Represented artist

Scott Reeder was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1970. He is a multidisciplinary artist who uses deadpan humor and cultural critique to expose the absurdity of life. His newest series, IMAGE Paintings, draws from the traditions of still-life painting to project emotional affect and social relationships onto inanimate objects such as bread and butter, which he paints in brightly colored, cartoon-like settings. In his ongoing output of glazed, ceramic sculpture,”Kuddelmuddel”, Reeder presents an indexical array of ordinary and maligned objects, facsimiles from daily life that draw attention to consumer habits, desires and vices and are presented together without distinction. Reeder first became known for his text-based paintings and parodies of process painting, as well as for his feature-length improvised sci-fi film titled Moon Dust and his possibly ironic art fairs (The Milwaukee International and Dark Fair).

Reeder is based in Chicago, Illinois where he is an Associate Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1998, Reeder has participated in solo and group shows in collaboration with prominent venues such as: The Venice Biennale (Utopia Station, 2013), Venice; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; New York Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; PACE Gallery; Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, among others. His film Moon Dust was screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati; Cinemarfa Film Festival, Marfa; Strangelove Film Festival, London, UK; and Anthology Film Archives, New York. A book on Reeder's work titled Ideas (cont.) was published by Mousse in 2019. His work is included in the collections of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, North Carolina Museum of Art, and The Kadist Foundation.