<strong>Benji Reid</strong>, <em>Going Home</em> (detail), 2019. Giclée Print, 80 x 80 cm. Ed. of 6.<h2>BENJI REID<br>LAUGH AT GRAVITY CATALOGUE</h2>Available From Our Store, £10 + P&P<strong>Benji Reid</strong>, <em>Untied</em> (detail), 2019. Giclée Print, 80 x 80 cm. Ed. of 8.<strong>Benji Reid</strong>, <em>Moon on a Cloud</em> (detail), 2019. Giclée print, 100 x 100 cm. Ed. of 8.

BENJI REID

Benji Reid.
Photo: © the Artist, 2018.
Benji Reid, Things I've Imagined, 2019. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta, 60 x 60 cm. Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.


Benji Reid’s vision as Performer and Creative Director has made him an Award Winning and senior contributor to the Black Physical Theatre canon over the last 30 years. Having produced and performed over 30 works for international cultural institutions led by The National Theatre, Birmingham Rep, PS122 (New York) and Sydney Opera House.

Merging his performance success with photography, Reid began producing images in 2012. Benji’s workwas exhibited as part of Get Up, Stand Up Now at Somerset House, June 2019. His works have also been shown in MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts), New York, as part of the 2019 exhibition Styles of ResistanceFrom the Corner to the Catwalk. Reid’s first solo show A Thousand Words was exhibited at Contact Theatre, Manchester in 2016.

Reid considers himself a Choreo-Photolist; a practice where theatricality, choreography and photography meet in a single or series of images. His photography is a means to set up hyper-realities, conversations and to curate curiosities. Reid wants to move his generation - a hip-hop generation to take a road less travelled. So, within his virtual walls, we find reviews, archives, new works and even works-in-progress. They have a singular aim which is to inform the audience, about that which has informed and inspired him to action. Whether it is about an outsider, failed familial relationships, or suicide, he wants the audience to be a part of the process and the product.

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BENJI REID

Selected solo exhibitions
2021   Benji Reid; Laugh at Gravity, October Gallery, London, UK
2020   Benji Reid; Laugh at Gravity, Online preview with October Gallery, London, UK
2016   A Thousand Words, Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK
Selected group exhibitions
2024   Transvangarde: Free Style Cipher, October Gallery, London, UK
2022   In the Light: Photographic works by James Barnor, Benji Reid, Alexis Peskine and Zana Masombuka, October Gallery, London, UK
Fayre Share Fayre, A Modest Show, Whitworth, Manchester, UK
2021   Shadow to Substance, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Florida, USA
Photo London
, with October Gallery, London, UK
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, Online with October Gallery, London, UK
50 Windows of Creativity, The National Football Museum, Manchester, UK  
2020   1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, with October Gallery, London, UK
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, Online with October Gallery, London, UK 
Atmospheres; Artists of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa, with October Gallery, London, UK
2019   Get Up, Stand Up Now, Somerset House, London, UK
AKAA (Also Known As Africa), Paris, France with October Gallery, London, UK
Styles of Resistance: From the Corner to the Catwalk, MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts), New York, USA

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