Jock Reynolds
Jock Reynolds is an American museum director, visual artist, and curator. He served as the director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1998 until 2018. His artwork is interdisciplinary and he often works in sculpture, photography, conceptual art, performance art, and installation art.
Early life and education
Jock Reynolds was born John M. Reynolds in 1947, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He graduated with a BA degree in 1969 from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and with a MFA degree in 1972 from the University of California, Davis. At UC Santa Cruz, he studied under Gurdon Woods.In the 1970s, Reynolds married artist Suzanne Hellmuth, and they sometimes collaborate on artwork.
Career
Reynolds was an associate professor and director of the graduate program in the Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art at California State University, San Francisco from 1973 to 1983. One of his students at SF State was Renny Pritikin.Reynolds co-founded the New Langton Arts in 1975, a not-for-profit arts organization and pioneering alternative arts space located at 80 Langton Street, San Francisco.
Reynolds served as the executive director of the Washington Project for the Arts from 1983 to 1989, a non-profit arts organization in Washington, D.C.. From 1989 until 1998, he served as the director of the Addison Gallery of American Art an academic museum at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Reynolds served as the "Henry J. Heinz II Director" of the Yale University Art Gallery, from 1998 until 2018. During this time at the Yale University Art Gallery, Reynolds renovated and restored all three buildings.
His art practice consists primarily of sculpture, photography, conceptual art, performance art, and installation art. Reynolds' artwork is part of museum collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Detroit Institute of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.