Laurie Reid was born in Minneapolis, MN and grew up in Eugene, Oregon. She received her BA in French Literature from Reed College and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts in Oakland/San Francisco. Laurie has taught painting and Drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute and has been a Studio Advisor in the Graduate Fine Arts Program at the California College of the Arts. Laurie has shown her work extensively on both the West and East Coasts. Her work can be found in many museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and De Young Museum in San Francisco and the National Gallery in Washington, DC. She lives and works in Berkeley and Oakland, CA
