Rob Reynolds is a Los Angeles based artist working in painting, sculpture, sound, video and AR, with recent projects traversing the analog and digital, investigating being, perception and the ecological with a recent focus on the Arctic in the popular imagination. Rob travelled extensively with earth scientists in the Arctic during the summer of 2023 with support of a National Science Foundation grant, gathering images for an ongoing multi-disciplinary project titled A Fragile Absolute.

Upcoming exhibitions include: Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Sept. 15- January 15th 2025, part of the Getty Museum PST:ART Art and Science Collide initiative, traveling to the Rice University Moody Center for the Arts in January 2025.  Recent installations include Double Iceberg for Berkeley, Transformations of the Human, Berkeley, California; Icebergs and Suns, Mignoni Gallery, NY; Overview, a solo show at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco; The Word for Weather is Knowledge, a  single channel video installation filmed in Ilulissat, Greenland and exhibited in Emergency on Planet Earth at UTA Artists Space, Los Angeles and Paris Photo Grand Palais, Paris, France; Meanwhile, a four-channel video installation on Sunset Blvd. billboards in Los Angeles; Vanishing Point at LAXART; and Just Add Water at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. 

Reynolds’ work is in numerous public and private collections, including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; LAXART; the RISD Museum and Brown University. Rob was recently a Berggruen Institute Artist Fellow. Reviews of his work and his writing have been published in Artforum, The L.A. Review of Books, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and elsewhere. Teaching is integral to his overall practice, and over the past decade he has taught seminars in studio art and critical theory, serving on the faculty at Sierra Nevada/University of Nevada MFA Interdisciplinary Art program, lecturing at USC and UCLA; teaching previously at Brown and Harvard.  He is a graduate of Brown University (Art and Semiotics 90’) and The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (92’).