Kathy Smith (born 1963) is an Australian independent filmmaker, painter, photographer, and Associate Professor with the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts (DADA), USC School of Cinematic Arts. She has been the Chair of DADA since 2004.
Smith was born in Taree, New South Wales. She graduated from the Sydney College of the Arts in 1985. Shortly after graduation, she was awarded the Sydney Morning Herald Traveling Arts Scholarship for Painting. She received the Desiderius Orban Art Award in 1986. Her films have screened "internationally, including SIGGRAPH N-Space Art Gallery, Sundance Film Festival, New York Digital Salon, Hiroshima, Anima Mundi, and Ottawa International Animation Festivals [... she] has exhibited internationally at group and solo exhibitions such as Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Conservatorio di Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence, Italy, and the Australian National Gallery, Canberra." Her body of work includes the award-winning animated film, Indefinable Moods (2001).
2001: Indefinable Moods
1993: Living on the Comet
1987: Delirium (installation)
1985: Change of Place
1985: Ayers Rock Animation
1984: A Figure in Front of A Painting
1983: Designed Nightmare
1983: Power & Passion
SIGGRAPH 2001
Computer Graphics International 2001, Hong Kong
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Prix Leonardo, Italy
New York Expo of Short Film & Video, New York
Anima Mundi International Animation Festival Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland
Micromuseum of Mediaterra Festival, Greece
14th Foyle Film Festival, Northern Ireland
Mediarama 2001 Electronic Art & New Technologies Festival, Spain
Canberra International Short Film Festival, Australia
Ajjijic International Film Festival, Mexico
Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey
Banff Mountain Film Festival, Canada
California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles, USA
Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, Brazil
‘Animania’ International Retrospective of Animation, Italy
5th International Animation Festival, Japan
Cardiff International Film Festival, UK
New York International Expo of Short Film & Video
Animated Moments AFI Cinema Sydney, Australia
2005 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award in the Creative Arts, USC, for ‘Indefinable Moods’
2002 Best Animated Short, USA Film Festival, ‘Indefinable Moods’
2002 Best Animated Film Convergence Art Festival
2001 First Place, Computer Graphics International
2001 Silver Award, Prix Leonardo Parma Italy, ‘Indefinable Moods’
2001 Rhode Island International Film Festival, ‘Indefinable Moods’
2001 Jury Award, New York Expo of Short Film & Video, ‘Indefinable Moods’
1994 Bronze Award, ‘Living on the Comet’ at the Expo of Short Film & Video New York
1994 Certificate of Merit ‘Living on the Comet’ Cork International Film Festival
1985 Sydney Morning Herald Traveling Arts Scholarship for painting.
