Brendan Reed

Brendan Reed is a multimedia artist crafting interactive installation elements, immersive designs, and dynamic media for exhibitions and Museum identity while supporting operations with custom-built systems. Trained at Bard College and the Rhode Island School of Design, Reed’s animations, films, apps, and music have been exhibited and performed across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. His work spans digital initiatives in the arts, including multimedia exhibition design and materials, collection management, and application development. Recent collaborations include Urban Sound Art (Fredrikstad, Norway), Constellation Records, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Fondation Riopelle, Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, the estates of Jean Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas, The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art (Montreal, Québec). As a musician, Reed has performed with numerous bands, released internationally distributed recordings, and toured extensively. He established and directs Far Country Art Center (rural Virginia) and Hotel Castle Ruins (Montreal, Québec), residency programs for emerging artists. He has also served as a program manager for New York City Health and Hospitals Test and Trace. At the Muscarelle, Reed has created installation films, soundtracks, large scale design elements, sculptural objects, and applications for major exhibitions, including Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road, Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty, Caravaggio Connoisseurship, Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding, and Legacy of America’s Indian School, Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection, Women With Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Rising: The American Indian Movement and the Third Space of Sovereignty (Gold Winner at SEMC, 2020), and Forever Marked by a Day.