Bio

Reed is a visual artist from the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area, California. They use ceramics and double exposure photography to explore themes of identity, nature and relationship to the land, community, and connection. They are a student at Mills College in Oakland California and are the recipient of the Nancy Cook Photography Fellowship 2025. 

Artist Statement

I am a visual artist from the San Francisco Bay Area on Ohlone and Miwok land, where I grew up climbing grassy hillsides and descending the banks of Bay tree-lined streams and where my curiosity about the history of the land began. Through my photography and ceramics practice, I explore the relationship between person and place. Our personal identities are all held and deeply affected by the land that holds us, and upon which all of our experiences have taken place.

I use double exposure photography on film as well as digital photography layered by hand in editing programs to merge two images into one; creating a visual metaphor for the blurred lines between person and place, between one memory and another, and between collective and individual experiences.

Contact

reeds.illustration@gmail.com

Social Media

@reedtography