Thea Reid (Toronto, ON)
Networks No. 3, 2021. Tempra paint and coloured pencil on watercolour paper, 43" x 68".
Bio
Thea Reid is a Canadian artist whose work spans printmaking, drawing and sculpture. She received a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax (2013), NS and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI (2016).
Reid is an artist, curator and educator and has taught printmaking and drawing at Saginaw Valley State University, and Oakland Community College, and Detroit Community College. In 2019 she co-founded the White Brick Gallery in Ferndale Michigan, with Jessica Hayworth; a one year curatorial project featuring emerging and early career artists.
Reid has exhibited work across Canada and the US including the Art Gallery of Mississauga, the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Kaiser Gallery in Cleveland, and Neighbors Gallery in Ithaca. Her work is a meditation on perception and sensory experience; on moments where the transcendent and the everyday environment merge.