Liam Reynolds

Practice & background

Born in 2000 and raised on Canada’s east coast, Liam Reynolds is a self-taught artist and curator. He began professional practice in 2020, exploring pastel, ink, writing and music, and co-founded a local arts and culture magazine.

Simple contours, playful colour and ambiguous symbols address confusion, parasocial attachments and fractured relationships in the digital age. Historical references and personal experience give apparently light images psychological tension.

His CV lists ANIMALS at Necessary Arts Collective in 2023, participation with Lustre Contemporary in Affordable Art Fair New York in 2025, and Work in Progress New York in 2026. His curatorial experience includes Red Brick Café Gallery.

The Weight of the Past, dated May 2026, combines oil on canvas paper with a hanging pencil and an oblong target. Listed among his Work in Progress works, it extends painting into an object and offers another entry into his experimental practice and Who Art You encounter.

In his Who Art You conversation, he recalls drawing independently before selling work and developing gallery relationships. At Work in Progress, alongside experimental pieces, he invited visitors to make marks on a wall without predetermined right answers. The exercise aimed to reduce the fear of beginning and connected his individual painting practice with audience participation.

Looking at the work

Start with recurring contours and symbols, and consider how they leave room for different readings. In the film, distinguish the conditions set by the artist from what participants can change. Who decides when the work is finished?