1998-2000 Nederlandse School voor Onderwijsmanagement, Amsterdam.
Master in Educational Management.
1986-1988 University of Massachusetts, Art department, Amherst, MA, USA. MFA, Painting.
1982-1986 Amsterdam School of the Arts, Academie voor Beeldende Vorming. BFA, Drawing/Painting and Art History.

2019 ‘GRID, The Bigger Picture Show, NDSM Loods, Amsterdam, (S)
2017 ‘Marriage with the Sea’, Dag Vensters II, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, (S)
2014 ‘Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, (G)
2014 ‘Grid 2014, a brief selection’, International Photography Biennial, Amsterdam, (G)
2013 ‘The 9th’, Interactieve Video installation, Nieuw en Meer’s 25th Anniversary, Amsterdam, (S)
2013 ’25+25′, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, (G)
2011 ‘De drie Musketiers’, NO Gallery, Amsterdam, (G)
2010 ’44 Choices’, Basisburo, Amsterdam, (G)
2009 ‘That’s The Question’, Performance with Katja Vermeulen, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam
2008 ‘After Dark’, het Glazen Huis, Amsterdam, (S).
2007 ‘Domweg gelukkig’, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, (G).
2006 ‘Profs’, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, (G).
2005 ‘Twoday’, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, (G).
2004 ‘Oud & Nieuw Werk’, het Glazen Huis, Amsterdam, (S).
2002 SVB-bank, Amstelveen, (S)
2001 Summer Exhibition, Amsterdam Auctioneers Glerum, Amsterdam, (G).
2000 ‘Nieuwe aanwinsten’, UBKU, Utrecht, (G).
1999 ‘Alumni IV’, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, USA, (G).
1998 ‘Archipel 98’, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, (G).
1996 ‘Lak 50 jaar’, LAK Galerie, Leiden, (G).
1994 ‘Six Pack Lights’, De Zes Jaargetijden, ABC-complex, Hoorn, (G).
1993 De Twee Wezen, Enkhuizen, (S).
1993 ‘Parameter’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, (G).
1993 LAK Galerie, Leiden, (S).
1993 ‘Kaas’, de Zes Jaargetijden, Kaasfabriek Eyssen, Alkmaar, (G).
1991 ‘Oogbaden’, Studio Complex Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, (G).
1989 Kunstlerhaus, Speyer, BRD, (S).
1988 STUN Gallery, Amherst, MA, USA, (S).
1987 ‘Three Aliens’, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA, USA, (G)

2015-now  Parttime International Guide.
2005-2013 Director, Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, AHK.
1989-2013 Faculty, Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, AHK.
2007-2009 Advisor, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam.
2006-2008 Board member Committee onderbouw VO, resonance group Education through Art.
2002-2006 Chair Department BKV, Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, AHK.
2005         Juror Rietveld Prize (Fine Art), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
1994         Faculty, 1st Degree Art in Education AV, NFTA, AHK.
1996-2010 Visiting Professor, various Schools, Center of the Arts and Institutes, Amsterdam.
1993-1994 Initiator and Organizer Artists’ Initiative ‘de Zes Jaargetijden’.
1991-1996 Chair Association Niks-Minder, studio complex Nieuw en Meer.
1990-1992 Faculty, Art Department, d’Witte Lely, Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam.
1986-1988 Teaching Assistantship, University of Massachusetts, Art department, Amherst, MA, USA.

2019 GRID, Robert Smit
Catalog on GRID, The Bigger Picture Show. A multi disciplinary project around the presentation of 32 diptychs at NDSM Loods, Amsterdam from  June 13- June 16 2019.

2010 ‘Kunst Werkt’, mensen reageren op hedendaagse kunst with Marloes Waanders, Thieme Art.
Edited by Terry Barrett, the results of the ‘No Landscapes’ project were made into a publication: ‘Art Works: People Respond to Contemporary Art’. The book design was done by two graphic design students of the Rietveld Academy and presented at the Flemish Cultural Centre the Brakke Grond, in Amsterdam, accompanied by a small conference.

2010 ‘Pushing art to the Foreground’, On Air, issue 1, September 2010.
Interview with Robert Smit by Jaap Vinken. Published by Marijke Hoogenboom, professor of the Research Group Art Practice and Development of the AHK

2010 ‘Making art, form and meaning’, January 15, 2010, Terry Barrett, McGraw-Hill
The making of GRID (1997-2012) is discussed in Chapter 11 – Postmodern Approaches – Dissonance