Steve Reinke

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Steve Reinke
Born (1963-06-05) June 5, 1963 (age 60)
Eganville, Ontario, Canada
Known forVideo artist
Website www.myrectumisnotagrave.com

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

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Life

Reinke was born June 5, 1963, in Eganville, Ontario, Canada. [2] He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, [3] [4] where he is a professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. [5] He received his M.F.A. from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1993. [6]

Work

Reinke's best known work is The 100 Videos (1996) and consists of one hundred separate videos created between 1990 and 1996. [3] [7]

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. [8]

Exhibitions

Reinke exhibited in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. [9] 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. [10]

Collections

Reinke's work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada [2] 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]

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References

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  5. "Faculty". Northwestern University. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  6. Reinke, Steve; Monk, Philip; Power Plant (Art gallery) (1997). Steve Reinke: the hundred videos. Toronto: Power Plant. ISBN   9780921047254.
  7. Mike Hoolboom (27 September 2013). Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists. Coach House Books. pp. 232–. ISBN   978-1-77056-181-6.
  8. Reinke, Steve; Taylor, Tom; YYZ (Galerie); Pleasure Dome (Association) (2000). Lux: a decade of artists'film and video. Toronto: YYZ Books. ISBN   0920397263. OCLC   757385273.
  9. "Steve Reinke With Jessie Mott". Whitney.org. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  10. Reinke, Steve; Hoolboom, Michael (2004). Everybody loves nothing: video 1996-2004 . Toronto, Ont.: Coach House Books. ISBN   1552451488.
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