Reid Masselink
92 rue Gambetta
77780 Bourron-Marlotte
FRANCE
reidmasselink@gmail.com
www.reidmasselink.com
+33 6 14 58 11 89
 
 
CURRICULUM VITAE
 
 
 
EDUCATION
 
MFA 2009 Painting New York Academy of Art
 
BA 1997 Art Studio The Colorado College (cum laude)
 
 
EXHIBITIONS

2022 Quand la nature nous parle, group show, Espace Commines, Paris, 24-27 November

2022 Artistes Animaliers Contemporains, group show, Salle des Plages, Thomery, 14-23 October

2022 La Tour du Ganne, Grandeur et Decline, group show, La Prieure, Grez sur Loing, 10-11, 17-18 September

2022 Sentir la Nature, solo show, Galerie Motte Masselink, Paris, 30 March - 7 May

2021 Peindre les indiens, group show, Barbizon, France, 17 September - 3 October

2021 12eme biennal "L'art et la mateiere," group show, St. Pierre les Nemours, France, 27 - 29 August 

2021 Paysages, solo show, Centre d'Ecotourisme, Gorges de Franchard, France, 6 May - 9 July

2021 Le Mare aux Fées, solo show, L'Empreinte librairie - galerie, May - July

2020 Fais ta valise et pars, group show, Galerie l'Empreinte, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 15 July - 5 September

2020 Salon René Clement Bayer, Grange aux Dimes, Samoreau, France, 14-15 March

2019 The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, 3-6 October

2019 Arbres, group show, La Petite Galerie, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 22-23 June

2019 Oil and Stone, Group show, Hôtel de l'Aigle Noir, Fontainebleau, France, 7-9 June

2019 Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, featured artist: Galerie Nathalie Motte, 27 March - 1 April

2019 Reid Masselink New Paintings, SOLO show, Galerie Nathalie Motte, Paris France, 15 February - 19 April

2019 Arbres ! Group show, Galerie L'Empreinte, Bourron-Marlotte, France 13 February - 5 May

2019 Rosa Bonheur, peintre animalière, les artistes de son epoque et d'aujourdhui, Montereau, France, 9-17 February

2018 Salon des artistes animaliers contemporains, Musée Départemental des Peintres de Barbizon, Barbizon, France, 10 November - 2 December

2018 Carnet de Promenade, Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Atelier Delort, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 15-16 September

2018 Salon Zürcher, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY, 30 April-6 May

2018 Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, featured artist: Galerie Nathalie Motte, 20-26 March

2018 32eme Salon des Arts Plastiques René Clement-Bayer, 10-18 March, Samoreau, France, invitée d'honneur

2017 59eme Salon d'Art de Veneux-Les Sablons, 10-19 November, Veneux-Les Sablons, France

2017 85eme Salon Artistique d'Etampes, 29 September - 11 October, Etampes, France

2017 Peindre (dans) la nature aujourdhui, SOLO show, Festival de l'Histoire de l'Art, Galerie Artfountainebleau, Fontainebleau, France, 2-4 June

2017 FIAAC, Pouilly-sur-Loire, France, 28 April - 1 May

2017 Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, featured artist: Galerie Nathalie Motte, 22-27 March

2017 Salon René Clement Bayer, Samoreau, France, 11-19 March

2016 Tableaux Recents, Galerie Nathalie Motte, Paris, France, 1-23 December

2016 Nature Morte ?, La Petite Cormier, Montigny-sur-Loing, France, 11 May – 25 June

2016 Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, featured artist: Galerie Nathalie Motte, 29 March – 4 April
 
2015 La Petite Galerie, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 7-28 November

2015 Toute est metaphorique, SOLO show, Galerie Nathalie Motte, Paris, France, 18 June-23 July

2015 Le Centre Pedagogique Forestier du Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France, 21-22 March 2015

2014 SAUVAGES !, Espace Jean Renoir, Bourron-Marlotte, France, 17-25 September

2013 Salon International du Livre Anciens, Estampes, et Dessins, Grand Palais, featured artist, Galerie Nathalie Motte, 25-28 April

2012  Beauté Complexe, SOLO show, Galerie Nathalie Motte, Paris, France, 9 October - 17 November

2012  Salon International du Livre Anciens, Estampes, et Dessins, Grand Palais, featured artist, Galerie Nathalie Motte, 27-29 April

2011 Salon International du Livre Anciens, Estampes, et Dessins, Grand Palais, featured artist, Galerie Nathalie Motte, 29 April-1 May
 
2010 From Start to Finish, SOLO show, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI 3 June – 31 August
 
2009 ARTPRIZE, group show, various locations, Grand Rapids, MI, 23 September-10 October
 
2009 A Figurative Reconstruction, MFA thesis show, New York Academy of Art, 12-24 May
 
2009 First Impressions, Group show, New York Academy of Art, April-May
 
2009 Places and Spaces without Faces, Group show, New York Academy of Art, January-March
 
2008 LANDeSCAPE, Group show, So4th, Brooklyn, NY, 25 September to 28 October
 
2008 Master Drawings New York 2008, Group Show, Nathalie Motte / Kate Ganz Ltd.,  New York, NY, 18-26 January
 
2008 Procedere ~ An Emerging Artist Series, SOLO show, Chapel Arts Center, St. Anselm College, New Hampshire, 30 March – 5 May
 
2006 Bridge Art Fair, Miami, Florida, Gebben Gray Gallery, featured artist, 7-10 December
 
2005 Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers des Artistes de Montreuil, Group show, Montreuil, France
 
2004 Landscapes: Paintings and Drawings, SOLO show, Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, Michigan, August-September
 
2004  Festival 2004, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June-July
 
 
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
 
2021 Society for Progress, artist chosen to create seven paintings for the Society for Progress Awards

2020 Prix de la ville Fontainebleau

2018 Prix de la village de Machault

2018 Society for Progress, artist chosen to create seven paintings for the Society for Progress Awards

2018 Prix de la ville Acheres la Foret

2017 Prix René Clement Bayer

2017 Prix Assemblée Nationale

2016 Society for Progress, artist chosen to paint seven works to accompany the Innagural Society for Progress Awards
 
2015 Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan, USA, Artist-in-Residence, 29 August - 19 September
 

LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS

2017 Couleur et Lumiere en Nature et Art, Lecture, Centre d'Ecotourisme de Franchard, Reserve du Biosphere du Fontainebleau et Gatinais, 7 October

2015 Color and Light in Nature and Art, lecture, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park Visitor Center, 17 September

2014 Colorado College, Lectures on Color Theory in Nature and Art
 
2010 Guest speaker to Holland Friends of Art, Holland, MI, lecture on “Techniques of the Old Masters: What can we learn from them?"
 
2006  Guest speaker at the Holland Museum, Holland, MI, lecture on “The International Art Market,” 27 July 2006
 
2001  Co-Author of Northern European Old Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, 2001, a scholarly catalogue of eighty-three old master drawings and oil sketches dating from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Written for the gallery Haboldt & Co. (Paris and New York) 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
 
Côté Paris, "Fontainebleau, l'Appel Creatif de la Forêt," pp. 138-159, No. 69, julliet - aout 2020

Fontainebleau: Foret des passions, 52 minute long documentary film by Les Amis de la Forêt and the Office National des Forêts, interview with Reid Masselink, http://www.chlorofilm.fr/realisations/teaser-documentaire-fontainebleau-foret-de-passions.html

"Reid Masselink, un Américain à Samoreau," La Republique de Seine-et-Marne, 19 March 2018, p. 30

“Naturellement Beau,” Coté Ouest, October-November 2012, no. 102, p. 50
 
“The Fab Five,” The Holland Sentinel, p. C1, 3 June 2010
 
“Artprize inspires global competition,” The Holland Sentinel, p. D1, 17 September 2009
 
“Artist-art dealer’s life exceeds expectations,” The Grand Rapids Press, p. N1, 23 July 2006
 
“Speaker to Discuss International Art Dealing,” The Holland Sentinel, 27 July 2006
 
Irwin Shelly, “The Morning Show,” WGVU radio, live interview, 25 August 2004
 
“Landscape Exhibit to Open Friday,” The Holland Sentinel, p. D10, 26 August 2004
 
 Van Mell, Helen, “Friends of Art Exhibit Name Winners,” The Holland Sentinel, p. D7, 17 July 1997


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 
2014 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Visiting Lecturer in Painting and Color Theory, 20 January-12 February
 
2012 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Taught Introduction to Watercolor, 24 May - 15 June 2012
 
2011 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.  Taught Introduction to Watercolor, 14 July – 5 August 2011
 
2010 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.  Taught Color Theory, 17 June – 9 July 2010
 
2009-2010 Instructor of Painting and Drawing at the Holland Area Arts Council, Holland MI, September - May
 
2009 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.  Taught Color Theory, 20 July - 7 August 2009
 
2008 Visiting Professor of Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.  Taught Introduction to Drawing, 9-27 June 2008