Artist talk: Macon Reed - January 22, 2020
Eulogy for the Dyke Bar. Macon Reed
Macon Reed
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
12:30–1:30pm EV 3.655
Macon Reed is an artist working in sculpture, installation, video, performance, radio documentary, painting, and participatory projects. Her work has been shown at venues such as Transmediale (Berlin), La Patinoire Royale (Brussels), Aarhus Art Museum (Denmark), Athens Museum of Queer Arts (Greece), PULSE NYC Special Projects, Wattis Center for Contemporary Arts, San Fransisco Museum of Craft and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Montclair Art Museum, Spring Break Art Fair, BRIC Media Arts, The Kitchen, Art F City FAGallery, the University of Southern Maine, Amherst College, Columbia University, and Bennington College.
Her work has received mention in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artnet News, CityTV: Santa Monica, The Guardian, Whitewall, Confederezione Nazionale, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, BK Reader, Art F City, Huffington Post, New City Art, and The Observer. Reed completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a University Fellow in 2013 and received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. Additionally, she studied at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Dah International School for Physical Theater and Voice in Belgrade, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and as a Research Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art+Technology. Reed is currently the 2019-2020 Starr Fellow at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.