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Leslie Smith III is an abstract painter. His recent works explore the inherent personal and political properties of abstraction as they pertain to expanding notions of Black representation. Smith earned a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art. He exhibits both nationally and internationally, and his work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the FRAC Auvergne in France, among others. Smith is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.