Author, art gallery director, curator, and consultant, Tom Smart has written award-winning, critical biographies, catalogues, and books as well as curated exhibitions on Canadian and international artists, including painters Mary Pratt, Christopher Pratt, James Simon Mishibinijima, Alex Colville, Tom Forrestall, graphic novelists Seth, George Walker, and many others. He has worked in art galleries and museums across Canada and the United States among them the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Frick Pittsburgh, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. He has lectured at universities in Canada and the United States and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.