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 Moods1993: Living on the Comet1987: Delirium (installation)1985: Change of Place1985: Ayers Rock Animation1984: A Figure in Front of A Painting1983: Designed Nightmare1983: Power & Passion SIGGRAPH 2001Computer Graphics International 2001, Hong KongRhode Island International Film FestivalPrix Leonardo, ItalyNew York Expo of Short Film & Video, New YorkAnima Mundi International Animation Festival Rio de Janeiro BrazilEdinburgh International Film Festival, ScotlandMicromuseum of Mediaterra Festival, Greece14th Foyle Film Festival, Northern IrelandMediarama 2001 Electronic Art & New Technologies Festival, SpainCanberra International Short Film Festival, AustraliaAjjijic International Film Festival, MexicoAnkara International Film Festival, TurkeyBanff Mountain Film Festival, Canada California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles, USAAnima Mundi International Animation Festival, Brazil‘Animania’ International Retrospective of Animation, Italy5th International Animation Festival, JapanCardiff International Film Festival, UKNew York International Expo of Short Film & VideoAnimated 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 Festival2001 First Place, Computer Graphics International2001 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 York1994 Certificate of Merit ‘Living on the Comet’ Cork International Film Festival1985 Sydney Morning Herald Traveling Arts Scholarship for painting. 