Steve Reinke

Born - Canada

Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his videos. His work is screened widely and is in several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Pompidou (Paris), and the National Gallery (Ottawa).  His tapes typically have diaristic or collage formats, and his autobiographical voice-overs share his desires and pop culture appraisals with endearing wit. 

Born in a village in northern Ontario, he is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. In the 1990's he produced the ambitious omnibus The Hundred Videos (1996), and a book of his scripts, Everybody Loves Nothing: Scripts 1997-2005 was published by Coach House (Toronto). He has also co-edited several books, including By the Skin of Their Tongues: Artist Video Scripts (co-edited with Nelson Henricks, 1997),  Lux: A Decade of Artists' Film and Video (with Tom Taylor, 2000), and The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema (with Chris Gehman, 2005).

"Reinke is so skilled and at ease with the video medium that he seems to have no fear or hesitation addressing just about any topic that human beings might get tangled in, from sex and evermore bizarre rituals of attraction and betrayal through to some of the most frivolous but poignant obsessions and self-delusions that people indulge in to keep despair or boredom at bay."
--Ross Gibson, How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain, Remembrance and the Moving Image catalog (2003)

Artist Collection List

Title Year Runtime Collection
A Boy Needs A Friend 2015 21 minutes 37 seconds Single Titles
A Day for Cake and Accidents 2013 4 minutes 13 seconds Single Titles
Amsterdam Camera Vacation 2001 12 minutes Single Titles
An Arrow Pointing to a Hole 2020 25 minutes 44 seconds Single Titles
Anal Masturbation and Object Loss 2002 5 minutes 54 seconds Single Titles
Anthology of American Folk Song 2004 29 minutes Single Titles
Ask the Insects 2005 8 minutes Single Titles
Blood & Cinnamon 2010 5 minutes 26 seconds Single Titles
Boy/Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein's "Narrative of a Child Analysis" 2008 5 minutes 26 seconds Single Titles
Contaminate Me 2021 3 minutes 6 seconds New Releases, Single Titles
Disambiguation 2009 45 minutes 10 seconds Single Titles
Eat Your Secrets 2017 4 minutes 8 seconds Single Titles
Everybody 2009 4 minutes 6 seconds Single Titles
Father, Limping Through a Field of Clover 2021 11 minutes 14 seconds Single Titles
Final Thoughts, Series One 2007 1 hour 23 minutes Single Titles
Future-Past-Present: A Journey Through the Twenty-Tens So Far 2017 2 hours 31 minutes 7 seconds Curated Compilations
Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love 2007 14 minutes Single Titles
J.-P. (Remix of "Tuesday and I" by Jean-Paul Kelly) 2003 6 minutes 53 seconds Single Titles
Music at Night 2009 5 minutes 20 seconds Single Titles
My Name is Karlheinz Stockhausen 2010 6 minutes 15 seconds Single Titles
Not Torn (Asunder from the Very Start) 2010 9 minutes 37 seconds Single Titles
Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp) 2006 4 minutes Single Titles
Rib Gets In the Way 2014 52 minutes 15 seconds Single Titles
Sad Disco Fantasia 2001 24 minutes Single Titles
Sandwiched Between Trauma and Apocalypse: history as it intersects with biography and the rewriting of the past 2017 1 hour 14 minutes 55 seconds Compilations, Curated Compilations
Sundown 2023 7 minutes 46 seconds Single Titles
The Chocolate Factory 2002 27 minutes 14 seconds Single Titles
The Hundred Videos 1996 4 hours 38 minutes 43 seconds Single Artist Compilations
The Hundred Videos: Volume 1 1996 57 minutes 11 seconds
The Hundred Videos: Volume 2 1996 54 minutes 49 seconds
The Hundred Videos: Volume 3 1996 57 minutes 6 seconds
The Hundred Videos: Volume 4 1996 58 minutes 54 seconds
The Hundred Videos: Volume 5 1996 50 minutes 23 seconds
The Natural Look 2014 36 minutes 32 seconds Single Titles
The Tiny Ventriloquist 2012 1 hour 1 minute Single Titles
The World of George Kuchar 2006 9 hours 31 minutes 22 seconds Box Sets, Single Artist Compilations, Kuchar Archive
VDB TV: Decades 2017 7 hours 47 minutes 37 seconds Box Sets, Compilations, Curated Compilations
Welcome to David Wojnarowicz Week 2016 14 minutes 1 second Single Titles