Natalie Reis

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Canadian. Born in Montréal, Canada (1981).
Lives and works in Montréal.

Formally trained in painting, drawing and printmaking, Natalie Reis embraces different mediums and incorporates sculpture, installation and text-based work into her practice. Her highly recognizable fine lines and clean compositions are driven by a political, social and firm feminist tone that runs like a thread through her work.

Through often very large scale painting or drawings of a more intimate nature, the works of Natalie Reis incarnate in a figurative work that sometimes flirts with abstraction as she breaks down technically rendered works with abstract marks and layering techniques borrowed from printmaking. In a formal and delicate way, she assumes a critical narrative playing with accumulations, appropriations and juxtapositions. She skillfully intertwines icons, symbols and cultural references from art history, contemporary media issues and popular culture. This is how she reinterprets important art history paintings or addresses socially charged topics as infanticide, rape or the place of women in art history and current society.

A graduate of Concordia University and the University of Waterloo, Natalie Reis has won several awards and honors, including for the Society and Culture Research Fund and the Quebec Council for Arts and Letters. She has already exhibited her work in several solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Montreal and Toronto Biennales, Centre Plein Sud (Longueuil, Quebec) and at VOLTA NY (New York).

COLLECTIONS

Fasken Martineau (Montréal, Canada)
Giverny Capital (Montréal, Canada)

Curriculum Vitae

Video Portrait

Exhibitions

Cas de figure

Evergon, Natalie Reis, Natascha Niederstrass, Richard Mill
November 22 - December 20, 2014

Entrelacs

Elmyna Bouchard, Julie Ouellet, Marie-Claude Bouthillier, Martinet & Texereau, Natalie Reis, Nikola Röthemeyer
July 5 - August 23, 2014

Compendium

Natalie Reis
February 22 - March 29, 2014

Éponymies

Alex McLeod, Clint Griffin, Mathieu Lévesque, Max Wyse, Michel Daigneault, Natalie Reis, Nathalie Grimard, Scott Everingham, Sylvain Bouthillette
June 11 - August 20, 2011

Extreme Painting

Cécile Ronc, Clint Griffin, James Olley, Natalie Reis, Nicolas Fleming
June 5 - August 15, 2010

Féminin Pluriel

Elmyna Bouchard, Julie Voyce, Natalie Reis
January 16 - February 13, 2010

Press

  • 2017. 04. 18. - Jérôme Delgado. Papier 2017, de foire en phare, Le Devoir. web | PDF
  • 2017. 01. 01. - . La Relève des Arts Imprimés 2, Atelier Circulaire. web | PDF
  • 2016. 05. 12. - Éric Clément. Natalie Reis: sérénité et racines, La Presse +. web | PDF
  • 2016. 01. 01. - . Natalie Reis, Encan MACL. PDF
  • 2015. 08. 31. - Éric Clément. ARTS VISUELS | La Collectionneuse intense, La Presse+. PDF
  • 2014. 08. 31. - James D. Campbell. Exhibition Reviews: Natalie Reis, Magenta Magazine. web
  • 2014. 07. 11. - Victoria Shinkaruk. Entrelacs Gallery Exhibit, Montréal Rampage. web
  • 2014. 03. 16. - M. Hébert. Galeries Montréal au Armory Arts Week 2014, Galeries Montréal. web | PDF
  • 2014. 03. 12. - Bill Clarke. Report: Canadian Art Highlights at the New York Fairs, Canadian art. web | PDF
  • 2014. 03. 05. - Normand Babin. Deux visions féminines sur la voix des femmes à la galerie Trois Points, Montréalistement. web | PDF
  • 2014. 02. 25. - Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher. Un filon en art contemporain, je suis féministe. web | PDF
  • 2014. 02. 22. - James D. Campbell. Natalie Reis, Magenta Magazine. web | PDF
  • 2014. 02. 21. - Rachel Levine. Natalie Reis Faces Down the Pink Elephant in the Room, Montreal Rampage. web | PDF
  • 2014. 01. 01. - . Quality reigns in VOLTA NY’s stellar seventh edition, ArtDaily. web | PDF
  • 2013. 03. 09. - Réal Lussier. La jeune peinture et ses collectionneurs, Plein Sud . PDF
  • 2011. 04. 30. - Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre. Natalie Reis, Toxic Cornucopia, esse. web | PDF
  • 2010. 01. 21. - Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite. The shadow of an “ism”, The McGill Daily. PDF
  • 2009. 05. 01. - Bettina Forget. Vanda Daftari & Natalie Reis, CIAC. web | PDF
  • 2009. 03. 01. - James D. Campbell. The Dark side of our Culture, ETC. web | PDF
  • 2009. 01. 21. - Bettina Forget. Dismebered Members, Belgo Report. web | PDF
  • 2008. 09. 08. - . Usine C expose Natalie Reis, Usine C. PDF
  • 2008. 06. 12. - David Silverberg. Drop till you shop, Now Magazine. web | PDF
  • 2008. 05. 15. - Kalli Anderson. Shopdrop and Roll, This Magazine. web | PDF
  • 2007. 01. 01. - Peter Behrens. Sun Life, Maisonneuve. PDF
  • 2005. 01. 01. - Shelley Potzold . Cowgirls and Penises #3, Echo Kitchener. PDF
  • 2003. 10. 07. - Kathy Acimovic. VAV-OOM This week at the VAV, The Link. PDF