Dylan Garrett Smith is an artist, illustrator, designer, and filmmaker whose work is a product of his views regarding humanity’s relationships with - and the continually growing distance from - the natural world. Combining concepts of occultism, ecology, and memento mori, Smith stresses the importance of the cycle of birth-bloom-decay and the necessity of solitude in nature. Ashes, chalk-lead and ink on black cotton rag paper serve as the primary media to make his images, while reinforcing the natural process of life, death, and rebirth.
In 2022, Smith created the production company, Slashtag Cinema, with friends Travis Bacon and Kyle Kouri where he serves as executive producer, writer, director, and production designer on a number of projects and is currently a professor of illustration at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA.
Smith earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, NY and currently lives and creates in Los Angeles, CA.
Dylan Garrett Smith Artist Resume
Lives & creates in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2010
Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, New York
B.F.A., Printmaking
Solo Exhibitions
2017
An Offering, The Convent, Philadelphia, PA
2016
What You Fear Will Come Upon You, Central Tattoo Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Birth, Bloom, Decay, Howl Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
The Quiet Dark, Rivet Gallery, Columbus, OH
Welcome Home, Alternative Gallery, Allentown, PA
Hollow Upon Hollow (collaborative works with Crystal Lee Lucas), Eskandalo, Bethlehem, PA
2012
V.I.T.R.I.O.L., Grindcore House, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibitions
2024
The Yawning Black Infinity, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Nocturnal Dysphoria, Dark Art Emporium, Long Beach, CA
Phantom Narrative IV, Carroll Community College, Baltimore, MD
Ventura Erotica Expo, Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA
2022
Ophelia, Crucible Art Gallery
Creature Feature, Left Hand Black, San Diego, CA
Now That’s What I Call Art About Music, Dark Art Emporium, Long Beach, CA
Inferno, The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA
Danse Macabre, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA
2021
Fiends of the Dark II, Wow X Wow
2020
Phantom Narrative II, Carroll Community College, Baltimore, MD
2019
After Dark, Ritual Cravt & All Sacred Tattoo, Denver, CO
Creature Feature, Left Hand Black, San Diego, CA
2018
From Ashes to Flame, Midnite Communion, Los Angeles, CA
All These Witches, Crucible Art Gallery
Phantom Narrative, Carroll Community College, Baltimore, MD
Horror Business 7, Left Hand Black, San Diego, CA
Pigs of a Different Color, Ryan Cronin Gallery, New Paltz, NY
Dusk Rituals, 448 N. 10th St., Philadelphia, PA
Print Riot II, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
Heart Show 10, Jinxed, Philadelphia, PA
Constellations, Gristle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Small Wonders 6, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Horror Business VI, Left Hand Black, San Diego, CA
Print Riot, Brick + Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
Dark Nature, Last Rites Gallery, Manhattan, NY
Incantations, Gristle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Patchwork, Mindzai Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Serendipity, Gristle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Be My Valentine IV, Rivet Gallery, Columbus, OH
2016
Psychedelic Blasphemy, Howl Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
End of the Year Celebration, The Convent, Philadelphia, PA
Return to Dirt, Midnite Collective, Long Beach, CA
Small Wonders 5, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Black Mass III, Eridanos Tattoo, Cambridge, MA
Living and Dark Undead, The Convent, Philadelphia, PA
Creature Feature, Left Hand Black, San Diego, CA
Rarities, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
The Devil's Reign, Eridanos Tattoo, Cambridge, MA
Mythical Beasts, Sideshow Gallery, Chicago, IL
Doom, The Shred Shed, Philadelphia, PA
The Devil's Reign, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Night, Tataway, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Brooklyn Biennial Submissional, Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
Devil's Reign, Howl Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
Halloween, Masthead Gallery/Phantom Hand, Philadelphia, PA
Dreams Were Made For Mortals, Saint Vitus, Brooklyn, NY
Horror Business 4, Left Hand Black, San Diego, CA
Libertine, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Untitled II, Howl Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
Illustrated Death, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Be My Valentine, Rivet Gallery, Columbus, OH
2014
Your Coffin or Mine, Art Machine, Philadelphia, PA
INFERNALE, Ritual Ritual, Philadelphia, PA
RAW:Brooklyn presents SCOPE, Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Brooklyn, NY
The Happening, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Sketchbook Show, Alternative Gallery, Allentown, PA
The Bees Knees, Alexi Era Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Creature Feature, Left Hand Black Tattoo, San Diego, CA
UltraMantis Black Record Release, LVAC, Allentown, PA
Friday the 13th, Sideshow Gallery, Chicago, IL
Untitled, Howl Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
Desiderata, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Bird and Snake Group Show, Howl Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
Lord of the Flies, Black Vulture Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Small Wonders, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Children of Yuletide, Grindcore House, Philadelphia, PA
Stendhal Syndrome, The Alternative Gallery, Allentown, PA
Monsters Among Us, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
The Midnight Society, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Horror Business, Left Hand Black Tattoo, San Diego, CA
Peripeteia II, Skylight Gallery, Manhattan, NY
The Happening, Skylight Gallery, Manhattan, NY
Return Me to the Sea, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Waves of Change, Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, Manhattan, NY
Oracle, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Endangered: Protect the Pack, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Metamorphosis, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Philias: Loved to Death, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
Till Death, Left Hand Black Tattoo, San Diego, CA
2012
Horror Business, Left Hand Black Tattoo, San Diego, CA
Countdown to (En)danger, B2, Philadelphia, PA
Empty Night Skies, Grindcore House, Philadelphia, PA
8 x 10 Art Show 2, Six Eleven Salon and Gallery, Ocean City, MD
Art for the Animals, Liquidambar Gallery, Pittsboro, NC
Damned If You Doom, Small Engine Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2011
Anti Sweden design competition winner, Oslo, Norway
Autumn Equinox, window display at Apotheca Salon, Bethlehem, PA
2010
The Living Dead, 516 Gallery, Allentown, PA
Everyone Has a Dark Side, Gallery Within.. Simon Silk Mill, Easton, PA
Altars of Extinction, Vintage Karma, Stroudsburg, PA
Dhegem, Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Red Show, Dreamland Tattoos, Stroudsburg, PA
2009
Get Decked, Main Street Jukebox, Stroudsburg, PA
Awards & Nominations
The Advanced Class, Honorable Mention (Comedy) at Indie Short Fest, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Won Best Short Film at Sinister Horror Film Festival, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Won Best Special Effects at Sinister Horror Film Festival, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Won Best Horror Short at LA Punk Film Festival, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Won Best Special Effects at Hex After Dark Film Festival, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Nominated Best Actor - Kyle Kouri at FilmQuest, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Nominated Best Ensemble Cast at FilmQuest, 2024
The Order, Won Bronze Shorty at Mahoning Drive In’s ‘Shorts in the Fall’, 2019
The Order, Nominated Best Editing at NJ Horror Con and Film Festival, 2019
Rookie of the Year, CCA, 2015
ANTI Design Competition Winner, 2010
VTB Design Competition Winner, 2009
Festival Selections
The Advanced Class, Official Selection at Idyllwild International Film Festival, 2024
The Advanced Class, Official Selection at Indie Short Fest, 2024
The Advanced Class, Official Selection at Big Apple Film Festival, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Official Selection at Sinister Horror Film Festival, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Official Selection at LA Punk Film Festival, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Official Selection at Hex After Dark Film Festival, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Official Selection at FilmQuest, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Official Selection at ScreamFest LA, 2024
The Order, Official Selection at Videoscream International Film Festival, 2020
The Order, Official Selection at Mahoning Drive In’s ‘Shorts in the Fall’, 2019
The Order, Official Selection at NJ Horror Con and Film Festival, 2019
Art Direction/Production Design
Infestation, Slashtag Cinema, 2025
Keep Coming Back, Slashtag Cinema, 2024
The New Torment, Contracult, 2022
Vaute Couture, A/W relaunch, 2019
The Order, Low Spirits, 2019
Rattling Cage, branding, merch, and album art, 2017
Blush, branding, merch, and album art, 2017
Album Art/Layout
Abnegation, “As Stone Strikes the Cedar… Pound the Nails”
ACxDC, “Satan is King”
ACxDC, “ACxDC/Pig City Split”
ACxDC, “G.O.A.T.”
Arsenic Addiction, “XIX”
As We Were, “Demo”
Bastard Thieves, “S/T”
Black Houses, “Demo”
Blackwater, “Weltgeist Corrupted”
Blush, “Wanderlust”
Blush, “Drone/Yesterday”
Burn in Hell, “Disavowal of the Creator God”
Burrow, “The Collapse of Time”
Cadabra Records, “Dracula”
Cadabra Records, “The Call of Cthulhu”
Cadabra Records, “The Blood Lotus”
Cadabra Records, “The Willows”
Cedar Sparks, “Maggie”
Cedar Sparks, “Blood in the River”
Cemetery Seance, “S/T”
Cemetery Seance, “Blood-Soaked Veils”
Chelsea Wyte, “The Sun” single
Contracult, “The New Torment”
Contracult, “The Glutton” single
Contracult, “Drown” single
Contracult, “Infirmary” single
Contracult, “Sacred Love” single
Darker Days, “Sydney” single
Darker Days, “S/T EP”
Die Choking, “Demo”
Dumpweed, “Vampires Exist” single
Eighteen Visions, “Inferno”
Eighteen Visions, “Purgatorio”
Enshrined, “Celestial Lineage” single
Facecutter, “Ingest” single
Facecutter, “Hideous Prize” single
Facecutter, “Die Slow”
Fad Nauseam, “Light Your Path”
Flood Peak, “Urnfield” single (photography)
Flood Peak, “Feral Wraiths” single (photography)
Flood Peak, “Fixed Ritual”
Folian, “Blue Mirror”
The Greek Favourites, “What Do You Know About the World Being Such a Coward?”
High Priest, “Grail Sludge” EP
High Priest, “Vile’s Vice”
Jughead’s Revenge, “Vultures” EP
Juracán, “Flying Again” single
Juracán, “En Casa” single
Juracán, “Psychotherapy” single
Juracán, “Jarineo”
Juracán, “Russian Puppet” single
KVØID, “Nihility”
LUCA, “The Vulture’s Flock Will Feast on Itself” single
LUCA, “In the Garden of Rotten Elms” single
LUCA, “And Drown in the Undertow” single
Mavradoxa, “Nightmarrow”
Mere Phantoms, “Famine for a Slow Death”
Midnite Collective/Midnite Congregation, “Verse IV: Return to Dirt”
Mire Lore, “Marrow Leech”
Myridian, “Babylon” single
Myridian, “Light in the Abyss”
Nerve, “Blood Sweat” single
Nerve, “Blind Obedience” single
Nerve, “Intellectual Experience”
Of Feather and Bone, “False Healer”
Of Feather and Bone, “Embrace the Wretched Flesh”
Ramprasad, “Tsuris”
Rat Lord, “S/T” EP
Rattling Cage, “Purge”
Spanaway, “Songs of Yesteryear”
Spanaway, “Demo”
Spanaway, “Wanderlust”
Tidemouth, “Velvet & Stone”
Vaulted, “Distaste”
Wake of Humanity, “Fight/Resist”
Wildspeaker, “Spreading Adder”
Wisteria, “Demo”
Yesod, “Divine Coma”
Print Publications
Castle Jackal Magazine Issue #8, 2024
Prattfolio, Fall 2024
Castle Jackal Magazine Issue #6, 2024
Castle Jackal Magazine Issue #5, 2024
The Aesthetics of Design in Fantasy, Myth, & Horror, BNN, 2023 (available here)
The Art of Darkness (available here)
Medicine for a Nightmare: Pt II (available here)
Medicine for a Nightmare: Pt I (available here)
Defiance: Anarchist Statements Before Judge and Jury, Detritus Books, 2019
Master Din’s Sinister Sextet Grim and Grave Admonitions for Mischievous and Overly Curious Children, 2019
Diabolical Divinations: The Book of Demonic Tarot, 2019
Rue Morgue Magazine #184 Sept/Oct 2018
Of Shadows & Dust, Input Error, 2018 (available here)
All of Them Witches, Howl Books, 2018 (available here)
All is Equal in the Eyes of Dirt, I Am Vertical, 2018
Flowersonnets by Angelo Colavita, Cover, 2018
Black and Green Review Number 5, Winter, 2018
Glamour Magazine Germany, April, 2017
Fangoria Magazine, March, 2017
Darkadya III, Darkadya Books, 2017
Psychedelic Blasphemy, Howl Books, 2016 (available here)
Slithers & Scales of Inspiration, OOS Books, 2016 (available here)
Living and Dark Undead, Seventh Church Ministries, 2016
Black & Grey Volume IV, Tattoo Mag Argentina, 2016
CREATE//RESIST, 2016 (available here)
The Devil's Reign, Howl Books, 2015 (available here)
Black and White: Volume One, OOS Books, 2014 (available here)
Sciences Occultes Magazine, Issue #4, 2014 (available here)
Excavate: Unearthing Artistic Skeletal Remains, 2014 (available here)
The Mammoth Book of Skulls, 2014 (available here)
Skull Style: Skulls in Contemporary Art and Culture, 2011 (available here)
N-Sphere Art Magazine, 2011
Film
Infestation, Slashtag Cinema, Producer/Production Designer, 2025
The Advanced Class, Slashtag Cinema, Producer, 2024
Keep Coming Back, Slashtag Cinema, Executive Producer/Writer/Art Director, 2024
Night Train, Art Director, 2023
Carry the Darkness, Graphic Design/Album Art, 2023
A Catch, Graphic Design, 2023
Season 1, Slashtag Cinema, Writer/Art Director/Director, 2022
The Order, Writer/Director, 2019
Book Trailers
American Rapture by CJ Leede, Tor Nightfire, 2024
Maeve Fly by CJ Leede, Tor Nightfire, 2023
Seed Ritual, November Sage, Director/videographer, 2019
Full Moon Spell Bath, November Sage, Director/videographer, 2019
Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within I, Juliet Diaz, Director/videographer, 2019
Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within II, Juliet Diaz, Director/videographer, 2019
All is Equal in the Eyes of Dirt, Director/art director, 2018
Seasons of the Witch: Samhain Oracle Deck, November Sage, Director, 2018
Television
My Cat From Hell, S10 E12: Philly’s Forgotten Cats
Music Videos
sKitz Kraven, “Vampire”, Actor
Contracult, “The Infirmary”, Assistant
Blush, “Weary”, Art direction
Old Wounds, “Only Your Enemies Leave Roses”, Lead actor
Audio
”Beau Ideal”, Folian, field recordings, 2021
KVØID, "NIHILITY", 2015
DYING, "A History of Nothing", 2012
Broken Hands - EP, 2008
Podcasts
Episode 181, Another Goddamn Horror Podcast, 2024
AWP EP79, Anyway…Whatever Podcast, 2021
My life is a dark room. One big dark room., Behind the Stage Podcast, 2021
Damned If Ya Don’t!, Enjoy the Void with Bobby Lloyd Podcast, 2021
Dylan Garrett Smith III, Adventures in Design Podcast, 2018
The Coffin, Adventures in Design Podcast, 2017
Dylan Garrett Smith II, Adventures in Design Podcast, 2017
Where the Shadow Meets the Light, Adventures in Design Podcast, 2016
The Ice King, 99 Percent Invisible, 2016 (concept contributor)
Copywriting
Canyon of the Crescent Moon, S/T, press release
Folian, “Ache Pillars”, press release
Ramprasad, "Ruinenlust", press release
Quiver & Quill, social media/web
Folian, "Blue Mirror", Anima Recordings
Bible Black Tyrant, "Regret Beyond Death", Anima Recordings
Blush, "Wanderlust", Anima Recordings
Rattling Cage, "Purge", Anima Recordings
Blush, "Drone/Yesterday", Anima Recordings
Press/Featured:
Shoutout LA • Beautiful Bizarre Magazine • Deathwish Inc. • Rue Morgue Magazine • Hello! Magazine • Glamour Magazine Germany • Fangoria Magazine • Adventures in Design Podcast • W Magazine • Anyway…Whatever Podcast • CvltNation.com • RevolverMag.com • Cvltartes.com • DearDarkling.com • Phillyvoice.com • ReneeRuin.com • BloodyDisgusting.com • StraightEdgeInterviews • Idioteq.com • BloodMilkJewels.com • NoEcho.net • DIYConspiracy.net • DarkArtandCraft.com • SeaShepherd.org • Plebeian • TheSludgelord.com • BlowTheScene.com • TheDiscerningBrute.com • GodlessNoise.com • Skull Appreciation Society • IWantYourSkull.com • TheStudio.com • SallyCentigrade.com • Bohemianizm.com • TheArtillerist.com • LehighValleyLive.com • GulfCoastTimes.com • LostAtEMinor.com • BeforeItsNews.com • Neyeni.net • Lemonade-Magazine.co.uk • IntroducingNext.com • Quintessential Zine • TheWorldsBestEver.com • StyleCaster.com
Clients:
The 69 Eyes • Abnegation • ACxDC • All Pigs Must Die • Altars of Grief • Ampwall • Angelo Colavita • Anima Recordings • Anthony Fantano • Anti Denim • Apotheca Salon • Ark Royal • Arsenic Addiction • As We Were • Baptosis • Baroness • Bastard Thieves • Beefrot • Befana • Black and Green Review • Black Cloud Co. • Black Houses • Black Widow Yoga • Blackwater • Blasphemeet • Blush • Blvck Flag Forge • Blxckmass Clothing • Brian Ewing • Brick + Mortar • Broken Hands • Burden Man • Burke & Hare • Burn in Hell • Burrow • Cadabra Records • Can I Die Yet? • Cannibal Corpse • Casket Raider • Cedar Sparks • Celeste • Cemetery Seance • Chelsea Wyte • CJ Leede • Clear Channel Outdoor Americas • Clear Channel Airports • Connecticut Green Burial Grounds • Coma VVitch • Contracult • Coven Market • Cultburner • CvltNation • Darker Days • Darksome Market • Deathtrap America • Deathwish Inc. • Detritus Books • Devoidov • Die Choking • Disobey • Dope Minds • Dreamfire • Dropkick Murphys • Dumpweed • Dying • Early Graves • Eighteen Visions • Elwood Quincy Walker • Empty Set Press • Enshrined • Enterprise Earth • Eric Raven • Executioner’s Mask • Facecutter • Fad Nauseam • Fifteen Counts of Arson • Fight Harm • Flood Peak • Folian • Fórn • Foxblood • Frank Iero • Fuming Mouth • The Funeral Pyre • Get To The Chopper • The Ghost Inside • Gimme Metal • Gimme Radio • Good Fight Entertainment • Goodie Two Sleeves • Gravmasterhash • The Greek Favourites • Hail Vegan • Hardcore Dropout • Harlan Ballogg • Heelhookvlt • Heretic Temple • High Priest • Hive • Hogan McLaughlin • Holy Grove • Homebase Skateshop • Hot Topic • I Am Vertical • iHeartMedia • Jake Something • Jessi Hardesty • Jordan Olds • Jughead’s Revenge • Juracán • Justin Burning • Keir Gilchrist/Atypical • Kids • Kings Road • Kitten Lady • Kvelertak • KVØID • La Muerta Clothing • Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations • Lesser Life • Lindsay Hearts • Loaded Sound Records • Lost Bear • Love Pain & Stitches • Low Spirits • LUCA • Magickal Folk • Malakai Black/Tommy End • Mar • Market of the Beast • Mastodon • Mavradoxa • Melotov Records • Mercy • Mere Phantoms • Midnite Collective • Mire Lore • Mo'ynoq • Mount Moriah Cemetery • Mrs. Angemi/IHeartAutopsy • Myridian • Myrkur • Name • Naked Cult • Nerve • Nightwork • Nobody Reads in LA • The Noctambulant • Nonsalem Witch • November Sage • Of Feather and Bone • Old Wounds • Ominous Hymn • The Onyx Lashes • Pallbearer Press • Panda Eyes • Phalanx • PureVile • Quiver & Quill • Ramprasad • Rat Lord • Rattling Cage • Rest Assured • Riparian • Saga Jiu Jitsu • The Satanic Chef • The Satanic Temple • Seaside Oddities Expo • Self-Deprecator • Seventh Church Ministries • Shadow Woods Metal Fest • Sharon Needles • Silent Season • Sinister Sisters • Slashtag Cinema • Slugdge • Sodom • Spanaway • Spirit Adrift • Strikethecamera/Nick Strike • Sucker Love • Sweet Doe Bakery • Tidemouth • Toile • Two Minutes to Late Night • T.O.M.B. • Vegan Treats Bakery • Vaulted • Vaute Couture • Voice Ov An Aeon • The Void • Wake of Humanity • Whelm • Wild Ridge Plants • Wild Zero • Wildspeaker • Wisteria • Woodstock Farm Sanctuary • Yesod
Shops:
Below Shop (CA) • CvltNation Bizarre • Deathwish Inc. • Die With Your Boots On (MA) • Divination Tattoo (NC) • Foxblood (CA) • Hollow Moon Tattoo (RI) • Hot Topic • Ritual Cravt (CO) • Witch City Wicks (MA)