Leslie Smith III (born 1985 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a contemporary African American visual artist.

He obtained a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 2009.

Leslie Smith III is an oil painter best known for his abstractions painted on shaped canvases.

He engages in an expressionist-based practice, activating his canvases with bold color, gestural brushstrokes, and narratives that insinuate discord.

Inspired by personal narrative and day-to-day interpersonal relationships, his paintings concentrate on employing abstraction to communicate the poetics of the human experience.