1975 Born in Scone, Perth, Scotland
1994-98 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, First Class Honours in Drawing and Painting. Awarded Carnegie Trust Vacation Scholarship and John Kinross Scholarship-Studied in Madrid and Florence.
2004 Accompanied His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales on trip to Italy, Turkey and Jordan, completing a series of paintings and drawings based on the visit.
2009 Accompanied HRH on a visit to Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Mythos, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2017 Gods, Heroes and Beasts, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2015 Myth Making, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 The Art of Myth Making, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
2013 Mythologies, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 Paul Reid, The John Marchant Gallery, London
2008 Paul Reid, Perth City Museum and Gallery (Touring exhibition) Dundee University Art Gallery (Touring exhibition)
2007 Paul Reid, Hull University Art Gallery (Touring exhibition)
2004 Orion, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 Apollo and Pan, Art London with The Scottish Gallery
2002 New Works, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1999 The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Group Exhibitions
2018 The Scottish Portrait Awards, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh and Glasgow
' Light and Shadow', Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn
' From the Sublime to the Concrete', The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
'Ferens Open Exhibition', The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.
'Delusional Art Competition', Jonathan Levine Projects, New Jersey, USA
2017 RSA Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
'175 Years of Art', The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2016 W Gordon Smith Award Exhibition, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
Collections
His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales, Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, The Royal Scottish Academy, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth and Kinross Council, University of Dundee Museum, The Fleming Collection, 108 Fine Art, Collection of J.K.Rowling.
Selected Bibliography
'Paul Reid Revives Greek Mythology in Painting', Hi-Fructose Magazine Online Edition, September 2018
'Paul Reid', Art Maze Mag Issue 6, Guest curated by Kristian Day, 2018
'Paul Reid (in conversation with Derrick Guild)', Turps Banana Painting Magazine, Issue 18, 2017
'Myth and the Art of Paul Reid' & 'The Art of Myth Making', Catalogue essays by Bill Hare, 2014 & 2015
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition Catalogue essays by Jan Patience and Derrick Guild, 2013
Edinburgh Evening News, Interview and article by Sandra Dick, August 2013
'Paul Reid', Touring exhibition with 108 Fine Art, Catalogue essay by Laura Gascoigne, Foreword by HRH Prince Of Wales, 2007
'The Dictionary of Scottish Painters', 1600 to the present, Julian Halsby and Paul Harris, 2010
'Six of the Best Painters Point the Way Forward', Ian Gale for Scotland on Sunday, 2005
'A History of Scottish Art', Selina Skipworth & Bill Smith, 2003
'Myths Remade', Ian Gale for Scotland on Sunday, 2002
'Paul Reid, New Works', Philip Long, Senior Curator, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Catalogue essay 2002
'Art Tomorrow', Edward Lucy Smith, 2002
'Best of Young British', New Statesmen, July 2002
'Rising Stars in the Arts Firmament', John Russell Taylor for The Times, 1999
'Artists Eye Art Review', Main Feature, November 1998