Steve Reinke Explained

Steve Reinke
Birth Date:5 June 1963
Birth Place:Eganville, Ontario, Canada
Known For:Video artist

Steve Reinke (born 1963) is a Canadian video artist and filmmaker.[1]

Life

Reinke was born June 5, 1963, in Eganville, Ontario, Canada. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois,[2] [3] where he is a professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University.[4] He received his M.F.A. from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1993.[5]

Work

Reinke's best known work is The 100 Videos (1996) and consists of one hundred separate videos created between 1990 and 1996.[6]

As a writer and editor, Reinke has co-edited Lux: A Decade of Artists' Film and Video, 2000 and published Everybody Loves Nothing: Video 1996-2004, 2004.[7]

Exhibitions

Reinke exhibited in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.[8] He has additionally exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Centre, Tate, National Gallery of Canada, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the New York Video Festival.[9]

Collections

Reinke's work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada[10] and the Museum of Modern Art.[11]

Awards

In 2006, Reinke won the Bell Canada Award for Video Art, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Artist/Maker Name "Reinke, Steve". Canadian Heritage Information Network. Government of Canada. 13 June 2016.
  2. Web site: Artist Steve Reinke. Canadian Art. 14 June 2016.
  3. Web site: Vaughan. RM. Video artist Steve Reinke's narrators are getting closer to the real thing (whatever that means). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 June 2016.
  4. Web site: Faculty. Northwestern University. 14 June 2016.
  5. Book: Steve Reinke: the hundred videos. Reinke. Steve. Monk. Philip. Power Plant (Art gallery). 1997. Power Plant. Toronto. 9780921047254. English.
  6. Book: Mike Hoolboom. Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists. 27 September 2013. Coach House Books. 978-1-77056-181-6. 232–.
  7. Book: Lux: a decade of artists'film and video. Reinke. Steve. Taylor. Tom. YYZ (Galerie). Pleasure Dome (Association). 2000. YYZ Books. 0920397263. Toronto. 757385273. English.
  8. Web site: Steve Reinke With Jessie Mott. Whitney.org. 14 June 2016. 18 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160318191747/http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/SteveReinkeWithJessieMott. dead.
  9. Book: Everybody loves nothing: video 1996-2004. Reinke. Steve. Hoolboom. Michael. 2004. Coach House Books. 1552451488. Toronto, Ont.. English. registration.
  10. Web site: Reinke, Steve 1963-. National Gallery of Canada. 13 June 2016.
  11. Web site: Steve Reinke. Museum of Modern Art. 13 June 2016.
  12. Web site: Toronto artist Steve Reinke wins $10,000 video art prize. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 June 2016.