Reynold Reynolds was born in 1966 in Central Alaska. During his undergraduate schooling at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Reynolds 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 filmmaker Stan Brakhage. After moving to New York City Reynolds completed an M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts.

Influenced early on by philosophy and science, and working primarily with 16mm as an art medium, he has developed a film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Detailed evolving symbols and allusive references create a powerful pictorial language based on Reynolds’ analytical point of view. His depiction of people often makes us aware of the small frames we use to understand reality. By subtly altering the regular conditions of life and watching their effects, he transfers the experimental methods of science to filmmaking, where he frames reality in his laboratory and changes one variable at a time to reveal an underlying causality.

In 2003 Reynold Reynolds was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and in 2004 invited to The American Academy in Berlin with a studio at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien for one year. In 2008 he received support from the German Kunstfonds to develop two projects in Berlin. Reynolds has received numerous awards for his film work, including the Festival Award for “Secret Life” at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, 2008, the ‘09 Distinction Award for “Six Apartments” at Transmediale Berlin and Mention spéciale du jury, “Last Day of theRepublic” at Videoformes, 2011

Awards

Mention spéciale du jury, "Last Day of the Republic" at Videoformes, 2011
Jury Mention, “Stadtplan”, at the 5th Cambridge International Super8 Filmfestival, 2011
Second Prize- Jury’s Citation Selections, “Six Easy Pieces”, at the Black Maria Film Festival, 2010
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

Selected Grants
Stiftung Kunstfonds Arbeitsstipendium Deutschland 2008
New York Foundation for the Arts 2008
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2003
Jerome Foundation Grant 2003
New York Foundation for the Arts 2003
Creative Capital 2001
Paula Rhodes Graduation Award 1995

Residency
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Poland), three months, 2011
Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), eight months, 2010
Impakt Utrecht (The Netherlands), two months, 2009
Sacatar (Brazil), six weeks, 2006
Yaddo New York (USA), eight weeks, 2005
American Academy in Berlin (Germany), one year, 2004
Eyebeam New York Residency (USA), 2003

Education
1995 Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Related Media. School of Visual Arts NY
1991 Film Studies with Stan Brakhage, Bill Stamets, University of Colorado, Boulder.
1991 Bachelor of Arts in Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder.