In 1998 Reid won the SECA Award, which included an exhibition of her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1999.[3] Reid's work was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2000. Reid works in both expansive and more limited canvases: In the above exhibitions she displayed large works (5 to 16-foot long watercolors) with very little color on them. In 2001, she collaborated with Crown Point Press on a series of etchings measured in inches rather than feet. Many of the etchings comprise simple drops of color arranged in space.[4]
Reid was a close friend and collaborator of poet and writer Barbara Guest. Together they created and published the book Symbiosis in 2000.[2]
Reid's work makes use of gravity (what she refers to as "chance")[4] upon the physical materials, sometimes like sculpture.[5] An art writer described this as "She lets the paint affect the paper in whatever way it will, and the result is a billowing, textured surface."[6] Reid has said: "I do sometimes use a grid, and other formal constructs, but there’s always the human hand involved. Psyche, material, form—it is a concoction that has to be brewed just right."[4]
As of 2017, she teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.[7]
Reid's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; The Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The San Francisco Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) among others.[8]
