Discipline: Film/Video – experimental

Steve Reinke

Discipline: Film/Video – experimental
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his first-person video essays. He is associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern.

In residence, he worked on his ongoing video essay Final Thoughts, which entailed writing monologues and completing animation that will be part of Human Events: Final Thoughts, Series Five. Earlier components of the series have been widely exhibited, screened and collected, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial and the Berlinale.

Studios

Garland

Steve Reinke worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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