Arts Dean
Dennis Reed by Barret Oliver, 2004
As the Dean of Fine, Performing & Media Arts at Valley College, I appreciate your interest in the arts. I invite you to enroll in one of our many courses and to attend one of our numerous arts performances or Art Gallery exhibitions, all of which are open to the public.
You may contact me by emailing reeddj@lavc.edu
or by writing to:
Dennis Reed, Dean
Fine, Performing & Media Arts
Los Angeles Valley College
5800 Fulton Avenue
Valley Glen, CA 91401
Curves by Hiromu Kira, c. 1930Collection of Dennis Reed
Biography
Dennis Reed is best known for the exhibition and catalogue, Japanese Photography in America, 1920-1940, which the J. Paul Getty Museum has described as “groundbreaking.” The exhibition traveled to such museums as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Oakland Museum, Oakland California, and the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. He is also co-author of Pictorialism in California: Photographs, 1900-1940, published by the J. Paul Getty Museum & The Huntington Library. He has lectured at the De Young Museum, The Huntington Library, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Japanese American National Museum, the Laguna Beach Museum of Art, and Boston University Art Gallery, among others. He appears in Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray, an award-winning documentary produced by the Japanese American National Museum. Selections from his collection of photographs have been shown in such exhibitions as Made in California, 101 Years of California Photography, The History of Women Photographers, and After the Photo-Secession, among others. Institutions showing his collection include: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Huntington, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Oakland Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Crocker Museum of Art, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, Boston University, and Cornell University, among others. Lost & Found, Photographs from the Dennis Reed Collection, was mounted by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 2006.
An interview with Reed was published in Art on Paper magazine (January-February 2008 issue). His essay, Hy Hirsh: Experiments in Filmmaking and Photography, was published by Paul Hertzmann, Inc. in 2007, and another, The Wind Came from the East: Asian American Photography, is to be published by Stanford University in 2008.
Dean Reed is a Professor of Art, having served as the Art Gallery Director and taught in the Art Department from 1980 until 1991.