Jeanette Reinhardt

Jeanette Reinhardt (born 1954) is a Canadian video artist.^[1]

Career

Early in her career, Reinhardt was part of a group of Vancouver artists that included Paul Wong, Kenneth Fletcher, Deborah Fong, Carol Hackett, Marlene MacGregor, Annastacia McDonald and Charles Rea, collectively known as the Mainstreeters.^[2][3] In 1984, she and the Mainstreeters were part of a planned exhibition, Confused: Sexual Views, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which the gallery cancelled following the National Gallery of Canada's Voice of Fire controversy.^[4]

In 1980, Reinhardt founded Video Out, a Vancouver-based non-profit distributor of LGBT video art and documentary works.^[5] In 1988 she was part of the exhibition Video: New Canadian Narrative at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.^[6]

Collections

Reinhardt's work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada^[7] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.^[1]

References

1. "Jeanette Reinhardt - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
2. "Remembering the Mainstreeters". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 7 January 2015. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
3. Kevin Griffin Updated (9 January 2015). "The Mainstreeters brought a DIY ethic to Vancouver's art scene - Vancouver Sun". Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
4. Bruce Barber; Serge Guilbaut; John O'Brian (1996). Voices of Fire: Art, Rage, Power, and the State. University of Toronto Press. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0-8020-7803-2.
5. Carole Roy (22 March 2016). Documentary Film Festivals: Transformative Learning, Community Building & Solidarity. Springer. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-94-6300-480-0.
6. "Video: New Canadian Narrative". Archived from the original on 2019-05-06. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
7. "Jeanette Reinhardt". www.gallery.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05.