Vicki Reed is a former newspaper photographer and magazine art editor, using vintage, pinhole, instant and plastic toy cameras as well as an iPhone to explore the natural environment, family and memory. She also uses alternative photography and mixed media processes including encaustic, lumen, lith, applied gold leaf, hand coloring, photogravure and cyanotype.

Vicki has been widely published in books and national and international journals including Cyanotype by Christina Z. Anderson (US/France), The World of Lith Printing (UK), Fuzion Magazine (UK), Fine Art Photo (Germany), She Shoots Film (Australia), The Oxford American (US), Superstition Review (US), The Hand Magazine (US) and New York Review of Books (US). Her images have received an Arthur P Hass Memorial Purchase Award and a Carol Ann McNeill Skorupan Memorial Purchase Award by the Racine Art Museum for their permanent collection and a short video was acquired by both the National Geographic Channel and the Weather Channel (UK). Her work is also in the permanent collections of the Cedarburg Art Museum, Cedarburg Public Library, Port Washington State Bank and Bank First as well as private collections throughout the world.

She has participated in numerous juried shows in the United States, Europe and Asia including, Origins, an award show sponsored by the 2016 Tokyo Photography Festival, traveling to Singapore, Tokyo and New York,  Altered Views, Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR (Second Place), Center Forward, Center for Fine Art Photography at Fort Collins, CO (Honorable Mention), Alterations, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX (Director’s Choice Award), All Things Big and Small, Cedarburg Cultural Center, Cedarburg, WI (Best of Show in 2010 and 2012), Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, Berlin and Barcelona (Finalist for JMCA Award), as well as group and solo shows sponsored by the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens (UK), Unlimited Grain Gallery (Netherlands), Art Intersection (Phoenix), Brickworks Gallery (Atlanta), Crooked Tree Art Center (Traverse City, MI), Flower City Arts Center (Rochester, NY), Griffin Museum of Photography, (Winchester, MA), Minneapolis Photography Center, Morpho Gallery (Chicago), New Century Artist Gallery (NYC), New York Center for Photography (NYC), Photo Place Gallery (Vermont), Rayko Gallery (San Francisco), Soho Gallery (NYC), TCC Photo Gallery (Longview, Texas), Tilt Gallery (Scottsdale) and Wichita Falls Museum of Art, (Wichita Falls, TX). In her home state of Wisconsin she has shown at the Anderson Art Center, Art Space, ArtStart Gallery, Arts and Culture Gallery, Bradley Gallery, Cedarburg Art Museum, Cedarburg Cultural Center, The Center for Visual Arts, Charles Allis Art Museum, Commonwealth Gallery, Crossman Gallery, Gallery 110, Gallery 224, Grace Chosey Gallery, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Marian Art Gallery, Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center, Museum of Wisconsin Art, MOWA on the Lake, Overture Center for the Arts, Plymouth Art Center, Racine Art Museum, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Wisconsin Gallery of Art, and Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts. Her work has been included in large scale outdoor public art projects in Denver, Houston, Amarillo and Johnson City, TX.