Mary Reid

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About Mary Reid

Mary Reid is an accomplished and personable arts executive specializing in strategic planning and execution with national experience and exceptional relationship building and communication skills. Results oriented, Reid possesses extensive experience and knowledge in marketing, development, corporate and government relationships, grant, and proposal writing as well as publishing. Her academic and curatorial practice is focused on modern and contemporary Canadian art, public art, museum management and cultural policy. Reid is very comfortable working with a senior management team, unionized employees, boards, media, public funders, governments, city officials, students, volunteers, artists, creators and other stakeholders. Mary Reid is currently the Director/ Curator of the Woodstock Art Gallery. She was formerly the Director/Curator of the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba (2011 to 2014) and the Curator of Contemporary Art and Photography at Winnipeg Art Gallery (2004 to 2011). In 2013 she was appointed by the City of Winnipeg to the Winnipeg Arts Council Board of Directors. Previously, Reid was a member of the Public Art Committee for the City of Winnipeg, co-chair of Winnipeg’s Nuit Blanche 2011 and former President of the Board of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers. In 2010, she worked with the Winnipeg Arts Council as part of the Cultural Capital program of events to coordinate "My City’s Still Breathing," a symposium that explored the many dimensions of the arts, artists and the city. Reid has project-managed and contributed essays to several catalogues, brochures, journals and magazines which support her various projects. Mary has formerly mentored for MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art) and Arts and Cultural Industries Manitoba. Reid has lectured at, most recently Fanshawe College, the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba on issues regarding historical and contemporary art, curating and museum practice as well as critical writing. Prior to her move to Winnipeg she was the curator at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON, where she undertook the project management of the large-scale environmental sculpture, outdoor exhibition "Shore / lines. responding to place." While in Barrie she taught for Georgian College's Department of Design and Visual Arts. Reid received her Master’s degree in Art History from York University, Toronto in and her Master of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business in 2020. Banner image:"The Great Sea," installation shot, 2025, photo credit: Darren Rigo