Carol Reed
Carol Reed
Carol Reed

Carol Reed

BiographyCarol Reed’s background in art includes an undergraduate degree in art education and fine art, plus a master’s degree in design. Additionally, she holds an MFA in studio painting and printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She was Assistant Professor of Design at the University of Alberta, Canada, before joining the staff of the Smithsonian Institution in educational travel and museum outreach. As a cultural heritage and communications consultant for the World Bank, she designed exhibitions and education programs to help put a public face on cultural partnerships.

Reed’s extensive international travel has influenced and informed the art she makes, and her work has been included in group and solo exhibitions in the US and abroad, including exhibitions in Brunei; Seville, Spain; Bujumbura, Burundi; and Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2007, she lived and worked in the Indian Subcontinent as a Fulbright scholar. In 2008, the American Center in New Delhi hosted her solo exhibition of 32 paintings. In 2016, she had solo exhibitions in Washington, DC, at Susan Calloway Fine Arts and the Arts Club of Washington. Her work is included in over thirty public, corporate, and private collections including the United States Department of State, The Library of Congress, The World Bank and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Reed lives and works in Alexandria, Virginia.

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