Jocelyn Reid ( she/her )

As reinventions of everyday items, my work highlights the extraordinary nature of the mundane. My research centers around the inanimate and often low-cost things that do work for us as humans. Childhood items, familiar structures, and ephemeral objects all hold weight, emotional or otherwise. I find interest in the translation of these objects into new materials: by re-creating them, I question where their value is generated or lost. I am interested in re-applying rules - rendering soft as hard, making sharp seem dull, and manifesting common as precious. As an artist, I subvert the physical and psychological value of our objects to reimagine our everyday trappings.

-- Jocelyn Reid

Jocelyn Reid is a ceramic and mixed media artist from Treaty 7 Territory in Canada. She holds a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. Reid’s work highlights the extraordinary nature of the mundane by re-creating familiar objects, childhood items, and banal structures. She has exhibited work in North America, Taiwan, and Europe, and was the 2021 recipient of the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. Reid has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre, the Vermont Studio Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center. She makes pizza every Friday.