Sticks and Stones Trilogy: The Words Spoken, The Words on the Body, The Marks on the Wall

Born and raised in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, Sienna Reid is a multimedia artist working in painting, drawing, video, photography and ceramics among other experimental processes. A graduate of the University of Washington with a BFA in painting, since the age of 19 Reid has been exhibiting her work in the USA and Italy, and has work in private collections throughout Europe and the USA. Reid lived in Italy from 1999 until 2014, studying ancient history with a focus on important women, who were powerful and known in their own time, but whose remembrance have been systematically destroyed in the annals of patriarchal history. In 2007 Reid scrutinized the Amanda Knox trial in Italy and created a documentation of words used against the 20 year old girl while imprisoned. Reid wrote and directed Sticks and Stones Trilogy in response to this documentation, and inspired by her previous studies of historic pillorying of women through the millennia. In 2013, Reid moved to NYC, opening a studio in Bushwick where she continued her work, and previewed the seminal works of the Sticks and Stones project at Bushwick Open Studios in 2014 and 2015. The project elicited intense public interest in the project. In 2017 Reid moved to Hudson, NY where she currently lives and works. Since 2007 Reid has transformed "Sticks and Stones" into a large multimedia project including ceramics, drawings, paintings, etchings, photography and film. Her interest is to create dialogue about the etymology and semantics of the words that are routinely used to describe women, whether they are historic figures, living normal lives, or in the spotlight of public in media or politics. Reid's work focuses a spotlight on historic and contemporary scapegoating, shaming and abuse of power against women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community, and the use of words to harm the individual and these collective groups.