Jock Reynolds
Jock Reynolds has been the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery since 1998. He earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.F.A. from the University of California at Davis. From 1973 to 1983, he was an Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art at California State University at San Francisco, and also a co-founder of New Langton Arts in San Francisco. From 1983 to 1989, Reynolds served as the Executive Director of the Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, D.C. In 1989 he then became Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, until assuming his position at the Yale Gallery.
Reynolds has garnered numerous grants and awards for his work as an artist, including two NEA Visual Artists Fellowships and multiple NEA Art in Public Places project awards. His artwork has been exhibited broadly in the realms of visual art and theater and is represented in collections of prominent museums throughout the U.S.
Among his latest curatorial projects is Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, a collaboration of the Yale University Art Gallery, MASS MoCA, and the Williams College Museum of Art. He also co-curated the Gallery’s traveling photographic retrospective Robert Adams: The Place We Live. Currently, he is overseeing the major renovation, expansion, and reinstallation of the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibition, teaching, and collection facilities.
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