[1] In 2005,[citation needed] Smilde graduated with a master's degree in fine art from the Frank Mohr Institute of Hanze University in Groningen.
[1][2] Smilde's best known works include the series Conditioner; sculptures that spread an antiseptic scent throughout several rooms,[3] and Unflattened, which shows an inverted rainbow.
[5] In 2012 he created a series of self-made clouds, of which Nimbus II, 2012, first performed in the Lady Chapel of Hoorn, was included in London's Saatchi Gallery.
[7][8] In a collaboration with the photographer Simon Procter Smilde signature manufactured cloudscapes with fashion luminaries Karl Lagerfeld, Dolce & Gabbana, Donatella Versace and Alber Elbaz.
The pictures appeared in feature in the September 2013 issue "ICONOCLOUDS" of Harper's Bazaar U.S. [9][10] Smilde won a stipend from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts.