born in 1934 in Granite, OK
education
1956
BFA, Memphis College of Art
Siena College, Memphis, TN
Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
selected solo exhibitions
2009
Keep Looking Up, David Lusk Gallery
Veda Reed: Paintings Recent and Previous, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
2007
daybreak/nightfall, David Lusk Gallery
2004
New Paintings, David Lusk Gallery
2001
David Lusk Gallery
1999
Ledbetter Lusk Gallery
1998
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
1996
Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis
1995
Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1993
Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1991
Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis
1989
Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1987
Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1985
Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1983
Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1981
Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1980
Veda Reed Paintings & Drawings: 1955-1980, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
selected group exhibitions
2009
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
2007
15th Annual Heart Auction, Child Advocacy Center, Memphis
2004
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, (catalog)
San Francisco International Fine Art Exposition, San Francisco
2002
Side By Side, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
A Century of Progress: Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
1999
Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council, exhibition at Memphis College of Art, Memphis
1996
Burton Callicott & Veda Reed: Teacher & Student, Memphis College of Art, Memphis
Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council, Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, Memphis
1995
Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council, Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, Memphis
1994
Small Scale Grand Gestures, Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis
BOXES: Artists Respond to the Object, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Faculty Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis
awards and honors
1996
Tennessee Governor's Award in the Arts, Individual Artist
1966
Benjamin Goodman Faculty Travel Award, Memphis College of Art, Memphis
1965
Honorable Mention, Mid-South Exhibition, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
1961
Honorable Mention, Painting of the Year Exhibition, Atlanta
1960
First Prize, Designer Craftsmen USA, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York,
1959
Honorable Mention, Delta Annual, Little Rock,
1958
First Prize, The Memphis Academy of Arts Fellowship, Memphis
1956
First Prize, Young Americans and Young Scandinavians, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
selected bibliography
The Memphis Flyer, Off the Wall, Carol Knowles, April 2007, p35
New American Paintings Juried Exhibition in Print, July, 2004, Number 52, p. 152-153
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN Catalog, p. 346 , 338
Burton Callicott and Veda Reed: Teacher and Student, Memphis College of Art, 1996
Tennessee Art Collection, Opryland Hotel, 1992, p. 22
Memphis: 1948-1958, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 1986, p. 45 & 205
Memphis College of Art - Memphis Academy of Arts, Fifty Years of Visual Creation, Memphis College of Art, 1986
Landscape and Genre Painting in Tennessee, 1810-1985, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. XLIV, Summer, 1985, Number 2, p. 148-149
Veda Reed Paintings and Drawings 1955-1980, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery (Memphis Brooks Museum of Art), 1980
selected commissions
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Stanford, CT
Memphis Country Club, Memphis
Memphis In May, poster honoring the Netherlands, Memphis
The University Club, Memphis
selected collections
Apperson Crump Duzane & Maxwell, Memphis
AutoZone Corporation, Memphis
Baker Donelson, Memphis
Boyle Investment Company, Memphis
Bracewell & Patterson, Washington, DC
Buckeye Cellulose, Memphis
First Tennessee Bank, Memphis
Guardsmark, Memphis
Independent Bank, Memphis
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
Memphis Cancer Center, Memphis
Memphis College of Art, Memphis
Memphis Cook Convention Center, Memphis
Memphis Outpatient Heart Lab, Methodist Hospital, Memphis
Memphis University School, Memphis
National Bank of Commerce, Memphis
Opryland Hotel, Nashville
Promus Corporation, Memphis
Rhodes College, Memphis
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Shea Law Firm, Memphis
South Trust Bank, Memphis
State University of New York at Binghampton, Binghampton, NY
The Cardiovascular Specialists, Memphis
The State of Tennessee Fine Arts Collection, Nashville
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson
Union Planters National Bairm, Memphis
Urban Arts Commission, Memphis