stuart reid

STUART REID

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.

Reid’s work explores the beauty and tragedy of memory, dream, and the interconnecting and ruptured duality of our daily life and being.

Drawing – drawing from, drawing on, drawing into, drawing across – is the automatic writing at the core of his artmaking.

Stuart Reid is a Professor Emeritus at OCAD University, Toronto.

He is the great nephew of the eminent Canadian painter, muralist, architect, and educator George Agnew Reid. He is married to the artist and academic Dr. Doreen Balabanoff. His daughter is the artist and teacher Thea Reid. His son is the actor and musician Noah Reid.