Born in 1963 in Eganville, Canada
Lives and works in Chicago, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2021 —Sparrow Dust, Foxy Production, New York
- 2020 —Butter, cur. Manuela Amman, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna
- 2018 —Rib Gets in the Way, cur. Lisa Steele, Bachir/Yerex, Toronto
- 2017 —Portfolio A/Atheists Need Theology, Too / Drawings, Western Exhibitions, Chicago
- —Human Events, cur. Rosie Cooper & Ariella Yedgar, online exhibition, outoffocus.biz
- —An Arrow Pointing to a Hole, White Cubicle, London
- 2016 —The Genital is Superfluous, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
- 2012 —Rib Gets In the Way, Anna Leonowens, Halifax
- 2011 —The Root Problem of the World, Birch Libralato, Toronto
- 2010 —The Tiny Ventriloquist, Supported by the Warhol Foundation, Gallery 400, Chicago
- 2009 —Steve Reinke, cur. Laure Prouvost, online exhibition at tank.tv
- —Boy/Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein’s “Narrative of a Child Analysis”, Black Box, Argos, Brussels
- 2008 —Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love, Lux28, London
- —Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp), Salt Lake City Art Center
- 2007 —Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love, Vega Estates, Chicago
- —My Rectum is Not a Grave, VOX, Montreal
- —Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love, Birch Libralato, Toronto
- 2005 —The Robot of the Subconscious, VonZweck, Chicago
- 2004 —Anthology of American Folk Song, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto
- 2000 —The Hundred Videos, Peer Projects, London
- —Steve Reinke, cur. Joe Wolin & Tom Folland, Thread Waxing Space, New York
- 1999 —Steve Reinke, SMART Projects, Five program retrospective on ALMANAC: Art on Television, Amsterdam
- —The Hundred Videos, The Video Room, Williamsburg, New York
- —Incidents of Travel, Argos, Brussels
- —Spiritual Animal Kingdom, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto
- 1998 —Collected Portable Works, Etablissement d’en face, Brussels
- 1997 —How I Became Subtle: Collected Portable Works, eye level gallery, Halifax
- —The Hundred Videos, The Power Plant, Toronto
- 1996 —18/100: The Hundred Videos, Art Gallery of Ontario
- 1995 —The Hundred Videos, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
- —Empty graves. Scattered applause., YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto
- 1992 —100 Videos, cur. Nelson Henricks, Oboro, Montréal
- —100 Videos (The First Twelve), YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2022 —EMAF - European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
- 2021 —When We Were Monsters, cur. James Richards, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen
- —Illiberal Arts, cur. Kerstin Stakemeier & Anselm Franke, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
- —Threads, Foxy Production, New York
- —Tourism, Kunsthaus Glarus
- 2020 —The Botanical Mind, Camden Arts Centre, London (cur. Gina Bluenfeld and Martin Clark)
- —Living in Hope, cur. Madeline Bogos, Curatorial Incubator V.16, V/Tape, Toronto
- —Sets and Scenarios, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
- 2019 —Abstract Sex: We don’t have any clothes, only equipment, cur. Lucrezia Calabro Visconti and Guido Costa, Artissima, Turin
- —My informal printmaking residency with Stan Shellabarger, Western Exhibitions, Chicago
- 2018 —Image Reading, cur. Sylvain Menétrey, Forde, Geneva
- —Film London, UK Jarman Award: A Journey Through the First Decade, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- —Godbottom, cur. Stevie Hanley, Club Inferno, New York
- 2017 —Mausoleum of Lovers, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
- —The Locker Room Show, cur. Ian Wooldridge, Plymouth Rock, Zurich
- —57th Venice Biennale, collaborative video with James Richards for the Welsh Pavilion, Venice
- —Godbottom, cur. Stevie Hanley, The Condo Association, Chicago
- —How to Survive, cur. Emily Eddy, Pinky Swear, Chicago
- —Odarodle, cur. Ashkan Sepahvand, Schwules* Museum, Berlin
- —56 Artillery Lane, cur. Amy Budd and Naomi Pierce, Raven Row, London
- —Videonale. 16, Kunstmuseum Bonn
- —DOCUMENT XXL, Artexte, Montreal, cur. Nelson Henricks
- —VDBTV: The Current Decade, cur. Omar Kholief, online exhibition by Video Data Bank, Chicago
- —Address, cur. Female Background (Cameron Crawford and Gabriella D’Italia), Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine
- —Sketch organs, cur. Erin Hayden, DEMO Project, Springfield
- 2016 —A Momentary Lapse of Reason, cur. Abbye Church, Public Access, Chicago
- —Form Follows Fiction, cur. Luis Jacob, University of Toronto, Canada Art Centre
- —Below the Belt: Film/Video from the Great Lakes Region, cur. Christine Negus , McIntosh Gallery, London, Canada
- —Will, Wish, Want or Purpose, presented w/ Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Sled Island, Calgary
- —Our Machines, cur. Louise Colbourne, Observer Building Gallery, Hastings
- —Obscure Objects of Desire, cur. Aily Nash, Grand Century at Paramount Ranch, Los Angeles
- 2015 —Wunderground, Argos, Brussels
- —Squeezing Sorrow from an Ashtray, cur. James Richards and Steven Cairns, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
- —14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
- —The Nothing That Is—a drawing show in five parts: Chapter 1, DDRRAAWWIINNGG, cur. Bill Thelen and Jason Polan, CAM Raleigh
- —The Gay Mafia is Real, Western Exhibitions, Chicago
- —Giving Up the Ghost, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
- —Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, cur. Ed Atkins and James Richards, Eden Eden/Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi Berlin
- —Si Tu Veux Voir Le Monde, Ferme Tes Yeux: Part 2, Argos, Brussels
- —S/N, cur. the Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Independent Study Program, The Kitchen, New York
- —Move ON: Media Art from Canada, Australia and Europe, Werkleitz, Halle
- —Curatorial Incubator v.12: Bad Timing, cur. Adam Barbu, Vtape, Toronto
- 2014 —A Giant, Whose Shoulders I Stand On, Cardiff Contemporary, Cardiff
- —Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- —Purrr Verts, cur. Evan Tyler, Galerie Kurt im Hirsh, Berlin
- —Baudy, Adds Donna, Chicago
- 2013 —Wandering Through, Across and Within, cur. Christina Battle, Counterpath, Denver
- —Some Rushes: Steve Reinke/James Richards, CAGE, New York
- 2012 —All That Shines Ain’t No Gold, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul
- —The Illuminated Room: Steve Reinke/James Richards, Leeds College of Art, Leeds
- —A Place of Memory, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
- —Anal Swastika VS Genital Holocaust, Lump, Raleigh (with Elijah Burgher)
- 2008 —Metamorphosis, cur. Peggy Gale, AK Bank Sanat, Istanbul
- —Use This Kind of Sky, cur. Paul Eachus & Nooshin Farhid, online exhibition
Selected Solo Screenings
- 2022 —Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (with James Richards)
- 2020 —Mumok Cinema, Vienna (with James Richards)
- —Microlights, Milwaukee
- 2018 —Available Light, Brooklyn
- —Images, Toronto
- 2017 —Cinemateque Ontario, Toronto
- —Libreria, Art Night, London (cur. Ariella Yedgar)
- —LUX Scotland, Glasgow Film Theatre
- —A.M. London, London
- 2016 —Union Docs, Brooklyn, New York
- —Wexner Center, Columbus
- —Animate Projects, Quad Gallery, Derby
- 2015 —Nocturnes: Night of the Underground, Video Ex, Zurich
- —Flaherty Seminar, Hamilton, New York
- —International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
- —BFI Flare: London
- —Leslie + Lohman Prince Street Project, New York
- —Union Theatre, Milwaukee
- 2014 —Iceberg Projects, Chicago
- 2012 —FlexFest, Gainesville
- —Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale
- —Khyber, Halifax
- 2009 —Kino Arsenal, Berlin
- 2008 —London, UK Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute, London
- —WORM, Rotterdam
- 2007 —Open Archive, Argos, Brussels
- —Winnipeg Film Group / Video Pool, Winnipeg
- —Cinemateque Ontario, Toronto
- 2006 —Soil/Neutral Ground/Queer, City Cinema, Regina
- 2005 —Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
- 2004 —Experimental Tuesdays, Union Theatre, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
- 2003 —OVNI, Barcelona
- 2002 —Argos Festival – Spotlight retrospective, Brussels (four screenings)
- —Pleasure Dome, Toronto
- 2001 —Chicago, USA Filmmakers, Chicago
- —Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
- 1999 —Making Scenes, Ottawa
- —Video Verite, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- —Dunlop Arts Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan
- 1998 —Lux Theatre, London
- —Viper Media Art Festival, Lucerne
- —International Film Festival, Rotterdam
- 1997 —MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
- —Montreal International Festival of Cinema and New Media, Montreal
- —Institute of Contemporary Art, London
- —Monstra de Video Independent, Barcelona
- —Station Arts Electroniques, Rennes
- —Glare Series, University of California, San Diego
- 1996 —Vidéo Art Plastique, 9émes Recontres Herouville Saint-Clair
- —Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- —Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
- —Out on Screen, Vancouver
- —EM/Media, CalgaryOut on Screen
- —New Gallery, Calgary
- —University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge
- —Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
- —SUNY Buffalo, New York
- —The Independents, Art Gallery of Ontario/Cinemateque Ontario, Toronto
- 1995 —International Images, Peterborough
- —Articule, Montréal