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.
CONTACT
CURRICULUM VITAE
EXHIBITIONS
2023 CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Zrenjanin, Serbia
‘Within Constraints’, solo show (drawings/video), curator Svetlana Mladenov
2022 GALLERY STRATFORD Stratford, Ontario
‘folds of dreams’ solo show (painting/installation), curator Angela Brayham
2022 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Montenegro, Podgorica
2020 NATIONAL GALLERY OF SKOPLJE North Macedonia
2019 RAJKO MAMUZIĆ GALLERY Novi Sad, Serbia
‘Flux Identity’ group show, curator Svetlana Mladenov: a touring exhibition
selected Canadian artists in conversation with artists from Western Balkans
2019 WHITE BRICK GALLERY Ferndale, Michigan
‘embodied’ solo show (drawings)
2019 GALLERY GEVIK Toronto, Ontario
‘radiance and wound’ solo show (drawings)
2016 DURHAM ART GALLERY Durham, Ontario
‘hacking time’ 3 -person show, curator Ilse Gassinger (drawings)
2016 GALLERY GEVIK Toronto, Ontario
‘beliefs’ solo show (glass)
2016 CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DU VITRAIL Chartes, France
‘Lumières du Monde’ group show, curator Wilhelm Peters (glass canvases)
2015 GALLERY GEVIK Toronto, Ontario
‘in transit’ solo show (drawings)
2007 CANADIAN CLAY & GLASS GALLERY Waterloo, Ontario
‘stumbling home from banff’ solo show (glass, poetry, audio) curator Virginia Eichorn
2005 MATERIAL MATTERS GALLERY Toronto, Ontario
‘torn curtain/tangled lines’ solo show (glass)
2004 GLYDE HALL, THE BANFF CENTRE Banff, Alberta
‘exiting – a requiem’ solo show (installation: drawing, sound, performance)
2003 ANTIGUO MONASTERIO DE SANTA MARIA Valldigna, Spain
‘El Arte de las Vidrieras’ group show (glass)
2001 AUGSBURG CATHEDRAL Augsburg, Germany
‘The Coloured Light’ group show (glass)
1998 LIVING ARTS CENTRE GALLERY Mississauga, Ontario
‘dance of Venus’ solo show (cut paper collages)
1998
CANADIAN CLAY & GLASS GALLERY Waterloo, Ontario
SATTLER GALLERY Lunenberg, Nova Scotia
‘Six Voix/Six Voices: Contemporary Canadian Glass’ curators S. Reid & D. Balabanoff
1997 CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DU VITRAIL Chartes, France
‘Six Voix/Six Voices Contemporary Canadian Glass’ curators S. Reid & D. Balabanoff
1994 ROYCE HOUSE Toronto, Ontario
‘Bleak of Winter, Passion of Spring’ solo show (drawings, paintings)
1988 LONDON REGIONAL ART GALLERY London, Ontario
‘Thunder and Lightning: Canadian Glass’ group show (glass) curator Ted Goodden
1981 ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON Hamilton, Ontario
‘Fresh Steps in Glass’ group show
1981 TORONTO CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
‘Essence’ 3-person show (glass, paintings) curator Kazimir Glaz
1979 HABOURFRONT GALLERY Toronto, Ontario
‘New Canadian Glass’ group show (glass) curator Anita Ehrens
1979 FOREST CITY GALLERY London, Ontario
‘Stuart Reid’ solo show (drawings)
1978 LONDON REGIONAL ART GALLERY London, Ontario
‘Annual Juried Exhibition’ (painting)
1977 OISE GALLERY Toronto, Ontario
‘Images and Constructions’ solo show (drawings and glass)
WORK IN PUBLIC PLACES
2017 MARY LAKE AUGUSTINIAN MONASTERY King City, Ontario
‘Stations of the Cross’
15 Stations: @4’ x 7’ – spread across a one-acre circular pilgrimage pathway
silver stained, enameled, engraved and laminated glass
2015 UNION STATION Toronto Transit Commission Toronto, Ontario
‘zones of immersion’ winner international competition
subway platform glass art wall: 7’ x 500’ translucent/transparent glass mural
2006 BLOORVIEW KIDS REHAB Toronto, Ontario
‘to walk these halls’
4 storey breezeway, each floor 4’ x 50’ x 1’ glass louvers/light projection/poetry
‘to make this voyage’
exterior glass canopy 8.5’ x 30’ silver stained and laminated glass w/ engineered standoffs
2003 INTERCONTINENTAL, TORONTO CENTRE Toronto, Ontario
‘Urban Ribbon’
Reception area glass art wall, 9’ x 20’’ translucent, enameled glass
‘Liquid Veil’
bar/restaurant glass art wall, 10’ x 18’ etched mouthblown glass
2001 SALZBURG KONGRESS Salzburg, Austria
‘Homage to Mozart’
winner international competition
3-storey glass artwork, 20’x40’ enameled, curved glass w/ engineered standoffs
1998 LIVING ARTS CENTRE Mississauga, Ontario
‘dance of Venus’
winner international competition
30’ x 150’ architectural glass artwork, etched, enameled, mouthblown glass
1997 ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL Toronto, Ontario
‘The Calling of St. James’
dedicated by Queen Elizabeth II June 29, 1997
11’ x 24’ stained glass window
1991 CITY OF LONDON London, Ontario
‘People and the City’
winner national competition
13’x 33’ x 7’ civic monument /sculpture, water jet cut bronze (w/ D. Balabanoff)
1985 BYRON UNITED CHURCH London, Ontario
‘Light Shafts’
2’ x 12’ each, twelve sanctuary windows
1983 VICTORIA HOSPITAL London, Ontario
‘Hope and Healing’
6’ x 6’ each, two windows
1977 NORTHERN LIFE ASSURANCE London, Ontario
‘Hudson Bay Triptych’
11’ x 25’ x 3’ glass, slate, steel, soft pastel on linen drawing
(now in collection of Lakehead University)
INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES
2005 International Artists Residency Golyazi, Bursa, Turkey
2004 Informal Architectures International Residency Banff Centre, Alberta
AWARDS
2012 Price Award for Teaching Excellence OCAD University
2001 Senior Canada Council Award
EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY S. REID
1998 Six Voix/Six Voices: Contemporary Canadian Glass
CANADIAN CLAY & GLASS GALLERY Waterloo, Ontario
1997 Six Voix/Six Voices: Contemporary Canadian Glass
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DU VITRAIL Chartes, France
1980 Personal Image for Social Space a national competition and mailed exhibition
TRACE MAGAZINE (co-developed w/ D. Balabanoff and D. Pearl)
Jurors: France Morin, John C. Parkin, Greg Curnoe
AUTHOR/EDITOR (S. REID)
2016 Presence and Drawing: Drawing in and drawing out.
Drawing and Human Presence: Tracey Journal. University of Loughborough, U.K.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/microsites/sota/tracey/journal/pres2.html
2001 Small Wonders (Review) Ontario Craft Magazine
1989 On the Re-emerging Significance of Imagery Guest Editor, Leadline Magazine, Toronto
1989 Promise, Promises and Problems Leadline Magazine, Toronto
1981 Architectural Glass as Environmental Art, New Work Magazine (New York Experimental Glass Workshop)
1980 Personal Image for Social Space Introduction to Catalogue
ARTICLES ABOUT
2022 Gord Peteran The Man Behind the Curtain: The Visible Workings of Stuart Reid, for Gallery Stratford
2016 Mark Mann ‘zones of immersion.’ Neues Glass–New Glass: art & architecture, Cologne:Verlag Herausgeber
2015
Sky Gooden, Momus, Public art has to be art first and public second, a conversation with Stuart Reid on Union Station
Canadian Architect, Zones of Immersion unveiled at Toronto’s Union Station
Inside Toronto, ‘Bloody gorgeous’ art unveiling wraps up Union Station platform renovations
Urban Toronto, Union Subway Station Completed and Full Artwork Unveiled
Global News, Union subway station done but overall revitalization still two years away
CTV News, TTC celebrates its completion of Union Station subway renovation
680 News, IN PHOTOS: Toronto's Union Station renovation complete
City News, IN PHOTOS: Toronto's Union Station renovation complete
Mark Mann, Torontoist, New Union Station Glass Installation Lets the Darkness Through
Rebecca Tucker, National Post, Mind the art: Stuart Reid aims to redefine commuting with his large-scale art installation at Union Station
Christopher Humee, The Toronto Star, Union Station artwork an exercise in artistic transparency
Sky Goodden Introduction to ‘In Transit’ drawings for Gallery Gevik
Boja Vasic ‘zones of immersion’ documentary film
2014 Salena Barry, Stuart Reid's Union Station Art Encourages TTC Riders to Engage
2007
Virginia Eichhorn Curator’s Statement, Stumbling Home from Banff (catalogue)
Vessna Perunovich Prologue, Stumbling Home from Banff (catalogue)
Donald Brackett In Vitreous Veritas, Stumbling Home from Banff (catalogue)
2006
Kate Baden Fuller (2006) Contemporary Stained Glass Artists. London: A&C Black
Andrew Moor (2006) Colours of Architecture. London: Mitchell Beazley
2005 TURKISH NATIONAL TELEVISION interview: Stuart Reid in Golyazi, Turkey
2004 Jessica Goldman Stuart Reid at the Banff Centre. OCAD Canvas (December)
2001
FRANFURTER ALLGEMEIN, Frankfurt, Germany (news)
WIESBADEN COURIER, Wiesbaden, Germany (news)
articles re: Homage to Mozart (Salzburg Congress, Salzburg, Austria)
2000
Doreen Balabanoff Canadian Glass This Side Up! Valkenswaard, Netherlands
Richard Gross Feature Interview: Stuart Reid Stained Glass Quarterly (Raytown, Mo.)
1999 Donna Lypchuck Windows of the Soul Ontario Craft
1998
Stephen Knapp The Art of Glass, Integrating Architecture and Glass (Rockport)
Christopher Hume TORONTO STAR feature article ‘The Colour of Money’
Robert Reid KITCHENER WATERLOO RECORD Review
1997
Andrew Moor Architectural Glass Art 1st ed. New York: Rizzoli.
VERRE MAGAZINE, Paris, France; LA REPUBLIQUE and L’ECHO, Chartres, France
1991
CFPL TELEVISION feature interview: People in the City
Veronica Tennant CBC Arts & Entertainment, feature documentary: People in the City
EDUCATION
MArch UCLA (1985) w/ Charles Moore, Charles Jencks, Lionel March, Frank Israel, Eugene Kupper, Robert Mangurian
B.A. (Art) University of Guelph (1974) w/ John Elderfield, Greg Curnoe, Eric Cameron, Walter Bachinski, Raold Naasgard
Burleighfield House (1974-76) w/ Patrick Reyntiens, Anne Bruce, Ludwig Schaffrath
Edinburgh Arts (1973) w/ Joseph Beuys, Taddeus Kantor, Richard DeMarco, Patrick Reyntiens
Beal Art (1970) w/ Patterson Ewen, Herb Ariss, Bert Kloezeman
TEACHING
Professor Emeritus OCAD University
OCAD University, Environmental Design 1988-2021
University of Toronto, Fine Arts 1987-1997