SENGHOR REID
Senghor Reid (b. 1976) explores the interactions between the human body and the environment, creating visual representations of dreams, memories and traces of human contact with nature. Reid earned a BFA from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI); a Masters of Teaching in Art Education from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) and attended the internationally recognized Marathon Program at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (NY, NY).
He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Cranbrook Schools (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and is a National Board Certified Visual Arts Educator. He has received many awards including the Kresge Foundation’s, Kresge Arts in Detroit Visual Artist Fellowship prize and the prestigious Governor’s Award for Emerging Artist (Michigan). Reid’s work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad in galleries and museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art – Detroit in Michigan, Kentler International Drawing Space in New York, St. Catharine Museum in Canada and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. His work is in private, public and corporate art collections.
Exhibitions
Selected CV
Senghor Reid: Make Way For Tomorrow Documentary released on PBS
2023
Work selected for the Bagley Mobility Hub Public Art Project at Michigan Central
2022
Paintings featured in the Watershed exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
2022
Shadowboxing, solo exhibition, M Contemporary Art
2021
Distilled, solo exhibition, M Contemporary Art
2019
Kresge Visual Arts Fellow
2009
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