Education

2007 MFA Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2004 BA Photography, Bard College, Annandale, NY

Selected Exhibitions

2016

When We Think Of Tourists, The Open Aperture, Newport, RI.

2015

Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, New York, NY.

2014

Group Show 42: Occultisms, Humble Arts Foundation, digital exhibition.

Quality of Life, Bosi Contemporary, New York, NY.

The Last Brucennial, New York, NY.

2013

Girls Just Want to Have Funds, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY.

Cutouts, The Spence School, New York, NY.

2012

Capricious Magazine Benefit, Martos Gallery, New York, NY.

Earth, Air, Fire, Water, The Dependent Art Fair, Shandaken Projects, New York, NY.

Brucennial 2012: Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer, New York, NY.

2011

Their Wonderlands, curated by They Are Here, Midlands Art Center, Birmingham, UK.

If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?, Lisa Ruyter Galerie, Vienna, Austria.

Their Wonderlands, curated by They Are Here, Grey Area, Brighton, UK.

2010

Secrets, curated by Skye Parrott and Alec Friedman, Space 1520, Los Angeles, CA.

Spring Fever, Shangri-la Studio, Brooklyn, NY.

Lucky Draw 2010, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY.

The Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, New York, NY.

2009

Mine But Not Me, Miami, FL.

It Ain’t Fair, OHWOW, Miami, FL.

2009 Benefit Gala Exhibition, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. Lucky Draw 2009, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY.

Site Seeing: Explorations of the Landscape, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.

2008

Cutouts, Real Artways, Hartford, CT.

Naivete, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY.

My Other Nature, The Camera Club of New York, NY.

Dark Fair, Swiss Institute, New York, NY.

Lucky Draw 2008, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY.

31 under 31: Young Women in Art Photography, curated by Humble Arts Foundation, The Gallery at 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY.

The number 10, 10 East 76th street, New York, NY.

2007

Holiday Shopping Show, curated by Robin Kahn and Kirby Gookin, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY.

In the Dirt: Young Photographers Rethinking the Human Relationship to the Contemporary Landscape, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Yale MFA Thesis Show, Danziger Projects, New York, NY.

Artists Swap Meet for Ooga Booga LA, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA. Yale MFA Thesis Show, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT.

Lucky Draw 2007, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY.

Contemporary Views of the American Landscape, The Camera Club of New York, NY.

M*A*S*H*, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart and Omar Lopez-Chahoud, New York, NY.

2006

Lucky Draw 2006, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY.

The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY.

2005

A Walk in the Park, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY.

Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY.

Handmade, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY.

2004

Cutouts, The Spence School, New York, NY.

Holiday Shopping, curated by Robin Kahn and Kirby Gookin, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY.

Art and Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers, Art and Commerce, New York, NY.

Awards and Grants

2015 Capa Grand Prize, Runner Up, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary

2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant

2004 Senior Merit Award, Bard College

2002-2004 Photography Advisory Board Scholarship, Bard College

Press and Publications

Bosi Contemporary, “Now more than ever.” Quality of Life Exhibition Catalogue, 2014.

Huge Magazine, “The Nine Artists,” January 2013.

ArtReview Magazine, “Snapshot: Reka Reisinger,” November 2009.

The Center for Photography at Woodstock, 2009 Benefit Gala Catalogue, 2009.

The Humble Arts Foundation, “The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography,” 2009.

Megan Driscoll, Big Red and Shiny, “Reka Reisinger at Real Artways,” Issue #89, August 2008.

Amy Smith-Stewart, Greater New York Exhibition Catalogue, 2006.

Dushko Petrovich, N+1, “A Five Part Review of Greater New York 2005,” Spring 2005.

Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, “At P.S. 1 Few Artists Are Ready to Graduate,” May 2005.

Teaching, Talks and Lectures

2017

Visiting Professor, Transmedia Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

2015

Visiting Artist, Photography Department, Brown University, Providence, RI.

Visiting Artist, Photography Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

2014

Visiting Artist, Photography Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

2008

Artist Lecture, Real Artways, Hartford, CT.