Stuart Reid
Stuart Reid - Biography
Born in London Ontario Canada in 1953 and raised in the context of its artistic zenith in the 1960s and 70s, Reid studied painting, drawing, sculpture, glass, installation and architecture in the seventies and eighties with Canadian and international luminaries Joseph Beuys, Paterson Ewen, John Elderfield, Greg Curnoe, Lionel March, Charles Jencks, Richard Demarco, and Patrick Reyntiens. Reid has been deeply influenced by these teachers, by his travels, by directly seeing paintings, drawings, sculptures, frescoes, stained glass of contemporary and historical masters, by experiencing architecture’s embodied embrace and spatial wonder, as well as by the haunting songs of William Blake and Robbie Burns, Joni Mitchell and Patti Smith, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.
n 2015, award winning Canadian artist Stuart Reid won national acclaim for his extraordinary zones of immersion, a 7-foot high by 500-foot long richly worked glass wall for the Toronto Transit Commission and installed along the platform of the re-designed Union Station. This world-class art installation portrays the people who “ride the rocket” every day, and are derived from large-scale india-ink works on mylar.
Recent Exhibitions:
2022 GALLERY STRATFORD Stratford, Ontario
‘folds of dreams’ solo show (painting installation)
2022 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Montenegro, Podgorica
2020 NATIONAL GALLERY OF SKOPLJE North Macedonia
2019 RAJKO MAMUZIĆ GALLERY Novi Sad, Serbia
‘Flux Identity’ group show, curator Svetlana Mladenov: a touring exhibition
selected Canadian artists in conversation with artists from Western Balkans
2019 WHITE BRICK GALLERY Ferndale, Michigan
‘embodied’ solo show (drawings)
2019 GALLERY GEVIK Toronto, Ontario
‘radiance and wound’ solo show (drawings)
2016 DURHAM ART GALLERY Durham, Ontario
‘hacking time’ 3 -person show, curator Ilse Gassinger (drawings)
2016 GALLERY GEVIK Toronto, Ontario
‘beliefs’ solo show (glass)
2016 CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DU VITRAIL Chartes, France
‘Lumières du Monde’ group show, curator Wilhelm Peters (glass canvases)
2015 GALLERY GEVIK Toronto, Ontario
‘in transit’ solo show (drawings)
2007 CANADIAN CLAY & GLASS GALLERY Waterloo, Ontario
‘stumbling home from banff’ solo show (glass, poetry, audio) curator Virginia Eichorn
2005 MATERIAL MATTERS GALLERY Toronto, Ontario
‘torn curtain/tangled lines’ solo show (glass)
2004 GLYDE HALL, THE BANFF CENTRE Banff, Alberta
‘exiting – a requiem’ solo show (installation: drawing, sound, performance)
Artist Specialization: Reid’s work explores the beauty and tragedy of memory, dream, and the interconnecting and ruptured duality of our daily life and being. His trademark large-scale ink drawings in diptych and triptych form, as well as bold, semi-abstracted colour works on paper, highlight Reid's experimentation with portraiture, evoking the theme of a shared, common experience.
