Anna Reid is a 2D artist and high school art teacher in Brooklyn, NY.
Reid uses artmaking to honor the absurd ordeal of being alive and speculate about afterlives and other worlds.
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What Happens Next
What Happens Next is a series of drawings, prints, and mixed media works that offers visual speculation into the experience of crossing into the afterlife.
The Return
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
The Unwinding
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
Tomorrow Brings
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
Every Planet We Reach is Dead
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
The Land of the Living
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
2025
graphite on paper
6x6”
Casual Power
2025
graphite on graph paper
9x12”
2025
graphite on graph paper
9x12”
Crossing
2025
graphite on graph paper
9x12”
2025
graphite on graph paper
9x12”
As If to Nowhere
2025
graphite on graph paper
9x12”
2025
graphite on graph paper
9x12”
Magnanimity
2025
mixed media collage
9x12”
2025
mixed media collage
9x12”
Swarm
2025
linocut series on paper
11x14”
2025
linocut series on paper
11x14”
Room
2024
graphite on paper
8.5x11
2024
graphite on paper
8.5x11
Beloved
Inspired by the incredible Green-Wood Cemetery, Beloved is an investigation into the symbolism and materiality of loss, memorial, and living legacies of grief.
Last Living Soul
2024
reductive woodcut made at the Lower East Side Print Shop
20x15”
2024
reductive woodcut made at the Lower East Side Print Shop
20x15”
Mother
2025
solar dye on paper
8.5x11”
2025
solar dye on paper
8.5x11”
Loved and Missed
2025
acrylic ink on paper
12x9”
2025
acrylic ink on paper
12x9”
No One to Turn to
2025
acrylic ink on cut paper collage
9x12”
2025
acrylic ink on cut paper collage
9x12”
No One to Blame
2025
acrylic ink on cut paper collage
9x12”
2025
acrylic ink on cut paper collage
9x12”
Body Script
Pulling from the legacy of Lesbian Filmmaker Barbara Hammer, Body Script employs the sense of touch as subject in order to navigate the complexities of interconnectedness.
Sanctus
2022
graphite and ink on yupo paper
11x14”
2022
graphite and ink on yupo paper
11x14”
Reach
2022
graphite and ink on yupo paper
11x14”
2022
graphite and ink on yupo paper
11x14”
Wave
2022
graphite and ink on yupo paper
11x14”
2022
graphite and ink on yupo paper
11x14”
Liquid Heat / Chest Bridge
2022
graphite and ink on yupo paper
11x14”
2022
graphite and ink on yupo paper
11x14”
Fair Game
Reclaiming a taunting nickname from childhood, Fair Game maps the experience of being objectified before getting the chance to develop bodily autonomy and self-exploration.
Fawn
2025
screenprint
on painted graph paper
9x12”
2025
screenprint
on painted graph paper
9x12”
To Stone
This series follows the process of coming into queerness by way of rejection, isolation, and searching for community.
Always Been Better
2025
graphite on paper
8.5x11”
2025
graphite on paper
8.5x11”
Flood
2022
graphite on paper
9x12”
2022
graphite on paper
9x12”
Mother’s Daughter
2019
acrylic and flashe on canvas
30 x 24 “
2019
acrylic and flashe on canvas
30 x 24 “
Something Happened
2018
flashe and oil on gessoed paper
34x24”
2018
flashe and oil on gessoed paper
34x24”