Brendan Reed

Brendan Reed is a multimedia artist working with the museum to create interfaces for exhibitions and operations. Trained at Bard College and Rhode Island School of Design, Reed’s interfaces, films, and music have been exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. He has assisted international arts organizations through digital initiatives including multimedia exhibition and installation materials, collection management, application development, and interface design. Recent collaborations include Constellation Records in Montreal (QC), Escalator Records in Tokyo (JP), Suoni Per Il Popolo Experimental Music Festival, the estates of Jean Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas, and The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art in Montreal. Reed is also the director of Far Country Art Center artist residency program in rural Virginia and program manager at New York City Health and Hospitals Test and Trace. In addition to building web resources with the museum, Reed has created exhibition animations and applications for 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,  and Rising: The American Indian Movement and the Third Space of Sovereignty, a Gold winner at SEMC in 2020.