Collections:

USA Embassy, Johannesburg,South Africa.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD, USA.

Chase Manhattan Bank, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY, USA.

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH,USA.

Durban Museum and Art Gallery, South Africa.

Gertrude Posel Collection, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Johannesburg Art Museum, South Africa.

Johannesburg Chamber of Industries,South Africa.

Johns Hopkins University Collection,South Africa.

Mobil Corporation,South Africa.

National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town,South Africa.

Premier Milling Group, Johannesburg,South Africa.

Pretoria Art Museum,South Africa.

University of the Orange Free State,South Africa.

University of South Africa,South Africa.

University of Stellenbosch,South Africa.

University of the Western Cape,South Africa.

Awards and Residencies:

2014 Nominated for Anonymous as A Woman.

2014 Residency, SACI - Studio Art Centers International Florence, Florence, Italy

2012 The Trawick "Best of the Best" "Sapphire" Award

2008 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Painting).

2007 The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards - “Best in Show”

2007 Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, France.

2007 Strictly Painting Award - McLean Project For The Arts

2004 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Painting).

2003 Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, France.

2003 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

2000 Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, France.

1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

1996 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

1996 Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont.

1995 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Painting).

1994 Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont.

1992 Maryland Institute College of Art, Trustees Teaching Award.

1991 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Painting).

1989 Triangle Artist’s Workshop, Pine Plains, New York.

1975 Cambridge Shirt Award, Art South Africa Today.

1975 Abel Coetzee Award, Johannesburg College of Art.

Lectures:

2015 Jo Smail on Pietro Perugino, Contribution to Blog, www.paintersonpaintings.com ​

2011 Jo Smail, Post Baccalaureate, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2009 MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series Fall

2009, MICA 2009 Spring Arts Colloquia "Abstraction(s)" Series, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC

2008 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD.

2003 "Art and Autobiography", Shimuzu, Japan