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LESLIE REID (1947 - ), R.C.A.

“Throughout my practice, I have been engaged in a very personal exploration of our tenuous perception of ourselves in relation to both our sensory and our emotional place in the world, particularly through research into liminal states in painting. The work, in painting, print, photography, and recently in video, explores the physicality of our experience, especially the perceptual limits of light and space, seeking to engage, through the ambiguities experienced in this uncertain visual field, both a thought-provoking and a deeply resonant emotional response to this act of seeing, and ultimately to being.”

- Leslie Reid -

Born in Ottawa in 1947, Leslie Reid graduated from Queen’s University with a degree in Art History and Political Science and studied drawing, painting and printing at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London, England. She studied printmaking at the Chelsea School of Art and in a postgraduate course at the Slade School of Arts, University of London.

Although Reid has always worked from photographs, her intention has never been photographic objectivity. What interests her are the perceptual and psychological sensations provoked by the experience of a particular place. The landscapes she is attracted to extend from Calumet and Cantley, places with which she has had a long personal connection, to less familiar sites where the quality of the space and light and the signs of human presence on the land are held in equilibrium.

Reid’s career spans over three decades. She exhibited in the landmark exhibition Some Canadian Women Artists, held at the National Gallery of Canada in celebration of the first International Women’s Year, and she also represented Canada at the Paris Biennale. Major solo exhibitions have been held at Canada House Gallery, London, the Centre culturel canadien, Paris, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, and the Robert Mclaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. A survey of 15 years of work at the Ottawa Art Gallery toured in California and Georgia. A retrospective exhibition, A Darkening Vision, at the Carleton University Art Gallery in the fall of 2011, featured works from 1975 to the present.

Reid has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, of which she has been a member since 1977. She was artist-in-residence at the École nationale de la photographie in France and at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Glenbow Museum, amongst others. She also taught painting and drawing at the University of Ottawa from 1972 until 2007, where she is Professor Emerita in the Department of Visual Arts. Reid lives in Ottawa, Ontario.


Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Canada Council Art Bank
Carleton University Art Gallery
City of Ottawa
Claridge Collection
Department of External Affairs
Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Kitchener Waterloo Gallery
Memorial University Art Gallery
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa Art Gallery
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville
Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
University of Manitoba
Via Rail
Winnipeg Art Gallery

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 The Cape Pine Series, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
2011 Leslie Reid: A Darkening Vision, retrospective exhibition Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
2011, 2006, 2003, 1998 Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
1996 Surfacing, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
1996 1993 Galerie l'Autre Équivoque, Ottawa
1994-1990 Landscape into Light: Leslie Reid Paintings and Prints 1974-1990,
        Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
1992 Fine Arts Center, Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia
1991 Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California
1991 Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz
1991 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1990 Ottawa Art Gallery
1984, 1981, 1978 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
1984 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON
1982 Galerie Jolliet, Montreal, QC
1980 Centre culturel canadien, Paris, France
1980 Canada House, London, England
1978, 1976 Gallery Graphics, Ottawa, ON
1973 Gallery Zella 9, London, England


Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 The Heart of the Matter, Ottawa Art Gallery, ON
2012-13 Builders: The Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2012 An Embarrassment of Riches: the Collection in Focus, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2012 Big,Galerie St-Laurent+Hill, Ottawa, ON
2012 Landscapes/Paysages, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, QC
2010 400 Women, Shoreditch Town Gallery, London, Edinburgh Festival, UK
2006 Heteropias, Ottawa Art Gallery, ON
2005 Going Public, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2003 The Bigger Picture, Ottawa Art Gallery, ON
2002 That 70s Show, Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
2000 La Cathédrale engloutie, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, QC
ARTS 2000 RCA, Gallery Stratford
1999 Les Peintures, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, QC
1997 Virtue and Vulgarity, University of Reading, U.K.
1997, 1996 Fertile Ground, Centennial Galleries, Oakville; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON
1994 The Contemplative Landscape, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
1993 New Landscapes: Jacob Collins, Stephen Hannock, Leslie Reid, Gallery One, Toronto, ON
1992 Picture a Place, Ottawa Art Gallery, ON
1986 Ottawa/The Hague - Artoteek, The Hague, Netherlands, ON
1984 Reflections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
        Remy Martin National Juried Exhibition, Toronto, ON
        The Modern Landscape, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
1982 Canadian Horizons, Works from the Art Bank, Alaska (touring);
        Four Artists: Alleyn, Nolte, Reid, Rousseau, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
        Printmakers '82 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
1981 Works from the Art Bank, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, ON
        Recreating the Landscape, Sarnia Gallery, ON
1980 8th International Print Biennale, Cracow, Poland
        International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto, Japan
1979 XIe Festival international de la Peinture, Cagnes s/Mer, France;
        Selected Aspects of Canadian Printmaking, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto (touring).
1978 Canadian Contemporary Prints, National Gallery of Canada
        7th International Print Biennale, Cracow, Poland
1977 10e Biennale de Paris, France
        Tendances Actuelles, Centre culturel canadien, Paris, France
        12th International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
        03 23 03, Galerie B, Montreal, and National Gallery of Canada
        Three Artists, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, ON
        9th Burnaby Print Biennial, BC
1976 Some Canadian Women Artists, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
        Spectrum Canada, Montreal, QC
1974 Canadian Printmakers at Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY
        Printed Matter, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Purchase Prize
        Canadian Contemporary Graphics, Winnipeg Art Gallery - Purchase Prize
1974, 1973, 1972 Canadian Printmakers' Showcase, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
1973 Young Generation, Norrkopings Museum, Sweden (British Arts Council);
        7th Burnaby Print Biennial, BC
1971 Platform '71, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

Selected Awards, Honours, and Grants

2012 Diamond Jubilee Medal
2011 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2000 Jury Prize, ARTS 2000 Exhibition, Royal Canadian Academy
1997 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
1996, 1990 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
1995 Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton, “A” Arts Grant
1991 Ministry of Culture and Communications, Province of Ontario, Arts Abroad Grant
1991, 1977 Department of External Affairs, Travel Grant, Exhibition and Travel Grant
1989, 1983, 1977, 1974 Canada Council for the Arts, Project Costs Grant
1984, 1983, 1974 Ontario Arts Council: Experience ’84 Grant; Project Grant; Editions I Award
1980, 1976, 1975 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Grant B
1979-1980 Canada Council for the Arts Studio, Cite internationale des arts, Paris
1978 Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Selected Links

lesliereid.ca
Canadian Art: Leslie Reid
Ottawa Magazine