Caris Reid is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her work is an ethereal, symbolic world of blooming flowers, mirrored birds, and hypnotic ripples. Influenced by her interest in mysticism, the California landscape, queer ecology and meditation, the paintings feel both familiar and mysterious. Each subject represents the nexus between the physical world and the spiritual world. Every detail is coded and ripe with meaning, an invitation to commune with the subconscious.

BORN
Washington D.C. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

EDUCATION
2005 B.F.A. Boston University, Cum Laude

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS 

 2024 The Listening World, with Bianca Nemelc at Louis Buhl. Detroit, MI
2022 Too Much to Dream, Over the Influence Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Subrosa at Denny Gallery, New York, NY
 2017 Mount of Venus with Elise Ferguson, Monya Rowe Gallery, Saint Augustine, FL
 2017 Healer. Feeler. Seer. Seen.  Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
 2016 Time & Tide, with Amanda Valdez, Denny Gallery, NY
 2015 Diamond Seat, with Amanda Valdez, Circuit12 Gallery, Dallas, TX

 GROUP SHOWS

2025 Step and Repeat, curated by Nancy Meyer and John Weston, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 How The Trees See The Stars curated by Aaron Johnson at Gana Art, Los Angeles, CA
2024 When We All Vote, curated by Art for Change, at Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Fully Bloomed, Phillips LA curated by Art for Change, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Outside In, Gallery Chiao X Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 Biscayne curated by Katherine Fleming at Kampong Botanical Garden, Miami, FL
2023 Boundless with Over the Influence Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2023 Dallas Art Fair with Over the Influence Gallery, Dallas TX
2022 Awakened Voices with Over the Influence Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2022 Impact: L.A. for Choice 2022, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Art Central Hong Kong with Over the Influence Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2022 Dallas Art Fair with Over the Influence Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2022 Expo Chicago with Art for Change, Chicago Illinois
2022 Thaw at The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Intersect Art Fair, with Over The Influence Gallery. Palm Springs, CA
2020 A Peripheral Reverie, curated by Sophie Penske and Alex Rojas. Montecito, CA
2020 Spring Break Art Fair, curated by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori. Los Angeles, CA
2019 Harvest, hosted by Chashama, curated by Sildel & McElwreath, New York, NY
2019 Spring Break Art Fair, with curator Sarah Potter and Caroline Larson. New York, NY
 2019 YIN/YANG at 0-0 curated by Calli Moore, Los Angeles, LA.
2018 Sweet Cheeks, Big Pictures LA, curated by Melanie Faure, Los Angeles, LA.
2018 Spring Break Art Fair, with curator Sarah Potter. New York, NY.
2017 Does It Make A Sound, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID.
 2017 Unquestionable Optimism, curated by Lindsay Howard. The Barn, East Hampton, NY.
 2017 Home at Monya Rowe Gallery, Saint Augustine, FL
 2016 UNTITLED Art Fair, Denny Gallery with Justine Hill and Nikolai Ishchuk. Miami, FL
 2016 The City and The City, Denny Gallery's Project Space. New York, NY
 2016 Equinox, The Willows, curated by Emily Weiner & Sharona Eliassaf. Brooklyn, NY
 2015 Suddenly, Last Summer. Longhouse Projects. Curated by Nicole Will and Paul Metrinko. New York, NY
 2015  The Ocean is Double Sided.  SEASON,  Seattle, WA
 2014 Sargent’s Daughters at Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
 2014 Bird's of Paradise, Dossier Outpost, New York, NY.
 2013 Typhoon Haiyan Relief, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
 2012 Black Lodge, Interstate Projects, New York, NY
 2012 Secret, The Secret Space, curated by Keren Richter and Nanse Kawashima. Brooklyn, NY
 2011 Visible Alternatives, Festival of Ideas, The New Museum, New York, NY
 2011 The Sultans Played Creole, Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX
 2011 All That is Unseen, Allan Nederpelt, Brooklyn, NY
 2010 Cleopatra’s Presents, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York, NY
 2010 Autosuggestion, Dossier Journal Pop-up Space, New York, NY
 2010 Mouthful of Poison, Ramiken Crucible, curated by Isaac Lyles and Mike Egan, New York, NY
 2010, Behind the Green Door, DNA Gallery, Providence, RI
 2010 7:10, National Arts Club, New York, NY
 2009 Objective Affection, BOFFO, Brooklyn, NY
 2009 Keep Calm, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
 2008 Zufalls Variablen, Berlin, Germany
 2006 Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
 2005 Boston Drawing Projects, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
 2001  Young Masters, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX


AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

Print Editions Program, Wassaic Projects. Wassaic, New York.
100 West Corsicana, January Resident, Corsicana, TX
Many Mini Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
Takt Kunstprojektraum Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany

2001-2005 Merit Scholarship Boston University
2001-2005 Alumni Scholarship Boston University

CURATED SHOWS

All That Is Unseen, co-curated with Meg O’Rourke, Allen Nederpelt, Brooklyn NY
Autosuggestion, Dossier Journal Pop-up Space, New York, NY