Biography
From a small town in the Pacific Northwest, Sienna Reid is a graduate of the University of Washington with a BFA in painting. Since the age of 19 she has been exhibiting in the USA and Italy, where she lived from 1999 until 2014. Now living in NYC and working out her studio in Bushwick, since 2007 Reid has been working on a large multimedia project, Sticks and Stones, which examines the Amanda Knox trial in Italy, and the words that were used to assassinate her character by the police, prosecution, lawyers, media and ultimately the anonymous online masses. Her work uses historical research on scapegoating/shaming, abuse of power, historic and modern feminist/women's issues, identity issues, wrongful conviction, and the use of words to harm the individual. Reid works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, video, photography, ceramics as well as experimental processes to explore universal themes that interest her and to draw connections from the ancient world to the present.
