Commissions, Awards, and Grants

2024
  • "Still Life Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Award, cash prize, Nova Scotia, Internet
  • "Portrait" Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Award, Nova Scotia, cash prize, internet
  • "Landscape Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Award, Nova Scotia, cash prize, internet
  • "Faces and Features", 4% Gallery, Award Certificate, San Francisco, internet
  • "Still Life", Teravarna Gallery, Honorable Mention Award, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Living and Breathing", 4% Gallery, Award Certificate, San Francisco, internet
  • "Water", Teravarna Gallery, Honorable Mention Award, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Unreal & Non-representational", Gallery 4%, Laurel Award, San Francisco, internet
  • "Animal Painting"Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Award, Nova Scotia, certificate award, internet
  • "Landscape Painting" Teravarna Gallery, Honorable Mention Award, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Anything & Everything", 4% Gallery, Distinction Award Certificate, San Francisco, internet
  • "Abstract", Global Painting Conclave, Certificate Award, Nova Scotia, internet
  • "Figurative Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Cash Award, Nova Scotia, Internet
  • "Scenes and Places", 4% Gallery,Distinction Award Certificate, San Francisco, internet
  • "Still & Lifeless", 4% Gallery, Distinction Award Certificate, San Francisco, internet
  • "Portrait", Teravarna Gallery, Talent cash prize, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Water", Teravarna Gallery, certificate award, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "London International Creative Competition", winner
  • "Earth", National Photographic Society, Honorable Mention, Los Angeles, internet
  • "Portrait Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Certificate Award, Nova Scotia, internet
  • "Figurative", Teravarna Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Open", Teravarna Art Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Animal", Global Painting Conclave, Certificate Award, Internet, Nova Scotia
  • "Figurative, Global Painting Conclave, Silver Award, Internet, Nova Scotia
  • "Portrait", Teravarna Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet, Los Angeles

2023
  • "6th Animal Art Exhibition, Art Show International Gallery, Honorable Mention, Los Angeles and internet.
  • "Abstract Painting", Finalists Award, Global Conclave, Nova Scotia, Canada, internet
  • "Fifth Figurative", Art Show Interantional Gallery, Honorable Menton, Los Angeles and internet
  • "6th Portrait", Teravarna Art Gallery, cash Talent Prize Award, Los Angeles
  • "Floral Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Award, cash prize, internet
  • "Water Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Award, cash prize, internet
  • "7th Landscape", Honorable Mention Award, Teravarna Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and internet
  • "Open Painting, Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Award, cash prize, internet
  • "Totally Awesome '80s Show", Station Gallery, Whitby, ON
  • "Color Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Certificate Award, Internet
  • "6th Flower", Teravarna Gallery, Talent cash prize, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Textures and Patterns", Art Room Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet
  • "Waters", Grey Cube Gallery, Merit Award, internet
  • "Artist Choice", Art Room Gallery, Merit Award, Internet
  • "Landscape Painting", Global Painting Conclave, bronze cash award, Internet
  • "Figurative", Teravarna Gallery, talent cash prize and honorable mention for two works, Los Angeles, Internet
  • "Still Life", Grey Cube Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet
  • "Blue", Art Room Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet
  • "Abstract Painting", Global Painting Conclave, bronze cash award, Internet
  • "Figurative Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Certificate Award, Internet
  • "Abstract", Teravarna Art Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Floral Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Bronze Award, internet
  • "Landscape", Teravarna Art Gallery, Honorable Mention, Los Angeles, Internet
  • "Faces and Features", Gallery 4%, Distinction, San Francisco, Internet
  • "Water Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Silver cash prize award, Nova Scotia, Internet
  • "Living and Breathing Animal, Gallery 4%, Distinction, San Francisco, Internet
  • "Animal", Teravarna Art Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet
  • "Open", Global Painting Conclave, Certificate Award, Nova Scotia, Internet
  • "Portrait",Teravarna Art Gallery, cash Talent Prize, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Floral", Teravarna Art Gallery, cash Talent Award, internet, Los Angeles
  • "Artist Grant Award" (showing), Teravarna Art Gallery, Special Mention Award, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Scenes & Places", Gallery 4 %, Distinction, San Francisco, Internet
  • "Figurative", Teravarna Art Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet, Los Angeles
  • "Open", Teravarna Art Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet, Los Angeles
2022
  • "Portrait Art Show", Grey Cube Gallery, "Rubins at AGO", 3rd place, Internet
  • "3rd Figurative", Art Show International Gallery, cash Merit Prize Award, Los Angeles, internet
  • "3rd Still Life", Art Show International Gallery, Honorable Mention, California, Georgian, Arizona, Ontario, Bavaria, Lima, Maharashta, Telagana, Illinois, Utrecht, Internet.
  • "Animals", Grey Cube Gallery, Merit Award, L.A., Internet.
  • "Yellow", Contemporary Art Room Gallery, Merit Award, Internet
  • "Skies", Grey Cube Gallery, Honorable Mention, L.A., internet
  • "Portrait", Contemporary Art Room Gallery, Merit Award, Internet
  • "4th Animal", Art Show International, Talent Prize, internet
  • "PRESS", First Place Award, Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
  • "2nd Water", Honorable Mention, Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles
  • "Circle Foundation for the Arts" monthly show June, Excellence Award, Paris, France
  • "Open", Honorable Mention, Art Show International, internet, Los Angeles, Maharashta, India
  • "Still Life" Honorable Mention, Internet, Los Angeles, Maharashta, India
  • "Photography and Painting", Art Room Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet
  • "Nature Painting" Global Painting Conclave, bronze, cash prize, internet
  • "Skies", Fusion Art, Third Place Award, Internet & Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • "6th Landscape", Art Show International, Honorable Mention, Los Angeles
  • "Animal Painting", Global Painting Conclave, Finalist Award,, Internet, Nova Scotia
2021
  • "Skys", Grey Cube Gallery, Honorable Mention, Internet
  • "Portrait", Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery, Merit Award, Internet
  • "Summertime Memories", 3rd place award, Kefi Art Gallery, internet, Toronto
  • "City", Contemporary Art Room Online Gallery, Merit Award, Internet
  • "Circle Quarteryly Art Review", Circle Foundation for the Arts, certificate of artistic excellence, Internet, France.
  • "Botanicals", Grey Cube Gallery, Merit Award, Internet
  • "Landscapes", Grey Cube Gallery, 2nd place, internet
  • "Animals", Art Room Gallery, Merit Award, internet
2020
  • London International Creative Competition, https://licc.uk, Honorable Mention, England
2019
  • London International Creative Competition, https://licc.uk, Honorable Mention, England
2018
  • Bus Rapid Transit Station art glass, 16th Avenue (the Trans Canada Highway #1) and Center street North, west bound; Calgary, Alberta
2017
  • Online Catalog of Professional Artists, Featured Artist.
    https://www.online-catalog-of-professional-artists.com/artist-barrysmylie.html
2012
  • Popular Website Awards, #1 Popular site in segment, based on feedback collected from a large sample of users. http://popularwebsiteawards.com
2011
  • Digital participation medallion, PX3, Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2010
  • Non objective, conceptual commission to design an imaginary gem case print for Billy Blob's imaginary music CD not recorded with his "If I Had a Band"
2009
  • "Featured Artist", P.A.N., ning network, internet, Budhapest, spring
  • "Featured Artist", P.A.N., ning network, internet, Budhapest, fall
2005
  • Web gallery, Paul Kovanen Watercolours.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities for a Presentation of Reunited Artist's Iliad, Dahesh Museum, 580 Park Avenue, New York, Novermber 13 2pm - 4pm. In association with the exhibition: The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris October 11, 2005 - January 22, 2006
2003
  • First National Health, portraits for the annual report.
  • Web gallery, Paul Kovanen web site.
2002
  • First National Health, portraits for the annual report.
  • National Archives of Canada, Joan Murray Collection
2001
  • "Iliad", featured website at Sputnik, internet
  • Word Web Award of Excellence, Art Space 2000
2000
  • Tripod "Super Site" award
  • Fierce Site Award
  • Jim Andrew's "Rude Little Song".
  • Flash programmer, Barlow Group.
1999 Web designs
  • artist writer, Judy Bourke
  • artist, Nidia Paloma
  • writer, Simona Mastocinque
  • writer, Mario Lunetta
  • writer, Paulo Levi
  • writer, Piero Sanavio
  • artist, Jeff Wietor
  • writer, George Stepanenko
  • writer, Robin Baker
  • writer, Rob Dempster
  • artist, Avi Rosen
  • poet, Irving Weis
  • artist, Tony Saunders
  • photographer, Rick Doble
  • musician, Tommasso Vittorini
  • artist, Sharri LaPierre

Web Gallery Design

  • Evelyn Klein
  • Judity Juntura Miller
  • Jessie Nebraska Gifford
  • Sherry Smith Bell
  • Martha Jane Bradford
  • Marjorie Tomchuk
1998
  • design web based advertisement, T.W. Graphics Group

Web designs

  • artist, Robert Carroll
  • artist, Dorthy Simpson Krause
  • writer/critic, Nora S. Steinberg
  • writer/artist, Sue Anne Bottomley
  • writer/artist, Mick Mather

Web Gallery Designs

  • Martha Bradford
  • Frederick Nichols
  • Marjorie Tomchuk
  • Alicai Candiani
  • Odila Loulou
  • Lise Drost
  • Francoise Lavoie
  • Loretta Kramer
  • Rae Mahaffey
  • Evelyn Klein
  • Sherry Smith Bell
  • G & C Kuhl
  • E. Rembaum
  • Sylvia Walters
  • Jean Burg
  • Barbara Elam
  • Lise Drost
  • Andrew Grabar
  • Anne Silber
  • Bill N. Thompson
  • Dan Weldon
  • Lynne Allen
  • Robert W. Brown
  • Judith J. Miller
1997
  • design and maintain a web site for the American Print Alliance
  • design a web site for the North West Printmaker's Council
1996
  • a display case of lithography implements with an unsigned edition of three prints for the exhibition "Canadian Printmaking: 1920-1940", The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
1995
  • selection committee, The Visual Arts Centre, Bowmanville ON
  • Honorable Mention, "Winter's Harvest", Eleventh Annual Juried Exhibition of Crafts, The Visual Arts Centre, Bowmanville ON
1994
  • unlimited edition original offset lithograph for Contemporary Impressions (journal of the American Print Alliance), Washington D.C., spring
1992
  • commission for limited edition lithograph and tee shirt design, Friends of Frenchman's Bay, Pickering ON
  • Best in the Show Award, juried exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa ON
1990
  • Technical Merit Award, Lindsay Gallery, Lindsay ON
1989
  • Alberta Art Foundation Touring Exhibition Grant
1988
  • Ontario Materials Assistance Grant
1970
  • La Sauve Garde grant and exhibition award, Montreal PQ
1968-71
  • yearly Alberta Government Scholarship Grants