Bio

 

Education:


2009-2011: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

Valedictorian, MFA Painting


Jan 08-May 08: Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France

Course work with focus on painting


1993-97: University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado

Bachelor of Liberal Arts, English/Journalism




Shows, Awards, Neat stuff:

2012

  1. •Group Show, SMALL, 19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast, Australia

  2. •Group Show, My 5th Birthday, Secret Project Robot Art Experiment, Brooklyn, New York

  3. •Group Show, Flux, You & Me, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

  4. •Collaborative Show with Monica Canilao, Little Old One, Lopo Gallery, San Francisco, California


2011

• Collaborative Show with Monica Canilao, Little Old One, Lopo Gallery, San Francisco, California

• Group Show & Book Launch, The Book of the Is, by Chicken John, 111 Minna, San Francisco, California

• Group Show, Vacancy, Space Gallery, San Francisco, California

• Collaborative installation with Monica Canilao, Outside Lands Music Festival, San Francisco, California

• Welling Court Mural Project, Astoria, Queens

• Collaborative Show with Ezra Li Eismont, Rock, Paper, Scissors Gallery, Durham, North Carolina

• Group Show, I have a Dream, I have a Nightmare, New Puppy Gallery, Los Angeles, California

  1. •Group Show, Apocalypse Meow, Space Gallery ,San Francisco, California

  2. •Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, California

  3. •Solo Show, Elle a eu beaucoup de chance, Jellyfish Gallery, San Francisco, California

  4. •Group Show, 2011 SFAI Vernissage, The SF Winery, Treasure Island

  5. •Group Show, New Beginnings, Space Gallery, San Francisco, California

  6. •Recreation of 1791 Mission Dolores Church Mural with Ezra Li Eismont and Jet Martinez

  7. •San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Resident Artist

    Collaborative interactive installation with Ben Burke in the SFMOMA’s education department.

  1. •Group Show, Space Gallery, San Francisco, California


2010

  1. •Group Show, Warehouse 416, Oakland, California

  2. •Group Show, Gallery Heist, San Francisco, California

  3. •Group Show, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, California

  4. •Mission Open Studio’s, Art Span Gallery Space, San Francisco, California

• Group Show, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, California

  1. •Group Show, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Oakland, California

  2. •Group Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California


2009

• Collaborative show Super Awesome Revolution with Ezra Eismont, Blue Six Creative Space, San Francisco, California

• Solo Show, Boneflowers, San Francisco, California

• Collaborative show Uncanny Closeness with Ezra Eismont, Michelle O’Connor Gallery, San Fransisco 

  1. •Solo Show, The Press Club, Portland, Oregon

*  Puppet performance with Bread & Puppet theater company, Johnson, Vermont

  1. •Vermont Studio Center Artist in Residency program, Johnson, Vermont


2008

• Group Show, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, California

• Group Show, Pont-Aven Contemporary Arts Gallery, Pont-Aven, France

  1. •Group Show, 8th Annual Sea of Dreams, San Francisco, California

  2. •San Francisco Art Institute full Graduate Fellowship


2007

• Solo Show, Sometime Gallery, Oakland, California

• Group Show, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, California

• Solo Show, Kitchen's-Ink Gallery, Denver, Colorado

  1. •Group Show, Gallery One, San Francisco, California

  2. •San Francisco Art Institute Merit Scholarship


2006

• Winner of the ticket design for 2006 Burning Man Festival submission contest

• Such n' Such chosen for Bravo! pilot, Atlanta, Georgia

• Group Show, Finch Mob Art Exhibition & Croquet in the Panhandle, San Francisco

• Group Show, Miranda Caroligne Studios, San Francisco, California

• Group Show, DeMaio Studios, San Francisco, California

• Solo Show, Cafe International, San Francisco, California

• Beyond Black Rock Documentary, winner of the BBR cover art contest

Here is a window into the world of possibility. We could learn to make it together. What people perceive as being lucky is really just magic….a collective magic.

I am a storyteller, a time-traveler, a cataloger and a lover of all that is us. I reward my constant urge to be at home everywhere, and spend my days collecting, arranging and investigating the relationship between new and old. This can sometimes leave me with the feeling I am inviting someone in, but at the same time searching for a home. My childhood obsession which allowed me to reinvent tales in my head, creating situations that were partially true and partially invented, remains in tact...and this makes me a very happy girl.

The little doors and signs help me to patch together our own history, creating a gentle dialogue living simultaneously in the past and present. I wonder about the ever-changing meaning of community and home, and tend to find the answers in free boxes and the stuff left on the side of the street.

I believe our trash combined with our hopes will replace the history books.

buns@landofbunnie.com

415.308.6814

Welcome to Bunnie Land!

Press:


http://www.slashfilm.com/henry-selicks-stopmotion-horror-movie-released-disney/#more-126042


http://hifructose.com/the-blog/1918-monica-canilao-and-bunnie-reiss-qlittle-old-oneq.html


http://www.ransom-notes.net/?p=2651


http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/111211a.html


http://www.lopogallery.com/blog/2012/01/musings-on-little-old-one/


http://artnowsf.com/wordpress/?p=5604


http://www.stephmansolf.com/blog/


http://vimeo.com/32001191


http://vimeo.com/32127566


http://wallspacesf.com/?page_id=491


http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/juxtapoz-outside-lands-2011-monica-canilao-and-team-build-out


http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=22321


http://m.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/07/05/photos-from-outdoor-street-art-gallery-the-welling-court-mural-project-in-astoria


http://rwkstreetspot.blogspot.com/2011/06/welling-court-mural-project-2011.html


http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/051411.html


http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/051211.html


http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/05/apocalypse_meow_exhibit_excite.php


http://sfist.com/2011/04/30/breaking_theyre_back.php


http://missionlocal.org/2010/04/art-explosion-open-studios-day-2/  


http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/040811.html


http://www.sfweekly.com/slideshow/art-explosion-open-studios-in-the-mission-29759411/1/


http://aggressivepanhandler.com/2010/11/17/art-in-progress-adorable-new-mural-going-up-at-the-harding-theater/


http://io9.com/5693537/the-greatest-laser-cat-mural-in-the-universe


http://loveandtrash.com/2010/11/kittenzilla-destroys-san-francisco/


http://laughingsquid.com/awesome-laser-cat-mural-in-san-franicsco/


http://gizmodo.com/5694753/every-single-mural-in-the-world-should-be-of-colossal-cats-shooting-lasers


http://cybergata.blogspot.com/2010/11/laser-cat-mural-in-san-francisco.html


http://10percentnerd.com/news/item/360-words-can%E2%80%99t-describe-the-greatest-mural-ever


http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/firstth0410c.html


http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/120409.html


http://sfist.com/2010/12/22/breaking_laser_cat_mural_vandalized.php


http://sfist.com/2010/12/24/and_here_we_are_divisadero_street_a.php


http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-01-05/news/kittenzilla-mural-san-francisco-controversy/


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=83242


http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/02/200-year-old_mission_dolores_m.php


http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=109826

Bunnie (Bonnie) Reiss grew up with the wide blue sky of Colorado and a Siamese cat named Sammy. Most of her days were filled with the creation of elaborate tall tales and failing at playing the saxophone.

After relocating to San Francisco 7 years ago, she spends her days scavenging for discarded materials to paint and quilt together gentle dialogues in a sunny studio in West Oakland. She drinks lots of tea, cultivates magic and watches the stars rise again and again. You are always welcome to come by and travel through time with her.