Jock Reynolds

Jock Reynolds (born 1947; né John M. Reynolds) is an American museum director, visual artist, and curator. He served as the director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1998 until 2018. His artwork is interdisciplinary and he often works in sculpture, photography, conceptual art, performance art, and installation art.

Early life and education Jock Reynolds was born John M. Reynolds in 1947, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He graduated with a BA degree in 1969 from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and with a MFA degree in 1972 from the University of California, Davis.

In the 1970s, Reynolds married artist Suzanne Hellmuth, and they sometimes collaborate on artwork.

Career Reynolds was an associate professor and director of the graduate program in the Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art at California State University, San Francisco (now San Francisco State University) from 1973 to 1983. One of his students at SF State was Renny Pritikin.

Reynolds co-founded the New Langton Arts in 1975, a not-for-profit arts organization and pioneering alternative arts space located at 80 Langton Street, San Francisco. During this time at the Yale University Art Gallery, Reynolds renovated and restored all three buildings. Reynolds' artwork is part of museum collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Detroit Institute of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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