Vlad Smolkin (b.1984, Kyiv, Ukraine) is an artist and gallerist who lives and works in Baltimore,
Maryland. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012 and a BFA
from Boston University in 2006. Smolkin has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions
nationally and internationally. He worked as the director of Peter Blum Gallery in New York from
2012-2019, where he curated exhibitions with an international roster of artists. In 2020, Smolkin
opened CPM Gallery in Bolton Hill, Baltimore, where he works with artists on contemporary art
exhibitions and publishing editions.