| Summary: | Artist and advertising executive Cedric Lamar Smith was born on May 17, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Southwest DeKalb High School in Decatur, Georgia, and worked as a barber after graduation. Smith's career in art started when a black self-taught artist showed Smith his studio. As a self-taught artist, Smith drew on a wide range of influences and resources, including landscape art, pop art, brand advertising, and photography. Smith's work was displayed in the New York Historical Society, the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia, the Francis Walker Museum in Thomaston, Georgia, the Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia, King & Spalding LLP in Atlanta, Georgia & London, United Kingdom, the Washington, D.C. Arts Commission, and Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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