Shaqui Reed is an Chicago-based Interdisciplinary visual artist who’s works involves black imagination, reimagining, blending separate things to explore; reinvent and re-fictionalize lost stories. Her work measures history in material. Reed studied fine art at the Chicago High School for the Arts and received her BFA in Fashion Design in 2018 from Columbia College Chicago. Reed is currently studying at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, where she will receive her Master of Fine Art in Design(2023). Reed has exhibited in numerous galleries throughout Chicago, including shows at The Hyde Park Art Center, The Chicago Cultural Center, Columbia College Chicago, and the School of the Art Institute Chicago. In 2016, Reed participated in a group exhibition with Sculptures Objects Functional Art and Design, also known as SOFA art exhibition in a show titled, “Four years later.” Recent exhibitions include the school of the Art Institute Chicago: “Embodied Histories: Reconstructing the Present (2021), Women made gallery: “The Deeply Rooted (2022), Museum of science + industry – Juried exhibition- “Black Creativity,”(2022), Wndr Museum: “Black Light Gallery,” (2022), Columbia College Chicago: “Cezanne Undone – Another perspective,”(2022) and Expo Chicago (2023).