Ed Smith is a Guggenheim Fellow in Sculpture and Drawing. His work is represented in public and private collections in the United States and abroad. These include The British Museum, Yale University and many more. He has over 30 one person exhibitions and innumerable group exhibitions which include, the Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Hillwood Art Museum, Caversham Press South Africa, Fleming Museum, Schenectady Museum, The Albright Knox Museum, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum and many others. His work has been written about and reviewed in the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, The Baltimore Evening Sun, Art News, The Miami Herald, Times Union, Giornale Dell'Arte, San Francisco Examiner, Art New England and many others.

He has been a Visiting Artist, Lecturer, Artist-in-Residence, Professor and Distinguished Visiting Artist at American University, Bennington College, Bard College, Brandies University, Boston University, Kansas State University, Dartmouth College, Swathmore College, University of New Hampshire, Chautauqua Institution School of the Arts, Clark University, Dia Art Center, Trumbull College, Yale University, Lacoste School of the Arts in France, Parsons School of Art, S.V.A., University of Pennsylvania, New York Studio School, Vermont Studio Center, and many, many others

Awards and honors include, Awards for Teaching Excellence, National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts, Ford Foundation Grants, First Alternate Prix de Rome, Fulbright Award, Associate Fellow Trumbull College, Yale University, NY State Council on the Arts and others