Reinhard Reitzenstein

SCORE: Tree

REINHARD REITZENSTEIN was born in Uelzen, Germany in 1949. He studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada. He is based in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada and Buffalo, NY, USA.

Reitzenstein’s work has consistently taken him into processes exploring ways to interconnect nature, culture, science and technology. His work crosses several disciplines: indoor installation and sculpture, photography, digitally processed images; large-scale drawings; outdoor tree-based installations and sound art. Reitzenstein has held over one hundred solo exhibitions and participated in some 300 group exhibitions in North America and abroad. He has completed more than twenty public art commissions along with numerous private commissions.

His work is represented in over 50 public and corporate collections internationally, like the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the University of Toronto. He is currently an Associate Professor at SUNY Buffalo, where he has been the Director of the Sculpture Program since 2000.

He is represented by the Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada and Indigo Art, in Buffalo, NY.