John W. Smith - Assistant Director, Andy Warhol Museum

John W. Smith is the Assistant Director for Collections, Exhibitions and Research at the Andy Warhol Museum, where he has worked since the Museum’s opening in 1994. Previously, he worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Royal Opera House, London, England.

Recent exhibitions and publications include Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith (2002), Andy Warhol: His Work, Ideas, and Process (2003), The American Supermarket (2003), Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed (2004), Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules (2004), a collaboration with the Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany, Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol (2005), and Andy Warhol: Artist of Modern Life, the first major exhibition of Warhol’s work to travel to three major museum’s in Russia.