhibition Catalogue'.
“crush+/-crash,” Interlude Galley Almanac, Jenny Alaca, 2018.
Zoë Robert, Waiting for the Sun, Iceland Review, volume 53, April-May 2015
Virginia Baxter, Considered Movement, Real Time, August/September 2014
Related Professional Experience
2014
19th Biennale of Sydney.
Assistant for Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger
Assistant for Hadley and Maxwell
DESIRE, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba
Assistant for David Haines and Joyce Hinterding
2012
18th Biennale of Sydney.
Assistant for Iris Häussler