Reid Masselink
92 rue Gambetta
77780 Bourron-Marlotte
FRANCE
reidmasselink@gmail.com
www.reidmasselink.com
+33 6 14 58 11 89
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
MFA 2009 Painting New York Academy of Art
BA 1997 Art Studio The Colorado College (cum laude)
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Altitudes Artistiques, group show, Chateau de Villa, Sierre, Switzerland, 4 February - 30 April
2022 Quand la nature nous parle, group show, Espace Commines, Paris, 24-27 November
2022 Artistes Animaliers Contemporains, group show, Salle des Plages, Thomery, 14-23 October
2022 La Tour du Ganne, Grandeur et Decline, group show, La Prieure, Grez sur Loing, 10-11, 17-18 September
2022 Sentir la Nature, solo show, Galerie Motte Masselink, Paris, 30 March - 7 May
2021 Peindre les indiens, group show, Barbizon, France, 17 September - 3 October
2021 12eme biennal "L'art et la mateiere," group show, St. Pierre les Nemours, France, 27 - 29 August
2021 Paysages, solo show, Centre d'Ecotourisme, Gorges de Franchard, France, 6 May - 9 July
2021 Le Mare aux Fées, solo show, L'Empreinte librairie - galerie, May - July
2020 Fais ta valise et pars, group show, Galerie l'Empreinte, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 15 July - 5 September
2020 Salon René Clement Bayer, Grange aux Dimes, Samoreau, France, 14-15 March
2019 The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, 3-6 October
2019 Arbres, group show, La Petite Galerie, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 22-23 June
2019 Oil and Stone, Group show, Hôtel de l'Aigle Noir, Fontainebleau, France, 7-9 June
2019 Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, featured artist: Galerie Nathalie Motte, 27 March - 1 April
2019 Reid Masselink New Paintings, SOLO show, Galerie Nathalie Motte, Paris France, 15 February - 19 April
2019 Arbres ! Group show, Galerie L'Empreinte, Bourron-Marlotte, France 13 February - 5 May
2019 Rosa Bonheur, peintre animalière, les artistes de son epoque et d'aujourdhui, Montereau, France, 9-17 February
2018 Salon des artistes animaliers contemporains, Musée Départemental des Peintres de Barbizon, Barbizon, France, 10 November - 2 December
2018 Carnet de Promenade, Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Atelier Delort, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 15-16 September
2018 Salon Zürcher, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY, 30 April-6 May
2018 Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, featured artist: Galerie Nathalie Motte, 20-26 March
2018 32eme Salon des Arts Plastiques René Clement-Bayer, 10-18 March, Samoreau, France, invitée d'honneur
2017 59eme Salon d'Art de Veneux-Les Sablons, 10-19 November, Veneux-Les Sablons, France
2017 85eme Salon Artistique d'Etampes, 29 September - 11 October, Etampes, France
2017 Peindre (dans) la nature aujourdhui, SOLO show, Festival de l'Histoire de l'Art, Galerie Artfountainebleau, Fontainebleau, France, 2-4 June
2017 FIAAC, Pouilly-sur-Loire, France, 28 April - 1 May
2017 Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, featured artist: Galerie Nathalie Motte, 22-27 March
2017 Salon René Clement Bayer, Samoreau, France, 11-19 March
2016 Tableaux Recents, Galerie Nathalie Motte, Paris, France, 1-23 December
2016 Nature Morte ?, La Petite Cormier, Montigny-sur-Loing, France, 11 May – 25 June
2016 Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, featured artist: Galerie Nathalie Motte, 29 March – 4 April
2015 La Petite Galerie, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 7-28 November
2015 Toute est metaphorique, SOLO show, Galerie Nathalie Motte, Paris, France, 18 June-23 July
2015 Le Centre Pedagogique Forestier du Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France, 21-22 March 2015
2014 SAUVAGES !, Espace Jean Renoir, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 17-25 September
2013 Salon International du Livre Anciens, Estampes, et Dessins, Grand Palais, featured artist, Galerie Nathalie Motte, 25-28 April
2012 Beauté Complexe, SOLO show, Galerie Nathalie Motte, Paris, France, 9 October - 17 November
2012 Salon International du Livre Anciens, Estampes, et Dessins, Grand Palais, featured artist, Galerie Nathalie Motte, 27-29 April
2011 Salon International du Livre Anciens, Estampes, et Dessins, Grand Palais, featured artist, Galerie Nathalie Motte, 29 April-1 May
2010 From Start to Finish, SOLO show, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI 3 June – 31 August
2009 ARTPRIZE, group show, various locations, Grand Rapids, MI, 23 September-10 October
2009 A Figurative Reconstruction, MFA thesis show, New York Academy of Art, 12-24 May
2009 First Impressions, Group show, New York Academy of Art, April-May
2009 Places and Spaces without Faces, Group show, New York Academy of Art, January-March
2008 LANDeSCAPE, Group show, So4th, Brooklyn, NY, 25 September to 28 October
2008 Master Drawings New York 2008, Group Show, Nathalie Motte / Kate Ganz Ltd., New York, NY, 18-26 January
2008 Procedere ~ An Emerging Artist Series, SOLO show, Chapel Arts Center, St. Anselm College, New Hampshire, 30 March – 5 May
2006 Bridge Art Fair, Miami, Florida, Gebben Gray Gallery, featured artist, 7-10 December
2005 Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers des Artistes de Montreuil, Group show, Montreuil, France
2004 Landscapes: Paintings and Drawings, SOLO show, Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, Michigan, August-September
2004 Festival 2004, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June-July
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021 Society for Progress, artist chosen to create seven paintings for the Society for Progress Awards
2020 Prix de la ville Fontainebleau
2018 Prix de la village de Machault
2018 Society for Progress, artist chosen to create seven paintings for the Society for Progress Awards
2018 Prix de la ville Acheres la Foret
2017 Prix René Clement Bayer
2017 Prix Assemblée Nationale
2016 Society for Progress, artist chosen to paint seven works to accompany the Innagural Society for Progress Awards
2015 Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan, USA, Artist-in-Residence, 29 August - 19 September
LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS
2017 Couleur et Lumiere en Nature et Art, Lecture, Centre d'Ecotourisme de Franchard, Reserve du Biosphere du Fontainebleau et Gatinais, 7 October
2015 Color and Light in Nature and Art, lecture, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park Visitor Center, 17 September
2014 Colorado College, Lectures on Color Theory in Nature and Art
2010 Guest speaker to Holland Friends of Art, Holland, MI, lecture on “Techniques of the Old Masters: What can we learn from them?"
2006 Guest speaker at the Holland Museum, Holland, MI, lecture on “The International Art Market,” 27 July 2006
2001 Co-Author of Northern European Old Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, 2001, a scholarly catalogue of eighty-three old master drawings and oil sketches dating from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Written for the gallery Haboldt & Co. (Paris and New York)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Côté Paris, "Fontainebleau, l'Appel Creatif de la Forêt," pp. 138-159, No. 69, julliet - aout 2020
Fontainebleau: Foret des passions, 52 minute long documentary film by Les Amis de la Forêt and the Office National des Forêts, interview with Reid Masselink, http://www.chlorofilm.fr/realisations/teaser-documentaire-fontainebleau-foret-de-passions.html
"Reid Masselink, un Américain à Samoreau," La Republique de Seine-et-Marne, 19 March 2018, p. 30
“Naturellement Beau,” Coté Ouest, October-November 2012, no. 102, p. 50
“The Fab Five,” The Holland Sentinel, p. C1, 3 June 2010
“Artprize inspires global competition,” The Holland Sentinel, p. D1, 17 September 2009
“Artist-art dealer’s life exceeds expectations,” The Grand Rapids Press, p. N1, 23 July 2006
“Speaker to Discuss International Art Dealing,” The Holland Sentinel, 27 July 2006
Irwin Shelly, “The Morning Show,” WGVU radio, live interview, 25 August 2004
“Landscape Exhibit to Open Friday,” The Holland Sentinel, p. D10, 26 August 2004
Van Mell, Helen, “Friends of Art Exhibit Name Winners,” The Holland Sentinel, p. D7, 17 July 1997
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Visiting Lecturer in Painting and Color Theory, 20 January-12 February
2012 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Taught Introduction to Watercolor, 24 May - 15 June 2012
2011 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Taught Introduction to Watercolor, 14 July – 5 August 2011
2010 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Taught Color Theory, 17 June – 9 July 2010
2009-2010 Instructor of Painting and Drawing at the Holland Area Arts Council, Holland MI, September - May
2009 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Taught Color Theory, 20 July - 7 August 2009
2008 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Taught Introduction to Drawing, 9-27 June 2008