Carol Reed is an American artist. She works primarily on paper with drawing and printmaking. Painting is the foundation of her practice. She maintains a studio in Alexandria Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC, where she has lived since 1985.
After earning bachelor and master degrees in design at Oklahoma State University, she relocated as a permanent resident to western Canada as assistant professor of design, University of Alberta. While teaching textile design, illustration and presentation, continued her education earning a BFA in studio painting, printmaking and art history.
Returning to the US, she participated in summer printmaking residencies in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University and with painter illustrator, Richard Merkin, in Providence at the the Rhode Island School of Design.
She completed an MFA in studio painting at the Maryland Institute, College of Art before joining the staff of the Smithsonian Institution in educational travel and museum outreach. As a cultural heritage and communications consultant for the World Bank she designed exhibitions and education programs to help put a public face on World Bank cultural partnerships.
Her extensive international travel has influenced and informed the art she makes and her work has been included in group and solo exhibitions in the US and abroad, including Brunei, Seville Spain, Bujumbura Burundi, and Bratislava Slovakia. In 2007, she lived and worked in northern India as a Fulbright scholar. The American Center in New Delhi hosted her solo exhibition of 32 paintings in January, 2008.
Her work is included in over thirty public, corporate, and private collections including The United States Department of State, The Library of Congress, The Art Bank DC, The World Bank and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
After earning bachelor and master degrees in design at Oklahoma State University, she relocated as a permanent resident to western Canada as assistant professor of design, University of Alberta. While teaching textile design, illustration and presentation, continued her education earning a BFA in studio painting, printmaking and art history.
Returning to the US, she participated in summer printmaking residencies in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University and with painter illustrator, Richard Merkin, in Providence at the the Rhode Island School of Design.
She completed an MFA in studio painting at the Maryland Institute, College of Art before joining the staff of the Smithsonian Institution in educational travel and museum outreach. As a cultural heritage and communications consultant for the World Bank she designed exhibitions and education programs to help put a public face on World Bank cultural partnerships.
Her extensive international travel has influenced and informed the art she makes and her work has been included in group and solo exhibitions in the US and abroad, including Brunei, Seville Spain, Bujumbura Burundi, and Bratislava Slovakia. In 2007, she lived and worked in northern India as a Fulbright scholar. The American Center in New Delhi hosted her solo exhibition of 32 paintings in January, 2008.
Her work is included in over thirty public, corporate, and private collections including The United States Department of State, The Library of Congress, The Art Bank DC, The World Bank and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.