Steve Reinke

Reinke was born June 5, 1963, in Eganville, Ontario, Canada.^[2] He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois,^[3][4] where he is a professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University.^[5] He received his M.F.A. from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1993.^[6]

Reinke's best known work is The 100 Videos (1996) and consists of one hundred separate videos created between 1990 and 1996.^[3][7]

As a writer and editor, Reinke has co-edited Lux: A Decade of Artists' Film and Video, 2000 and published Everybody Loves Nothing: Video 1996-2004, 2004.^[8]

Reinke exhibited in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.^[9] He has additionally exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Centre, Tate, National Gallery of Canada, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the New York Video Festival.^[10]

Reinke's work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada^[2] and the Museum of Modern Art.^[11]

In 2006, Reinke won the Bell Canada Award for Video Art, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.^[12]

In April 2026, he was awarded the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video.^[13][14]