Reynold Reynolds was born in 1966 in Central Alaska. During his undergraduate schooling at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Reynolds initially studied physics receiving a bachelor's degree under the professorship of Carl Wieman (Physics Nobel Laureate 2001). Changing his focus to studio art he remained two more years in Boulder to study under experimental film maker Stan Brakhage. Reynolds then finished an M.F.A. in New York City at the School of Visual Arts.
Influenced early on by philosophy and working primarily with 16mm and Super 8mm film as an art medium he has developed a common film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Reynolds' depictions frequent disturbed psychological and physical themes, increasingly provoking the viewer's participation and dismay.
In 2003 Reynold Reynolds was awarded the John Simone Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and in 2004 he was invited to The American Academy in Berlin with a studio at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien for one year. In 2007 he received the German Kunstfonds support to develop two projects in Berlin in 2008. In 2010 he will have a eight month residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany).
Awards
First Prize - Jury’s Choice 2)Secret Machine Black Maria Film Fest. 2009
Distinction Award 09 for Six Apartments at the Transmediale Berlin, Germany
EMAF Festival Award, Secret Life European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck,
2008
Third Place, After The Vernissage, Kansk International Video Festival, Russia: 2007
Runner up, Experimental, Stadtplan SXSW Film Fest. 2006
First Prize - Jury’s Choice Burn Black Maria Film Fest. 2003
First Place, Experimental The
Drowning Room SXSW Film Fest.
2000
Honorable Mention The
Drowning Room Sundance Film
Fest. 2000
First Place, Experimental Seven
Days Til Sunday SXSW Film Fest.
99
First Place, Experimental Seven Days Til Sunday NY Underground Film Fest. 98
First Place, Experimental Seven Days Til Sunday New Jersey Film Fest. 99
Third Place, Experimental The History
of the Future Central Florida
Film Fest 97
First Place, Audience NYC-Symphony US S-8mm Film Fest 96
Grants
Stiftung Kunstfonds Arbeitsstipendium Deutschland 2008
New York Foundation for the Arts 2008
John Simone Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation 2003
Jerome Foundation Grant 2003
New York Foundation for
the Arts 2003
Creative Capital 2001
Paula Rhodes Graduation
Award 1995
Residency
Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), eight months, 2010
Impakt Utrecht (Holland), two months, 2009
Sacatar Brasil, six weeks, 2006
Yaddo New York, eight weeks, 2005
American Academy in Berlin, one year, 2004
Eyebeam New York Residency 2003
Education
1995 Master of Fine Arts
in Photography and Related Media. School
of Visual Arts NY
1991 Film Studies with
Stan Brackage, Bill Stamets, University
of Colorado, Boulder.
1991 Bachelor of Arts
in Physics, University
of Colorado, Boulder.
