Question Bridge: Black Males, a collaborative project with Bayeté Ross Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson and Kamal Sinclair is an official selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah, as part of the New Frontier program. This will be the second project Bayeté has collaborated on that has bee an selected for the Sundance Film Festival.

Question Bridge: Black Males is a transmedia project that will also feature exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, The Oakland Museum of California, the Chastain Gallery with the City of Atlanta and Sundance U.S.A. in 9 other U.S. cities

This summer Bayeté will be a FSP/Jerome Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park in Franconia Minnesota, where he will be constructing another installation of Got The Power: Boom Boxes and Community soundtracks. In addition to creating a Minnesota version of the boom box tower there will also be 2 Minnesota mixtapes. A Twin Cities mixtape and rural Minnesota mixtape.

As part of ROOTS Fest 2011 June 22 – June 26 in Baltimore MD, Bayeté will be working with Alternate Roots and curator Raquel De Anda to create a public art project entitled West Baltimore Lives, which chronicles the the people and oral histories of West Baltimore. There will also be a Baltimore specific installation of Got The Power: Boom boxes and Community Soundtracks. This version of "Got The Power" will broadcast oral histories collected from community memebers and music from local Baltimore recording artists.

60 Wall Street, New York, NY
There is No Looking Glass Here, at the Wall Gallery of Duetsche Bank, reimagines the book Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of a minor but enigmatic figure who plays a background role in Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, who is referred to in the Bronte story as Mr. Rochester's "creole" wife, and takes the perspective of her early life from a post-colonial Emancipation perspective: the drama of a white Creole who becomes broken by the anger and coldness of social repression from both black and white cultures.

Our Kind Of People, at Beta Pictoris Gallery is a solo exhibition as well as the first time work from "Our Kind of People", "Taking AIM", "Mirrors" and "Pomp and Circumstance: First Time To Be Adults" will all be featured in the same show. New work and never before exhibited pieces from all these series will also be shown. Look at the "Installations" section of the website, to view exhibition images.

2010 Create Change Artist-In-Residence, The Laundromat Project, New York, NY
This is a public art project located at the GoldStar Laundromat on 431 Edgecombe Avenue @ 155th street.
During his residency, Bayeté created a prototype for a larger public art project titled Boombox as Community. Through workshops offered at his local laundromat on the border of Harlem and Washington Heights, he worked with his neighbors to collect and record music and sound recordings that have personal significance to them. Bayeté's larger project will broadcast a series of musical mashups from these musical contributions through a sculpture of boomboxes installed in an urban center.

PowerHouse Projects and the City College Center for Worker Education present Bayeté Ross Smith, "Passing" a solo exhibition, Center for Worker Education, City College, 25 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY January 28th - March 5th

1969 is a large scale exhibition occupying the entire second floor of P.S. 1 with works drawn from every department of The Museum of Modern Art. Exploring a cross section of art made during a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult, this exhibition also will embrace five interventions by a current generation of artists. This piece is a collaboration with my colleagues Hank Willis Thomas and Shane Aslan Selzer to create a video installation for the bathroom entitled "Blackenized: Music for your MoMA". A response to the MoMA not including any Black artists in their collection from 1969.
Queens, NY October 25th 2009 - April 5th 2010

721 Broadway at Waverly Place
September 1, 2009 – October 18, 2009
Reception: October 8th, 2009
Posing Beauty is a book and exhibition written and curated by award winning photographer and art historian Dr. Deborah Willis.

Evolution of Print: Oakland Museum of California at the Oakland International Airport
Oakland International Airport, Oakland CA
August 28 - November 27, 2009

Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera
DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL
April 16th - June 14th

re: con-figure is the Kala Institutes's inaugural exhibition in their new space, an expanded, upgraded and more accessible facility that will fully support all of Kala’s programs. re:con-figure features works by Adriane Colburn, Midori Harima, Randy Hussong, Packard Jennings, Jeff Kao, Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott, Srdjan Loncar, Gary Nakamoto, Leslie Shows, and Bayeté Ross Smith.
May 1st - June 27

Artist-In-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art Charlotte, North Carolina. Fall 2008
The McColl Center for Visual Art's Artist-in-Residence program is dedicated to supporting artists regionally, nationally and internationally and promoting contemporary art. The Center is a place where artists work, conduct research and where exhibitions introduce a broad public to a variety of contemporary art practices by artists from around the world. The Center's goal is to present art and artists in a way that engages and enriches the public, while revealing the creative process through open studios, outreaches, community projects, exhibitions, and educational programs.
www.mccollcenter.org

Artist-In-Residence. El Bruc, Catalonia, Spain. August 2008