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Education
2006-2013 Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1994 Florida State University, Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning
1991 Florida State University, Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, magna cum laude
1984 Miami Lakes Technical School, Certificate in Commercial and Advertising Art
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2016
Limbs, Twigs, and Digits, Optical Project, Houston, Texas
2013
Now, What Was There?, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
Toward Subsistence: Paintings by Rebecca Hamm and Cary Reeder, O'Kane Gallery,
University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Sawyer Yards Revealed, Honorable Mention, The Silos, Houston, Texas
Selected Works from the Artists of Sawyer Yards, Silver Street Studios, Houston, Texas
Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition and Auction, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas
2016 ALH Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Artspace111 Third Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas
Playing House: Contested Connections, PLAYhouse, San Antonio, Texas
2015
Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition and Auction, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas
2015 ALH Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Texas National 2015, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas
2015 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2015, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, North Carolina
Chroma, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Here to Go, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2014
Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition and Auction, Second Place, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas
27th Annual Dia de los Muertos Retablo Auction and Exhibition, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2014 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
2014 ALH INSTRUCTOR/show, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2014, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2013
2013 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
30th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Houston, Texas
Glassell School of Art Annual Benefit and Auction, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas
Houston Heights Association Candlelight Dinner & Auction, Houston, Texas
Spring Introduction: Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, Texas
2012
Visual Arts Alliance 30th Juried Membership Exhibition, Heritage Plaza, Houston, Texas
Landscape/Bodyscape, Lone Star College-North Harris Campus Gallery, Houston, Texas
The Big Show 2012, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
Annual Student Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas
Glassell School of Art Annual Benefit and Auction, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2012, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2011
26th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Texas National 2011, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
28th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
Annual Student Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas
Finding Balance, Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas
Environment: Selections from the Glassell School Painting Department, Houston, Texas
29th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Salon des Refusés, Gallery M Squared, Houston, Texas
GAMBOL: Art League Houston's 2011 Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, Texas
2010
28th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition
27th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition
SAO Select: Glassell Student/Alumni Organization Exhibition
Honors, Awards and Publications
2015 New American Paintings, Issue #120
2014 Second Place, Art on the Avenue Juried Show and Auction
2014 Hunting Art Prize Finalist
2013 New American Paintings, Issue #108
2013 Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance
2013 Honorable Mention, 30th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition
2010 Frank Freed Scholarship, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Teaching Experience
2014-Present Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
2014-Present Glassell School of Art-MFAH, Houston, Texas
Guest Lectures and Presentations
2015 Looking at Art, Winter Street Studios, February 3-4, 2015
2014 ECO Fund Grant, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, April 15, 2014
2013 DWOW Pecha Kucha, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, June 13, 2013
2013 “Now, What Was There?”, Lawndale Art Center, August 23, 2013
2013 Looking at Art, Lawndale Art Center, September 10-11, 2013
2012 The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas, August 2, 2012
Bibliography
Boyd, Robert, "Cary Reeder at Optical Project." The Great God Pan Is Dead, September 3, 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, September 3, 2013
Holley, Peter. "Sketches: Cary Reeder Goes Solo at Lawndale." Houstonia.com, August 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
Arts Organizations
2009-2011 WIVLA – Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, Board Member, Membership Chair
2014 WIVLA, Advisory Board
Gallery Affiliation
2012-2015 Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, Texas
Biographical Information
Born 1964 in Miami, Florida
Lives and works in Houston, Texas
Education
2006-2013 Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1994 Florida State University, Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning
1991 Florida State University, Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, magna cum laude
1984 Miami Lakes Technical School, Certificate in Commercial and Advertising Art
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2016
Limbs, Twigs, and Digits, Optical Project, Houston, Texas
2013
Now, What Was There?, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
Toward Subsistence: Paintings by Rebecca Hamm and Cary Reeder, O'Kane Gallery,
University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Sawyer Yards Revealed, Honorable Mention, The Silos, Houston, Texas
Selected Works from the Artists of Sawyer Yards, Silver Street Studios, Houston, Texas
Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition and Auction, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas
2016 ALH Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Artspace111 Third Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas
Playing House: Contested Connections, PLAYhouse, San Antonio, Texas
2015
Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition and Auction, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas
2015 ALH Instructor Show, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Texas National 2015, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas
2015 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2015, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, North Carolina
Chroma, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Here to Go, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2014
Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition and Auction, Second Place, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas
27th Annual Dia de los Muertos Retablo Auction and Exhibition, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2014 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
2014 ALH INSTRUCTOR/show, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2014, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2013
2013 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
30th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Houston, Texas
Glassell School of Art Annual Benefit and Auction, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas
Houston Heights Association Candlelight Dinner & Auction, Houston, Texas
Spring Introduction: Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, Texas
2012
Visual Arts Alliance 30th Juried Membership Exhibition, Heritage Plaza, Houston, Texas
Landscape/Bodyscape, Lone Star College-North Harris Campus Gallery, Houston, Texas
The Big Show 2012, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
Annual Student Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas
Glassell School of Art Annual Benefit and Auction, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2012, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2011
26th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Texas National 2011, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
28th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
Annual Student Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas
Finding Balance, Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas
Environment: Selections from the Glassell School Painting Department, Houston, Texas
29th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Salon des Refusés, Gallery M Squared, Houston, Texas
GAMBOL: Art League Houston's 2011 Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, Texas
2010
28th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition
27th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition
SAO Select: Glassell Student/Alumni Organization Exhibition
Honors, Awards and Publications
2015 New American Paintings, Issue #120
2014 Second Place, Art on the Avenue Juried Show and Auction
2014 Hunting Art Prize Finalist
2013 New American Paintings, Issue #108
2013 Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance
2013 Honorable Mention, 30th Visual Arts Alliance Juried Open Exhibition
2010 Frank Freed Scholarship, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Teaching Experience
2014-Present Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
2014-Present Glassell School of Art-MFAH, Houston, Texas
Guest Lectures and Presentations
2015 Looking at Art, Winter Street Studios, February 3-4, 2015
2014 ECO Fund Grant, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, April 15, 2014
2013 DWOW Pecha Kucha, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, June 13, 2013
2013 “Now, What Was There?”, Lawndale Art Center, August 23, 2013
2013 Looking at Art, Lawndale Art Center, September 10-11, 2013
2012 The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas, August 2, 2012
Bibliography
Boyd, Robert, "Cary Reeder at Optical Project." The Great God Pan Is Dead, September 3, 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, September 3, 2013
Holley, Peter. "Sketches: Cary Reeder Goes Solo at Lawndale." Houstonia.com, August 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
Arts Organizations
2009-2011 WIVLA – Women in the Visual and Literary Arts, Board Member, Membership Chair
2014 WIVLA, Advisory Board
Gallery Affiliation
2012-2015 Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, Texas
Biographical Information
Born 1964 in Miami, Florida
Lives and works in Houston, Texas