Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke was born in the Ottawa Valley in 1963. He received his BFA from York University in 1984 and his MFA from NSCAD in 1995. During the 1990s he was active in Toronto's artist-run centres, most particularly YYZ and Pleasure Dome. He has taught at the University of Western Ontario, Cal Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and the University of Illinois Chicago. He is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. He has an extensive national and international exhibition history. Solo exhibitions include the Power Plant and Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Threadwaxing Space (New York), Argos (Brussels), Lux (London) and Gallery 400 (Chicago). Solo screenings: Museum of Modern Art (New York), National Gallery of Canada, Cinematheque Ontario, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, and many others. In 2006 he was awarded the Bell Award in Video Art. He has co-edited several books including "Lux: A Decade of Artists' Film and Video" (with Tom Taylor), "The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema" (with Chris Gehman) and "Blast Counterblast" (with Anthony Elms).
In 2004, he published "Everybody Loves Nothing: Video 1996—2004" with Coach House. A collection of his writing, "The Shimmering Beast" was published in 2011 by Coach House/Gallery 400/white walls. He is represented by Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin).
Artist Code: 345
Videography
2014, 36:32 minutes, Colour, English
Rib Gets In the Way (Final Thoughts, Series Three)
2014, 52:15 minutes, colour, English
2013, 04:09 minutes, colour, English
2012, 60:25 minutes, colour, English
A Branch is Too Big to Come Out of a Twig
2012, 08:00 minutes, colour, English
2010, 00:27 minutes, colour, English
My Name is Karlheinz Stockhausen
2010, 06:14 minutes, colour, English
2010, 06:37 minutes, colour, English
2010, 05:54 minutes, colour, English
Cartoon For Those Who Have A Certain Fondness For Ideas but Are Tired Of Thinking
2010, 02:15 minutes, colour, English
Not Torn (Asunder from the Very Start)
2010, 09:38 minutes, colour, English
2010, 05:56 minutes, colour, English
2010, 05:27 minutes, colour, English
2010, 45:24 minutes, colour, English
2010, 05:21 minutes, colour, English
2010, 06:42 minutes, colour, English
2009, 04:06 minutes, colour, English
Boy / Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein's "Narrative of a Child Analysis"
2008, 05:26 minutes, colour, English
2007, 83:00 minutes, English
Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love
2007, 14:00 minutes, English
2007, English
Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp)
2006, 04:00 minutes, colour, English
2006, 09:00 minutes, colour, English
2005, 08:00 minutes, colour, English
Anthology of American Folk Song
2004, 29:00 minutes, colour, english
2002, 07:00 minutes, colour, english
2002, 27:00 minutes, colour, english
Anal Masturbation + Object Loss
2002, 06:00 minutes, colour, english
2001, 11:00 minutes, colour, english
2001, 24:00 minutes, colour, english
1999, 23:00 minutes, colour, english
1999, 05:00 minutes, colour, english
1998, 26:00 minutes, colour, english
How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain
1998, 07:30 minutes, colour, English
1998, 10:00 minutes, colour, English
1998, 04:30 minutes, colour, english
1998, 07:15 minutes, colour, english
1996, 08:30 minutes, colour, english
Everybody Loves Nothing (Empathic Exercizes)
1996, 12:00 minutes, colour, English
Why I've Decided to Become a Painter, 100
1996, 00:42 minutes, colour, English
1996, 01:40 minutes, colour, English
1996, 06:00 minutes, colour, English
1996, 01:58 minutes, colour, English
1996, 01:48 minutes, colour, English
1996, 00:38 minutes, colour, English
1996, 01:13 minutes, colour, English
1996, 02:38 minutes, colour, English
1996, 03:20 minutes, colour, English
1996, 02:26 minutes, colour, English
1996, 02:14 minutes, colour, English
1996, 03:38 minutes, colour, English
1996, 03:15 minutes, colour, English
Children's Video Collective, 87
1996, 03:20 minutes, colour, English
1996, 05:30 minutes, colour, English
1996, 00:59 minutes, colour, English
1996, 01:38 minutes, colour, English
1996, 02:39 minutes, colour, English
1996, 00:15 minutes, colour, English
1996, 00:46 minutes, colour, English
1996, 01:18 minutes, colour, English
1996, 01:10 minutes, colour, English
1995, 03:55 minutes, colour, English
1995, 01:17 minutes, colour, English
1995, 01:34 minutes, colour, English
1995, 01:02 minutes, colour, English
1995, 04:16 minutes, colour, English
1995, 02:28 minutes, colour, English
1995, 01:05 minutes, colour, English
1995, 02:51 minutes, colour, English
1995, 04:08 minutes, English
1995, 02:06 minutes, English
1995, 02:46 minutes, English
1995, 01:36 minutes, colour, English
1995, 00:50 minutes, colour, English
1995, 00:38 minutes, colour, English
1995, 02:15 minutes, colour, English
1995, 02:35 minutes, colour, English
1995, 02:08 minutes, colour, English
1995, 00:57 minutes, colour, English
1995, 00:33 minutes, colour, English
Re-enactment of a Performance, 59
1995, 01:02 minutes, colour, English
1995, 10:37 minutes, colour, English
1995, 03:44 minutes, colour, English
1995, 01:25 minutes, colour, English
1995, 01:24 minutes, colour, English
1994, 00:56 minutes, colour, English
1994, 03:42 minutes, colour, English
1994, 02:08 minutes, colour, English
1994, 00:48 minutes, colour, English
1994, 00:43 minutes, colour, English
Monologue (with Provocation), 49.
1994, 02:51 minutes, colour, English
1994, 01:49 minutes, colour, English
1994, 02:29 minutes, colour, English
1994, 02:49 minutes, colour, English
1994, 01:36 minutes, colour, English
1994, 02:32 minutes, colour, English
1994, 05:01 minutes, colour, English
1994, 01:36 minutes, colour, English
1994, 01:13 minutes, colour, English
Understanding Heterosexuality, 40.
1994, 01:28 minutes, colour, English
1994, 01:34 minutes, colour, English
1994, 00:41 minutes, colour, English
1993, 00:41 minutes, colour, English
1993, 06:55 minutes, colour, English
Instructions for Recovering Forgotten Memories / Lamella, 35.
1993, 02:14 minutes, colour, English
1993, 02:31 minutes, colour, English
1993, 00:41 minutes, colour, English
1993, 00:52 minutes, colour, English
1993, 08:20 minutes, colour, English
1993, 03:36 minutes, colour, English
1993, 02:34 minutes, colour, English
1992, 06:47 minutes, English
1992, 06:44 minutes, English
1992, 02:43 minutes, English
1992, 01:25 minutes, English
1992, 01:03 minutes, English
Eighty Prominent Dermatologists, 23.
1992, 05:15 minutes, English
In the Realm of Perpetual Embarrassment, 22.
1992, 03:33 minutes, English
Squeezing Sorrow from an Ashtray, 21.
1992, 05:45 minutes, English
1992, 02:54 minutes, English
1992, 01:21 minutes, English
1992, 01:36 minutes, English
1992, 03:30 minutes, English
1992, 02:22 minutes, English
1992, 02:28 minutes, English
1992, 04:10 minutes, English
1992, 04:56 minutes, English
1992, 10:56 minutes, colour, English
1992, 04:01 minutes, colour, English
1992, 03:25 minutes, colour, English
1991, 02:10 minutes, English
Why I Stopped Going to Foreign Films, 8.
1991, 05:19 minutes, colour/B&W, English
1991, 02:30 minutes, colour/B&W, English
Emergence of a Democratic Memory, 6.
1991, 02:58 minutes, colour/B&W, English
1991, 06:32 minutes, colour, English
1991, 01:00 minutes, Colour, English
1991, 00:46 minutes, colour, English
1989, 03:30 minutes, Colour, English
1989, 04:31 minutes, colour, English
1985, 04:41 minutes, colour, English
1985, 04:49 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2021.
by . V tape, 2015.
by . Canadian Film Institute, 2013.
by . Toronto: Images Festival, 2013.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2012.
by . The Dark Arts: magic + intuition (curatorial incubator 6), 2009. Toronto: Vtape, 2009.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2009.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2008.
by . Toronto: Coach House Books, 2008.
by . Now, Feb. 7, 2007, v. 26, no. 22.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2007.
by . The State of The Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, 2006. Toronto: Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in publication, 2006.
by . Falling from Grace, 2006. Panabaker Gallery, McMaster Museum of Art, 2006.
by . Xtra!, Mar. 31, 2005, no. 533.
by . agYU, 2005. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2005.
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by . Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media, 2002. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
by . YYZine, Jan. 9 Winter, 2002, v. 2, no. 1.
by . Video Primer, 2001. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2001.
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by . Toronto: Vtape, 2001.
by . Lux: A Decade of Artists' Film and Video, 2000. Toronto: YYZ Books/Pleasure Dome, 2000.
by . Lux A Decade of Artists' Film and Video, 2000. Toronto: YYZ Books/Pleasure Dome, 2000.
by . LUX: A Decade of Artists' Film & Video, Fall 2000. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2000.
by . LUX: A Decade of Film and Video, 2000. Toronto: YYZ Books/Pleasure Dome, 2000.
by . LUX: A Decade of Artists' Film & Video, 2000. Toronto: YYZ books and PleasureDome, 2000.
by . Lux: A Decade of Film and Video, 2000. Toronto: YYZ and Pleasure Dome, 2000.
by . Steve Reinke, July Summer 2000, v. 12, no. 3. New York: Thread Waxing Space, 2000.
by . Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000.
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Toronto: Vtape, 1999.
by . Variant, Summer 1999, v. 2, no. 8.
Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1999.
Convergence Divergence> The Merging Film and Video, 1999. Halifax: The Atlantic Filmmakers' Cooperative, 1999.
by . I've forgotten your name, 1998. Vancouver: Anna Leonowens gallery, 1998.
by . Parachute, Oct. Winter 1997.
by . The Independent, July 1997.
by . Kingston: Agnes Eterington Art Centre, 1996.
by . Now, Dec. 28, 1995, v. 15, no. 17.
by . The Toronto Star, Apr. 27, 1995.
Beauty #2, 1995. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1995.
by . Parallelogramme, 1994, v. 20, no. 3.
by . Cinematheque Film Programme Guide, Fall 1994. Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1994.
by . Fuse, Spring 1994, v. 17, no. 3.
by . The Toronto Star, Jan. 21, 1994.