Lionel Smit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lionel Smit

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1982

Place of Birth: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Profession: artist

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Lionel Smit (born 22 October 1982, Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African artist, known for his contemporary portraiture executed through large canvases and sculptures.Smit lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, but is also represented internationally in London.
His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London where it received the Viewer’s Choice Award, He received a Ministerial Award from the South African Department of Culture in 2013 for Visual Art.