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Born 1951 Chicago, Illinois
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Austin, Texas

Education
1973 BA Colorado College, Colorado Springs
1970, 1973 Whitney Museum Independent Study

Solo Exhibitions
2015
• Excuse Me!?!...I’m looking for the “Fountain of Youth,” Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Excuse Me!?!...I’m looking for the “Fountain of Youth,” Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2012
• Fountain, Dan Gunn, Berlin
2011
• A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, collaboration with Mike Kelley, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
2010
• A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, collaboration with Mike Kelley, West of Rome, Los Angeles • Michael Smith, Ellen de Bruijn Projects, Amsterdam
• Maison Erectheum, collaboration with Jay Sanders, Testsite, Austin
2009
• A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, collaboration with Mike Kelley, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
• Michael Smith, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
• School Work, Homie, Berlin
2008
• Mike’s World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
• Schoolwork, Hales Gallery, London
• In the Greatest Country in the World, Why Do You Have to Be an Asshole?, Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium
2007
• Mike’s World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators), Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• Drawings and Videos (from Storage), Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
• Performance by Michael Smith, Orchard, New York
2006
• Take Off Your Pants!, collaboration with Joshua White, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
2005
• Take Off Your Pants!, collaboration with Joshua White, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
2004
• Michael Smith, Ellen de Bruijn Projects, Amsterdam
• William Wegman/Michael Smith, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas 
2003
• Playground, collaboration with Seth Price, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
• Mus-Co: 1969-1997, collaboration with Joshua White, Art Metropole, Toronto
• Michael Smith, Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois
2002
• QuinQuag Arts and wellness Centre Touring Exhibition, Hales Gallery, London
• Playground, collaboration with Seth Price, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2001
• QuinQuag Arts and wellness Centre Touring Exhibition, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York 2000
• Video Performance and other Stuff: Recent Works, Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Michael Smith, Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
• Michael Smith: A Retrospective Performance Featuring Mike, Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
1999
• Open House: Michael Smith and Joshua White, The New Museum, New York
• Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
• Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
• Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
• Paul Chan: Present Tense, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
• A Nite with Mike, Kunstverein, Munich
1998
• Michael Smith/Pieces, Performances and Stuff 1975-1998, in Out of actions: Between Performance and the Objects, 1949- 1979 (selected by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy). Visitor’s Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• A Nite with Mike, Videobrasil XII, International Electronic Art Festival, São Paulo
1997
• Mus-co 1969-1997, Lauren Wittels, New York,
1996
• Michael Smith/Performance, Drawings, Video, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, Four Walls, Brooklyn
1994
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, Dixon Place, New York
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, Jay Gorney Gallery, New York
1993
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, Artists Space, New York
1992
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, Dixon Place, New York
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, Caroline’s on Broadway, New York
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, The Drawing Center, New York
1991
• Mike’s Kiddie Show, Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY
• Michael Smith & Doug Skinner (a puppet show for adults), Four Walls, Brooklyn
• Michael Smith/Doug Skinner: Doug and Mike and puppets again, Dixon Place, New York
• Mike’s Kid Show, Home, New York 
1990
• Mike’s Big TV Show, Caroline’s at the Seaport, New York
• Doug Skinner/Michael Smith: A puppet show in progress, Dixon Place, New York
• Laughing Matters: Mike’s Big TV Show, Long Beach Museum of Art, California
• Mike’s Kiddie Show, P.S.122, New York
1989
• Mike’s Big TV Show, Caroline’s at the Seaport, New York
• Mike’s Talent Show, The Bottom Line, New York
1988
• Mike’s Big TV Show, Caroline’s at the Seaport, New York
• Mike’s Talent Show, The Bottom Line, New York
1987
• Keeping Up With the 80s, Dance Theater Workshop, New York
• Mike’s Talent Show, The Bottom Line, New York
1986
• Drawings, Notebooks, and Storyboards, Curated by Chris Dercon, Atelier Ste. Anne, Brussels
• 10 ans de Story-Boards de Michael Smith 1976-1986/Dessins, Pastels, romans-photos... et “The World of Photography,” Atelier Ste Anne, Brussels
• Mike’s Talent Show, The Public Theater, New York
• A Halloween Performance/Costume Party, Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston
• Performance Mondays: Michael Smith, Cooper Union, New York
1985
• Michael Smith: Performance and Video, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1984
• Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter/Snackbar, collaboration with Alan Herman, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; New York State Museum, Albany
• The Dirty Show, Het Apollohauis, Eindhoven
• The Dirty Show (featuring Mike), New Langton Arts, San Francisco
• The Dirty Show and Bill Loman Master Salesman, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
• Performance by Michael Smith, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati
• The Dirty Show, White Columns, New York
1983
• Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter/Snackbar, collaboration with Alan Herman, Castelli Graphics, New York; Amherst University Art Gallery, Massachusetts
• Mike’s House, Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indianna University, Indianapolis
• Mike Builds a Shelter, collaboration with Dov Jacobson, Messages to the Public series, Public Art Fund, Spectacolor Light Board, Times Square, New York
• Bill Loman Master Salesman Part 1, The Kitchen, New York
1982
• Mike’s House, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Pennsylvania
• Michael Smith: Performance/Video, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
• Michael Smith: Performance, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California
• The Daily Dramas of Mike, Film in The Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota 
1981
• Comedy Routines, Roscoe Louie Gallery, Seattle
• Michael Smith, Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco
• Comedy, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles
• Michael Smith/Comedy Skits, Performing Garage, New York
• Michael Performance, Western Front, Vancouver
1980
• Secret Horror, The Collective for Living Cinema, New York
• Down in the Rec Room, Hallwalls, Buffalo
• Down in the Rec Room, Castelli Graphics, New York
• Down in the Rec Room, The Gap Theater Toronto
1979
• Down in the Rec Room, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
• Down in the Rec Room, F.A.R. Inc., Los Angeles
• Minimal Message Movement, A Day with Mike and Baby IKKI, 80 Langton St., San Francisco• Minimal Message Movement, A Day with Mike and Baby IKKI, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
• Minimal Message Movement, A Day with Mike and Baby IKKI, DC Space, Washington, DC
• Down in the Rec Room, Goringer Zomermanifesatie 1979, Kattebak Theater, Gronigen, Corps de Garde, The Netherlands
1978
• Let’s See What’s in the Refrigerator and A Day with Mike, The Kitchen, New York
• Two Evenings of Performance, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
• Let’s See What’s in the Refrigerator and A Day with Mike, Hallwalls, Buffalo
• Down in the Rec Room, Artists Space, New York
1977
• Three Evenings of Performance, Collective for Living Cinema, New York
1976
• Fall Laughs – Comedy Routines featuring One Size Fits All Fashion Stunt Show and A Nite with Mike, Collective for Living Cinema, New York
1975
• Comedy Hour, Artist’s studio, Chicago
• Comedy Routine, Naropa Institute Dance Academy, Boulder, Colorado
• Comedy Routine, School of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
• Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York
• From the Object to the World, Inhotim Collection, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
• The Radiants, Bortolami Gallery, New York
• Performing Franklin Furnace, Participant Inc., New York
• Laugh-in: Art, Comedy, Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
• Nude Model, curated by Patrick Armstrong, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee
2014
• Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn
• 6th Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Scotland 
2013
• Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama— Manhattan, 1970-1980, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2012
• A Drawing Show / Curated by Dan Graham, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
• Panegyric (Mike Kelley Tribute Exhibition), Forde, Geneva
2011
• Moving Image, Contemporary Video Art Fair, London
• Queer State(s), Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin
• Entertainment, collaboration with Joshua White, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2010
• Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
• Changing Channels: Art and Television 1963-1987, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
• DENIM, 80 WSE Gallery, New York
2009
• The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2008
• Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano
• Deep Comedy, Marianne Goodman Gallery, New York
• Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, LiFE, Saint-Nazaire; Museion, Bolzano; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; Malmö Konsthall; Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Navarra
•The Puppet Show, collaboration with Doug Skinner, ICA, Philadelphia; Santa Monica Museum of Art; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Frye Art Museum, Seattle
2007
• Pawnshop, e-flux, New York
• The Price of Nothing, EFA Gallery, New York,
• Nexus/Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
• Land Grab, ApexArt, New York
• I Drank the Kool Aid, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
• Deep Comedy, Ballroom, Marfa,Texas
• At Your Convenience, Madame Lillie’s, London
• REALLIFE Magazine: 1979-1990, Artists Space, New York
• On The Collective for Living Cinema, Orchard, New York
• Pull My Finger, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
• Ceci n’est pas..., Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
• The History of the Future: A Franklin Furnace View of Performance Art, Henry Street Settlement, New York
2006
• Re-opening/20 years of Magasin, Magasin, Grenoble, France
• Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
• New York, New York, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
• The Downtown Show, The Grey Art Gallery, New York; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Austin Museum of Art, Austin
• Everybody Dance Now, EFA Gallery, New York 
2005
• Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Chicago Cultural Center; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
• Selected Videos and Personal Archive, PERFORMA05, Anthology Film Archives, New York
• Performa Radio: Radio Works by Visual Artists, Performa 05, WKCR 89.9FM, New York
• Contemporary Burlesque, Jeu de Paume, Paris
• Post No Bills, White Columns, New York
• Hunch and Flail, Artists Space, New York
• Media Lounge, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany
• Alibis & Aliases, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
• Dimensione Follia, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
• Exhibition #3, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles
• Precious Moments, Joymore Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2004
• Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London
• SPACEMAKERS, Lotheringer Dreizen, Munich
• Cynical Culture, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
• Standby: No Technical Difficulties, Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
• Video X, Momenta Art, Brooklyn
• Dimensione Follia, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
• Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
• Some Things Happening: 25 Years of Gallery Exhibitions, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis 2003
• B-List, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
• Surrealist Routes to Kiasma Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki Finland • RADIO RADIO, Internationl 3 Gallery, Manchester, England
• Cynical Culture, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
• Videodrome, Cosmic Gallery, Paris
2002
• To Whom It May Concern, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of Arts, San Francisco
• Enough About Me, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York
2001
• Fantastique, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
• Tele(visions), Viennea Kunsthalle, Vienna
• American Tableaux: Selections from the Collection of Walker Art Center, collaboration with Joshua White Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Miami Art Museum; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
• To Market To Market, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn
• Time-Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Tokyo TV, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• Brooklyn, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida
• At Home, Lennon-Weinberg, New York
• The Artist’s World, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco 
2000
• XN99, Espace Des Arts, Bourgogne, France
• Duchamp’s Suitcase, Arnolfini, Bristol, England
• Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Portland Art Museum; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; Miami Art Museum
• Ghada Amer, Lina Bertucci, Kendall Geers, Lars Nilson, Michael Smith, INOVA, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
• The Brooklyn Zoo: 16 Artists from Brooklyn, Staatsgallerie Stuttgart, Germany
1999
• Arrested Ambition, Apex Art, New York
• Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1998
• Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Super Freaks: Post Pop and the New Generation Part 1-Trash, collaboration with Joshua White, Greene Naftali, Inc., New York
• Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York
• Time Dilates at Three-Day Weekend, Tomar Studios, New York
1997
• Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
1996
• The Baseball Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
• Late Night Puppetry: The Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater, P.S.122, New York
1995
• Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
• Wheel of Fortune, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York
• Faculty work on paper, Yale University, New Haven
1994
• The Winter of Love, P.S.1, Long Island City
• Heart of Darkness, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
• Late Night Puppetry: The Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater, P.S.122, New York
1993
• Franklin Furnace in Exile: New Work at The New School, Crash Course, New York
1992
• 37 Rooms, Kunstwerke, Berlin
• Late Night Puppetry: The Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater, Downstairs at Time, New York
1990
• Laughing Matters, Long Beach Museum of Art, California
• The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980’s, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1989
• Links Hall Performance Series: Ray McNiece and Michael Smith (A Chalk Talk), Links Hall, Chicago
1988
• Identity: Representations of the Self, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch at the Federal Reserve, New York 
1987
• Fashion Moda, Documenta 8, Kassel Germany
• L’époque, la mode, la morale, la passion: Aspectes de l’art d’aujourdhui 1977-1987, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Celebrate Brooklyn: Performing Arts in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
• Surveillance, LACE, Los Angeles
1986
• Perfo 4-D: Contemporary Art Festival, Rotterdam
• Performance Art/Comedy Series: Michael Smith, Susan Mogul, Paul McMahon, Connie Beckley, Central Park Summer Stage, New York
• Documenta 8 Videotheque, Kassel, Germany
1985
• The Big Car Show: Contemporary Visions of the Automobile, Herron Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis
• Family as Subject Matter in Contemporary Art, Washington Projects for the Arts, Washington DC
• Funny Art, Concord Gallery, New York
• Memory Jam: A Retrospective of Films and performance at Artists Space 1974-1985, Artists Space, New York
1984
• Offset: A Survey of Artists’ Books, Hera Cooperative Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island
• Decade of New Art, Artists Space, New York
• Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition, Castelli Graphics, New York
• Visions of Childhood, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York
• Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
• Is This a Natural World?, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
• Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
• Shadow of the Bomb, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Family of Man, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York,
1983
• Video As Attitude, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Urban Impulses: The Artist and the City, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• The End of the World, The New Museum, New York
• 3-D Photographs, Castelli Graphics, New York
• Paul McMahon and Michael Smith: Comedy Performances, Film in The Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Performances: Michael Smith, David Wheeler, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
• Neo Narratives 1983 (Video, Performance, Music), The Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio
• Seriously Silly, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, New Jersey
1982
• A Fatal Attraction, Art and the Media, Renaissance Society, Chicago
• Photo Exhibition, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
• New TV New York, Long Beach Museum of Art, California
• Reading Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York 
1981
• Not Just for Laughs: The Art of Subversion, The New Museum, New York
• Love is Blind, Castelli Graphics, New York
• Robert Adams/Eve Arnold/Michael Smith, Castelli Photographs, New York
1980
• A Sound Selection: Audio Works by Artists, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
• Likely Stories, Castelli Graphics, New York
• Family Entertainment: An Evening with Marshall Klugman and Michael Smith, The Kitchen, New York
• Selected Performances, Performance Art Fesival, Williams College, Williamstown Massachusetts
1979
• Zomermanifestatie, Gronigen Summer Festival, Corps de Garde, Gronigen, The Netherlands
• Artist’s Notebooks, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
• Down in the Rec Room: Chicago Artists Perform, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1978
•A Sound Selection: Audio Works by Artists, Artists Space, New York; University of Hartford Art School, Connecticut
1977
• Notebooks/Workshops/Scripts/Scores, Franklin Furnace, New York
• A Peek at Mike, Grommets n°4, Grommets Theater, New York

Selected Solo Performances
2014
• Avuncular Quest, in conjunction with Rituals of Rented Island, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2012
• Screening/In-conversation and Tour with Baby Ikki, in conjunction with A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
2009
• Camp Kid Friendly, in conjunction with A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
• A Day with Mike, in conjunction with The Pictures Generation,1974-1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2008
• Baby Ikki Birthday Party, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
• A Day with Mike, in conjunction with 2008 Whitney Biennial, Park Avenue Armory, New York
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, collaboration with Doug Skinner, in conjunction with The Puppet Show, ICA, Philadelphia
• A Day with Mike, in conjunction with Mike’s World, ICA, Philadelphia
2007
• An Evening of Performance by Michael Smith, Orchard, New York
• A Nite with Mike, in conjunction with Mike’s World, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• A Nite with Mike, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
2002
• Baby Ikki, in conjunction with Playground, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan 
2000
• Selected Performances, in conjunction with Michael Smith, Le Magasin, Grenoble
1999
• A Nite with Mike, performance for Rita McBride Damenwahl, Kunstverein, Munich
1998
• A Nite with Mike, in conjunction with Videobrasil, Sao Paolo
1996–91
• Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment, collaboration with Doug Skinner, Dixon Place, New York; Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York; Holly Simon Gallery, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York; Caroline’s Comedy Club, New York; Mike Kelley’s backyard, Los Angeles
1991–90
• Mike’s Kiddie Show, Performance Space 122, New York; HERE Arts Center, New York; Cornell Cinema, Ithaca
1990–85
• Mike’s Talent Show and Mike’s Big TV Show, The Bottom Line, New York; Caroline’s Comedy Club, New York; 8BC, New York; Danceteria, New York; The Public Theater, New York
1987
• Keeping Up with the 80’s, Dance Theater Workshop, New York
1985
• The Dirty Show and Other Routines, in conjunction with Memory Jam: A Retrospective of FIlms and Performances at Artists Space, 1975-1985, Artists Space, New York
1984
• The Dirty Show, Corps de Garde, Groningen; The Odeon, Amsterdam
• Bill Loman Master Salesman and The Dirty Show, ICA, Boston
• The Dirty Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
• Bill Loman Master Salesman and The Dirty Show, presented in conjunction with Explorations, co-sponsored by MOCA and CalArts, Japan America Theater, Los Angeles
1983
• Selected Comedy Routines, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
• Bill Loman Master Salesman, Part 1, The Kitchen, New York
• The Dirty Show, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
• The Dirty Show, White Columns, New York
• Selected Comedy Routines, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
• Selected Comedy Routines, ICC, Antwerp
1982
• The Daily Dramas of Mike, Film in the Cities, St. Paul
• The Dirty Show, Franklin Furnace, New York
• Selected Comedy Routines, Oberlin College
• Selected Comedy Routines, University of Akron
• Selected Comedy Routines, Hallwalls, Buffalo
• Selected Comedy Routines, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
• Selected Comedy Routines, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
• Selected Comedy Routines, University of Iowa, Iowa City 
1981
• Le Car and Other Works, The Performing Garage, New York
• Selected Performances, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Selected Comedy Routines, LACE, Los Angeles
• Selected Comedy Routines, Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco
• Down in the Rec Room, Portland Center for Visual Arts
• Collected Routines, Roscoe Louie Gallery, Seattle
• Selected Comedy Routines, Western Front, Vancouver
• Let’s See What’s in the Refrigerator and Other Bits, The Mudd Club, New York
1980
• Down in the Rec Room (and more), Boston Film/Video Foundation
• Down in the Rec Room, The Gap, sponsored by A Space, Toronto
• Performance, in conjunction with The Times Square Show, organized by Colab, New York
• Down in the Rec Room and Other Bits, Castelli Graphics, New York
• Assorted Bits, with A. Leroy, The Mudd Club, New York
• Down in the Rec Room, Hallwalls, Buffalo
• Secret Horror, Collective for Living Cinema, New York
1979
• Assorted Bits, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
• Down in the Rec Room, sponsored by Corps de Garde, Groningen
• Selected Comedy Routines, The Collective for Living Cinema, New York
• Selected Comedy Routines, Colorado College, Colorado Springs
• Down in the Rec Room, DC Space, Washington, DC
• Down in the Rec Room, Baltimore Museum of Art
• Down in the Rec Room, F.A.R. Inc., Los Angeles
• Selected Comedy Routines, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco• Selected Comedy Routines, CalArts, Valencia
• Down in the Rec Room, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
• Selected Comedy Routines, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• Baby Ikki with Dead Dog and Lonely Horse, collaboration with
• John Malpede and Bill Gordh, in conjunction with Midway Between Comedy and Art, Midway Studios, University of Chicago
1978
• Down in the Rec Room, Artists Space, New York
• Notes for Rec Room, Franklin Furnace, New York
• Ikki Third Birthday, Franklin Furnace, New York
• Two Evenings of Performance, Open Space, New York
• Let’s See What’s in the Refrigerator, Hallwalls, Buffalo
• Let’s See What’s in the Refrigerator, CalArts, Valenica
• One Size Fits All Fashion/Stunt Show, University of California at San Diego
• Two Evenings of Performance, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
• Let’s See What’s in the Refrigerator and A Day with Mike, The Kitchen, New York 
1977
• Three Evenings of Performance, Collective for Living Cinema, New York
• Busman’s Holiday Retreat Revue, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
• Ikki Second Birthday and Notes for Let’s See What’s in the Refrigerator, artist’s studio, New York
• Busman’s Holiday Retreat Revue, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
• Street Performances, mid-town Manhattan and Central Park, New York
1976
• An Evening of Bits and Skits, Franklin Furnace, New York
• Fall Laughs: One Size Fits All Fashion/Stunt Show, Collective for Living Cinema, New York • Busman’s Holiday Retreat Revue, Artists Space, New York
• Ikki First Birthday and One Size Fits All Fashion/Stunt Show, artist’s studio, Chicago
• MagiComedy Act, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
• Winter Laughs, private performance, Artists Space, New York
1975
• Free Laughs, University of Michigan School of Art, Ann Arbor
• Comedy Routine, artist’s living room, Boulder
• Comedy Routine, Naropa Institute Dance Academy, Barbara Dilley workshop, Boulder
• Comedy Hour, artist’s studio, Chicago

Selected Group Performances
2011
• Title TK and Michael Smith, Performa 11, HA! Comedy Club, New York
• Michael Smith with Title TK, NUMINA lente, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York
2008
• NOTHING is exciting. NOTHING is sexy... Mumok, Vienna
2007
• The History of the Future: A Franklin Furnace View of Performance Art, Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, New York
1999
• Were you there?, Hertobenbosch and Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1996
• Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels, New York
1996,94,92
• Henson International Puppet Festival, Performance Space 122, Time Cafe, New York
1986
• Performance Festival, Rotterdam
1983
• Deeds and Feats, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
• Paul McMahon and Michael Smith: Comedy Performances, Film in the Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota 1980
• Family Entertainment: Marshall Klugman and Michael Smith, The Kitchen, New York
1979
• Performance Cabaret, Ear Inn, New York
• Chicago Artists Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 
1978
• Party Club Performance Cabaret, Franklin Furnace, New York
• Baby Ikki, Open Mike, Catch a Rising Star, New York
• Baby Ikki, in Thursday Is a Work of Art Series, Sidewalk Inc., Hartford, Connecticut
• Expo 78, ICA, Philadelphia
1977
• Grommets #4, Grommets Theater, New York
• Chapel Hill Fine Arts Festival, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1976
• Performances: Four Evenings, Four Days, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Public Collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Paley Center for New Media, New York
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Center Pompidou, Paris
• Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brazil