EDUCATION
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
MA, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
BFA Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Merging Dimensions, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY
2022 Fractured Selves, One River Gallery, Evanston, IL
2018 Link Gallery, Champaign, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Webs of Significance: Center Award & Grant Winners, Turchin Center for the
Visual Arts, Boone, NC
International Juried Photography Exhibition, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
2024 COLLAGE / ASSEMBLAGE: Beautiful and Strange Fragmentation, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Green Space, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN
Black & White, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Exchanges: dialogs between poetry and art, Ruth Foster Gallery, Eau Claire, WI
EAE, August House, Chicago, IL
By Degrees, Chicago Sculpture International, Chicago, IL
We Are Tech, Tech Is Us, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, IL
Extra Credit, Artspace, Chicago, IL
2022 10th Annual International FL3TCH3R Exhibit, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
Out of Hand: Tradition Meets Tech, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
Young Bloods, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Parsing Charm Reconstructing Progress, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Black Art Creativity, Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL
2021 Locus IX, The Martin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ann Metzger National Biennial Exhibition, St. Louis, MO
Digital, Collage, Assemblage, Las Lagunas Gallery, CA
Catharsis, Play + Inspire Gallery, https://exhibit.teachingartistpodcast.com/
2020 Black Lives Matter Exhibition, Dragonfly Gallery, Chicago, IL
Locus III, The Martin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Life in Progress, Hairpin Art Center, Chicago, IL
2019 Emerging, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 ArtPrize, Spectrum Theatre, Grand Rapids, MI
Educator Micro-Residency Exhibition, Figure One Gallery, Champaign, IL
2013 Introspect, FIRE Art Studios and Gallery, Naperville, IL
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Me & Eve Award, CENTER, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Juror’s Choice Award, Black and White, Arc Gallery
Residency, University of Illinois Summer Micro-Residency, Champaign, IL
2022 Women’s Rights Award: 10th Annual International FL3TCH3R Exhibit, Reece Museum
Honorable Mention, Out of Hand: Tradition Meets Tech, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center
2019 Adobe, Adobe Campus Leader, Adobe Education Trainer
2018 Residency, University of Illinois Summer Micro-Residency, Champaign, IL
2016 Residency, University of Illinois Summer Micro-Residency, Champaign, IL
2013 Second Place Award, Introspect, A juried exhibition, FIRE Studios and Gallery, Naperville, IL
SPEAKING & PRESS
Daniel George, "REVIEW SANTA FE: ANNA REED: MERGING DIMENSIONS" Lenscratch, January 9,2025,https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-anna-reed-merging-dimensions/
“Merging Dimensions” Project Presentations, Review Santa Fe sponsored by CENTER, Santa Fe, NM, November 3, 2024
Kassandra Ellen, "THE CENTER AWARDS: ME&EVE GRANT: ANNA REED" Lenscratch, May 22,2024, https://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-meeve-grant-anna-reed/
Artist Presentation: Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, January 25, 2024
Fanni Somogyi, "Tactile Journeys: Young Blood at MAP and Spark at The Peale”BMore Art Magazine, August 26, 2022,https://bmoreart.com/2022/08/tactile-journeys-young-blood-at-map-and-spark-at-the-peale.html