New Hampshire-based artist Kiera Reese experiments with the process of photography to compare and better understand mechanical and biological vision. She earned her MFA from Lesley University, College of Art and Design in 2015 and her BFA at New Hampshire Institute of Art, magna cum laude, in 2012. Reese’s process includes digital manipulation, inkjet printing on non-traditional substrates, such as untreated fabrics, and glass transfers, as well as incorporating historical photographic processes, including the camera obscura, film processes and cyanotypes. Reese’s work plays with the intersection between the analog and the digital, and the physical and ephemeral.
Recent group exhibitions include Alternative Process Photography in New Hampshire, At Home in the World in Massachusetts, and Contemporary Landscapes in New York. Reese also teaches photographic techniques, both analogue and digital, to students in New Hampshire.
As technology becomes interwoven in daily life, Reese probes what this means for how we perceive our world, both literally through mechanical lenses and digital displays, as well as conceptually through our understanding of time and how digital tools upend the traditional narrative approach to information.
RESUMÉ
Education
MFA 2015, Lesley University College of Art and Design, MA
BFA 2008-2012 New Hampshire Institute of Art, NH
2011 Study Abroad in Athens, Greece
Awards
2024 First Place in Black and White, “Show Winter Some Love”
2016 Long List, Lumen Prize for Digital Art
2014 Juror's Choice Award, Alumni Exhibition
2008-2012 Presidential Scholarship, New Hampshire Institute of Art
2008 Women in Arts Scholarship
2008 Congressional Art Award, NH
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2023 Alternative Process Photography, Galletly Gallery, NH
Iconic New Hampshire, Silver Center for the Arts, NH
All Together Now, See/Saw Gallery, NH
Shine, Mosaic Art Collective, NH
Beginnings, Gallery in the Square, NH
2021 Gestalt: A Film Photography Exhibition, Engine, Biddeford, ME
Alumni Exhibition, New England College, NH
At Home in the World, Creative Harbor, Salem, MA
2018 Everything Happens Now, Kelley Stelling Gallery, NH
Dialogues: Medium and Materiality, New Art Center, MA
Photography Alumni Exhibition, Cabonnay, NH
Contemporary Landscapes, Roxbury Art Group, NY
2017 In-Sight Photography, Tiny Gallery, VT
2014 Alumni Exhibition, NH
Boston Young Contemporaries, MA
2013 Biennial 2013, French Gallery, NH
The 11th Annual Blanche Ames National Art Exhibition, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists (NHSPA) 24th Annual Member Exhibit, Exeter, NH
2023 Lesley MFA 20th Anniversary Alumni Show, VanDernoot, MA
2022 Salon, Kimball Jenkins, NH
2018 Love, Lust and Desire, McGowan Fine Art Gallery, NH
2017 Group 6: WIP, Lunder Arts Center, MA
2016 Now, French Gallery, NH
2016 Wanderlust: A Visual Symphony, Karl Dreup Art Gallery, NH
2015 The Pine Tree Statements, Autus, ME
2015 MFA Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, Lesley University, MA
2015 Greece Anniversary Exhibition, Hellenic American University, Greece
2015 Love, Lust and Desire, McGowan Fine Art Gallery, NH
2014 Alumni Exhibition, French Gallery, NH
2013 Light and Shadow, Gallery 6, NH
2013 Close to My Heart, Azure Rising Gallery, NH
2013 Protege, New Hampshire Art Association, NH
2012 Home, Artstream, NH
2012 Winter Salon Show, Soo Rye Gallery, NH
2012 Discovery Beauty, Gallery 6, NH
2012 Street, Vermont Center for Photography, VT
2012 10th Annual Minumental, Amherst Street Gallery, NH
2011 Greece: Three Emerging Artists, Amherst Street Gallery, NH
2011 Potluck, Vault Gallery, NH
2011 Annual Minumental, French Building Gallery, NH
2010 Ex Libris, Fuller Hall Gallery, NH
Commission
Crown of Courage, Concord, NH
Traveling Hearts, Cloquet, MN
Sea Life Mural, Concord, NH
All images are property of Kiera Reese 2024, unless otherwise noted.