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EDUCATION

2018-2020 MFA, Photography & Image-making - Paris, France 

2013-2018 BFA, Photography & Digital Media - Houston, Texas

SOLO EXHIBITION RECORDS

2025 Don’t Cry For Me When I’m Gone, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX

2023 Billie-James, Project Row Houses, Round 55: Drive-by, Houston, TX

2021 Home-goings, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX 

2017 Mon Frère, Lawndale Art Center: Project Space, Houston, TX

GROUP EXHIBITION RECORDS

2025

transfeminisms, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2024

Con(tra) El Archivo, Filter Photo, Chicago, Illinois

Transient Vistas, FLATS, Houston, Texas

chapter 3 of transfeminisms, Mimosa House, London, UK

Becoming Visible, Online Exhibition, Autograph ABP, London, UK

2023 

“This Way”, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas

Who lit the fire?, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Against Wind and Tide, Centre les Etoiles de Jamaa El Fna, curated by Christine Eyene, Marrakech, Morocco

Der Greif : Guest Room - David Campany & Taous Dahmani

Manifold DELUXE, FF Projects,  FRIEZE : No.9 Cork Street, London, UK

The Bluest Monday, Beeldend Gesproken, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2022 

Photo Vogue Festival: NFT X Voice Residency, BASE MILANO, Milan, Italy

Manifold, FF Projects, London, UK

Love is House That Even Death Can’t Knock Down, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas

The Houston Artist Speaks Through Grids curated by Reyes Ramirez

Part of Me. . . Shaping Mental Spaces, FOTODOK, curated by Daria Tuminas, Utrecht, Netherlands 

Dak’Art, La Biennale de Dakar, Maison de la Culture Douta Seck, Dakar, Senegal 

Interference - Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2021 

The Baldwin Photographic Gallery - Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Photo Vogue Festival: Reframing History, BASE MILANO, Milan, Italy

Openwalls Arles - a collaboration between Galerie Huit Arles and 1854 Media, Arles, France 

Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

MULTI - Virtual Exhibition: Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center

Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI 

An Active and Urgent Telling, Strange Fire Collective: Gustavus Adolphus College Exhibition, St. Peter, MN 

Der Greif : Guest Room - Anna-Alix Koffi & Sadikou Oukpedjo

2020 

Remezcla: Online Exhibition Art Gallery: 40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know

Fiiiirst 5th Edition: Online Conversation #51 - Irene Reece and Matt Eich  

Group Show 65 Two Way Lens: Portraits as Empathy, Humble Arts Foundation 

Forecast, SF Camerawork’s Annual Survey Exhibition, San Francisco, CA 

Backtalk, Photo Emphasis, The Center for Photographers of Color at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR

Online Exhibition BackTalk juried by Aaron Turner - Photo Emphasis

Souls of a Perserverant Generation - Community Artist’s Collective, Houston, TX

XicanX: New Visions, curated by Dos Mestizx, San Antonio, TX

2019 

MythoFutuRiddim Exhibition, ARKA Art, Houston, TX

Blurring the Lines Exhibition, HKU, Utrecht, Netherlands

Blurring the Lines Exhibition, F-12 Space, Paris, France

The Sight of Pressure, African American Performing Arts Center, ABQ, NE

2018

Le Bateau-Lavoir: Storyteller supported by Exposed, Paris France

El Rincón Social: El Chow; Fruto en Vaina curated by Moe Penders, Houston, TX

2017

24th edition Visionaria of the International for Short Films, Siena, Italy

Sovereign: Artbook Show curated by Jean Sebastien Boncy, FLATS, Houston, TX

The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, USA

XIII BFA Thesis Exhibition, Alabama Song, Houston, TX, USA

Student Exhibition, Blaffer Museum, Houston, TX, 

Self-Love Exhibition, Community Artists’ Collective, Houston, TX

2016

UH Student Exhibition Show Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX

2015

22nd edition Visionaria of the International for Short Films, Siena, Italy

Extremely Shorts Film Festival 18: Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX

Aurora Picture Show/ The Menil: BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), Houston, TX,

2013

HCC Student Show, Central Houston Community College, Houston, TX

2012

HCC Student Show, Central Houston Community College, Houston, TX

RESIDENCES & FELLOWSHIPS 

2022 PhotoVogue NFT Residency Year 2

2021 Black Rock Senegal Residency Year 2

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2023

Billie-James, The Reading Room Houston TX

2021

To Kin - From Kin, SoHo House Austin Collection

Billie-James, MACK Books Private Collection

AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2023

Houston Artadia Award

2022

C/O Berlin Talent Award: Shortlist 

The 2022 edition of The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch

2021

MACK Books - First Book Award Shortlist: Billie-James

NALAC - Actos de Confianza: Relief Grant

FOTOFEST - John Herrin Memorial Scholarship Recipient

EDITORIAL & COMISSIONS

2022 Sunnyside Health and Multi-Service Center, Sunnyside, Houston, TX

2020 ProPublica - For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way.

MEDIA 

2020

Remezcla Episode #3 OPEN ESTUDIOS - Irene Reece, advocates for positive Black imagery in art

Reclaiming Representation: host Carina Hiscock in collaboration with Unfiltered SA - Episode 2: Irene Reece

2016

La Routine de Bleu (3:00m) USA, PBS: The Territory Season 35, Houston, Texas, USA 

ARTIST & PANEL TALKS

2022

MFAH (Museum of Fine Arts Houston) - Artists in Dialogue “The Obama Portraits Tour”

Baldwin Photographic Gallery: “Shaping Identity: A Non-Linear Journey”

2020

BiC Digital: Online conversation Art and Activism # 2 : Voices from America 

SF Camerawork: Online Event: Archives and Identity - Irene Reece and Rana Young in conversation

PRESS

2024

Con(tra) El Archivo: Artists in Conversation by Deanna Ledezma The Latinx Project at New York University

DAZED: Transfeminisms: The radical exhibitions reframing feminist art practices

Burnaway: That Sunnyside Pride, Houston by Amarie Cemone Gipson

Burnaway: Transient Vistas at FLATS, Houston by Amarie Cemone Gipson

2023

Vogue: In London, a New Exhibition Heralds the Creative Abundance of Black Female Artists

ArtConnect: Magazine Artists to Watch 2022

Der Grief C/O Berlin Talent Award Winner and Shortlist 2022

2022

De Volkskrant: Exhibition in Fotodok Utrecht creates empathy for other people

Photo Vogue: We are thrilled to announce the artists. . . NFT Residency

New York Times: At Dakar’s Biennale, the City Itself Is the Most Colorful Canvas

Art Papers: 2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon

2021

Houstonia Irene Reece on Art and Healing: “The Work Makes Me Feel Unapologetic” by Amarie Gipson

Sightlines Magazine - In this Texas Biennial, Texas is the protagonist

Houston Chronicle 4 emerging artists in the Texas Biennial exhibits you should be following

San Antonio Express-News Emerging Texas artists in Texas Biennial show you should be following

Photo Vogue Festival 2021 • Reframing History - 35 Artists Selected

May 16, New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Strange Fire Collective Q&A - Irene Antonia Diane Reece

Unfiltered San Antonio: Reclaiming Representation: Irene Reece

2020

Remezcla: This Experimental Photographer is Re-Imagining Visibility in the Art World - Irene Reece

Remezcla: Art Gallery: 40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know

Lenscratch - Photographers on Photographers: William Camargo in Conversation with Irene Antonia Diane Reece

DeepRedPress - Interview of Irene Antonia Diane Reece: Home by Brenda Edith Franco

Africanah - Irene Reece: The Family Album as a Source for Activism by Raquel Villar-Pérez

Artists from the Casablanca Biennale address the socio-political realities of the Black Body by Christine Eyene

From Deep Red Press: Irene Antonia Diane Reece’s ‘Emblematic of Black Souls’ by Christopher Blay

Deep Red Press - Features : Irene Antonia Diane Reece; Emblematic of Black Souls

Short List - THE LIT LIST: 30 PHOTOGRAPHERS TO WATCH, EXHIBIT & HIRE Authority Collective

2018

"Meet Irene Antonia Diane Reece", Houston Voyage Magazine: Local Stories

2017

On Mon Frère & OC·U·LUS äkyələs/ | Interview with Artist Irene Reece, MCXV Magazine, Houston, TX

Art Daybook: Window shopping by Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX

 

BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS 

2022

DOC! PHOTO MAGAZINE #48

2021

FOAM Magazine # 60 Glyphs

Vol. 1 of The Photographers Green Book

OVER Journal Issue 2 Published by PhotoIreland

ESTE Archives: Optica Zine

Foam Magazine #58: Talent

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience: Edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown

2019

A5 Zine - April Issue Portfolio #25 

Slevin Magazine Issue #5

2018

Blurring the Lines: 1st Edition

2017

Volume V of Femme Fotale; Resistance, Resilience and Hope

Wotisart Magazine #6

 

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS

2021

University of California San Diego - Visiting Artist Lecture

University of New Mexico - Visiting Artist Lecture

University of Houston Downtown - Visting Artist Lecture

2020

University of Houston - Midterm Senior Block Crit Feedback

University of Houston Downtown - Visting Artist Lecture

 

INTERNSHIP

2017 – 2018 Social Media & Marketing Intern, Brené Brown Education and Research Group, Houston, TX