CARY REEDER
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Education
2006-2013  Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
1994              Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
                      Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning
1991               Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
                      Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude  Major: Anthropology
1984              Miami Lakes Technical School, Miami, Florida
                      Certificate in Commercial and Advertising Art
 

Honors, Awards and Publications
2016  Artist INC Participant
2015  New American Paintings, Issue 120 (West Edition)
2014  Hunting Art Prize Finalist
2013  New American Paintings, Issue 108 (West Edition)
2013  Individual Artist Grant (Emerging), Houston Arts Alliance
 

Solo Exhibitions
2019  Startup Art Fair, Hotel ICON, Houston, TX
2018  I'm a Stranger Here, Mystic Lyon, Houston, TX
2018  Impermanence, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
2016  Limbs, Twigs and Digits, Optical Project, Houston, TX 
2013  Now, What Was There?, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 
2013  Toward Subsistence, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX (duo)
 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
TINT: A Perspective of Color, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
WOW: Winter on Winter, Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX

2018
Three Journeys: Betsy Evans, Cary Reeder and Alexandra Sivov, The Silos on Sawyer, Houston, TX
Artspace111 Fifth Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
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​Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, TX

2017
Trump This!, Art Car Museum, Houston, TX
​Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, TX

Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
 

2016
Sawyer Yards Revealed, The Silos on Sawyer, Houston, TX
Works from the Artists of Sawyer Yards, Silver Street Studios, Houston, TX
2016 ALH Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
Artspace111 Third Annual Regional Juried Exhibition
, Fort Worth, TX
Art on the Avenue, Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX
Playing House: Contested Connections, PLAYHouse, San Antonio, TX
Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
 

2015
ALH Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
Art on the Avenue, Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX
Texas National 2015, Sam Houston State University, Houston, TX
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2015, Houston, TX
Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
Here to GO, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Chroma, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
 

2014 
Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
Art on the Avenue, Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX

ALH INSTRUCTOR/show, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2014, Houston, TX
 

2013 
Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
30th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition, Houston, TX

Spring Introduction, Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, TX
 

2012
30th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX
Landscape/Bodyscape, Lone Star College-North Harris, Houston, TX.
The Big Show 2012, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Glassell School of Art Annual Benefit and Auction, Houston, TX
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2012, Houston, TX
 

2011
GAMBOL: Art League Houston's 2011 Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX
29th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX,
Finding Balance, Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX
2011 Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, TX
28th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition, Continental Center, Houston, TX
Texas National 2011, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
26th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
 

2010
28th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX
27th Visual Arts Alliance Open Juried Exhibition, Houston, TX
 

Teaching Experience
2014 to Present,  Art League Houston, Houston, TX
2014 to Present,  Glassell School of Art-MFAH, Houston, TX
 

Guest Lectures
2015 Looking at Art, Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX, February 3-4, 2015
2014  ECO Fund Award, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, Houston, TX, April 15, 2014
2013  “Now, What Was There?” Opening, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, August 23, 2013
2013  Looking at Art, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, September 10-11, 2013
2013  DWOW Pecha Kucha, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, June 13, 2013
2012  The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, August 2, 2012
 

Bibliography
Boyd, Robert. “Cary Reeder at Optical Project.” The Great God Pan Is Dead, Sept. 4, 2016.
Hatfield, Zack. “Home Simple Home,” Acrylic Artist, Spring 2016.
Feaster, Felicia. “High-Quality Work Defines Mint Gallery Group Show,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 15, 2015.
Anspon, Catherine. “Art City Rising,” PaperCity, December 2014.
Frenz, Lesley. “Behind the Hedges: Cary Reeder,” Artsy Forager.com, May 16, 2014
Caldwell, Ellen C. ”In the Studio: Process of a Painting with Cary Reeder.” New American Paintings Blog, April 17, 2014.
Anspon, Catherine. “The Besieged Bungalow,” PaperCity, September 28, 2013
Meeks, Flori. “Artist Makes Plea for Vanishing Bungalows,” Houston Chronicle, Sept. 3, 2013
Holley, Peter. “Sketches: Cary Reeder Goes Solo at Lawndale.” Houstonia.com, Aug. 21, 2013.
West, Allyn. “Painting Houses in the Heights,” Swamplot.com, August 20, 2013
Hajovsky, Martin. “Heights Artist Explores Disappearing History in “Now, What Was There?” Show,” Chron.com, August 19, 2013
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Lawndale Big Show Highlights!” Glasstire.com, July 13, 2012.
Boyd, Robert. “The Big Show 2012: Paintings.” The Great God Pan Is Dead, July 19, 2012.
Boyd, Robert. “Mary McCleary Selects.” The Great God Pan Is Dead, Dec. 17, 2011
 

Biographical Information
Born 1964 in Miami, Florida
Lives and works in Houston, Texas
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