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Derek Reese is an interdisciplinary artist whose creative journey traverses the tapestry of Appalachian heritage and the evolving socio-political landscape of contemporary America. Hailing from the former coal mining village of Maidsville, West Virginia, and now based in the post-industrial milieu of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his artistic practice is deeply rooted in the transformative power of transitioning environments.
Reese is a graduate of West Virginia University and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University. He is the 2025 True Inspiration Artist-in-Residence at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He represented the United States in the Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo in Antofagasta, Chile in 2021, where he premiered the critically acclaimed short film, Masculine Artifacts (The Miner and the Miner Stripped of His Clothes) Part II. Other recent exhibitions include The Myth of the American Dream at Tyler School of Art and Architecture (Philadelphia, PA 2024); You’re Doing it Wrong at Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA 2024); and Masculine Artifacts at Fairmont State University (Fairmont, WV 2023). |
