Born 1963. Lives and works in Tallinn.

1986 - 1992 Tallinn Art Academy, department of painting

2008 Ole/Saadoja, Riga Art Space, Intro Gallery, Riga
2008 Questions, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn

2008 Plaisirs de l´imagination, Chateau de Tours, Tours, France (group exhibition)
2008 Border State, Guangžhou Fine Art Academy Museum, Guangžhou, China

       (group exhibition)
2007 The Anthem, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2007 Meeting, Artdepoo Gallery, Tallinn

2007 Political/Poetical, Curatorial Exhibition of the 14th Tallinn Print Triennial,
       Tallinn, (group exhibition)
2007 KoViKaVi – postblablu, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania (group exhibition)
2006 Attention Matches, Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
2006 The End, City Gallery, Tallinn (with Marko Mäetamm)

2006 Flowers of Evil, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn (group exhibition)
2006 KoViKaVi Conference, Viborg Kunsthalle, Viborg, Denmark (group exhibition)
2006 VI International Performance and Experimental Art Festival, Manege,

       St.Petersburg, Russia (group exhibition)
2006 Collected Crises I & II, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn (group exhibition)
2006 Two Close Ones, 4th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, Estonia

       (together with Marko Mäetamm) (group exhibition)
2006 Shiftscale, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn (with Marko Mäetamm)
       (group exhibition)
2005 Speed, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2005 Kaido Ole & Marko Mäetamm, Exhibition Hall of Estonian Art Museum

       in Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn

2005 Thrust, 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana (with Marko Mäetamm)
       (group exhibition)
2005 CDH – 2005, Central House of Artist, Moscow (group exhibition)
2005 Identities, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia (group exhibition)
2004 The Band, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn

2004 The New Ten: Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
       (group exhibition)
       Künstlerhaus, Viena (group exhibition)
       PMMK Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium (group exhibition)
       Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany (group exhibition)
2004 inExile, 13th Tallinn Print Triennial (with Marko Mäetamm), Tallinn (group exhibition)
2004 E.U.positive (with Marko Mäetamm), Akademie der Künste, Berlin (group exhibition)
2004 Dream Island (with Marko Mäetamm), Culture and Art Project NOASS,
       Riga (group exhibition)
2004 Like humans do, Riihimäki Art Museum, Finland (group exhibition)
2004 Salt of life, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (group exhibition)
2003 Design Jet 5000 (with Marko Mäetamm), Gallery Vivian Napp ,Tallinn
2003 La Biennale di Venezia, Marko und Kaido by John Smith (with Marko Mäetamm),

       Estonian participation  at the 50th Internationa Exhibition of Visual Arts of the

       Biennale di Venezia
2003 John Smith. Marko und Kaido (with Marko Mäetamm), Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn

2003 2nd Biennial in Painting, Väsby Konsthall, Sweden (group exhibition)
2003 Estonian Art, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius(group exhibition)
2002 John Smith in Rapla (with Marko Mäetamm), the City Library of Rapla, Estonia
2002 John Smith. The World of Gods (with Marko Mäetamm), the Gallery of Estonian
       Academy of Arts

2002 Closing the Distance, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk,
       Poland (group exhibition)
2001 City Gallery, Haapsalu, Estonia
2001 Basic, Rotermann Salt Storage Arts Centre, Tallinn

2001 British Young Art, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (with Marko Mäetamm) (group exhibition)
2001 Biennial in Painting, Väsby Konsthall, Sweden  (group exhibition)
2000 Retracing the Future, Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma, Finland  (group exhibition)
2000 Baltic Art, New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles (USA) (group exhibition)
2000 Grosse Kunst Ausstellung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany  (group exhibition)
1999 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

1998 Freedom of Choice, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (group exhibition)
1997 City Gallery, Haapsalu, Estonia
1996 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1995 Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
1994 Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
1994 Luum Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1994 Plaisiren Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (together with Aimar Kristerson)
1994 Tallinn Cinema House (from private collection of Mart Lepp)

1993 Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn
       (group exhibition)
1992 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2008    Open Space at Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2004     Annual prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2004     Tallinn City Prize of 13th Tallinn Print Triennial (with Marko Mäetamm)
1999     Annual prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
1999     Annual prize of Vaal Gallery
1998     Kristjan Raud annual award, Estonia
1996     Prize of Lithuanian Artists Association from the painting triennial in Vilnius