Art Brokerage: Artist Laurie Reid was born in 1964 in Minneapolis, MN. Her education includes a Master of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA; a BA at Reed College, Portland, OR and the Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures. Laurie Reid's work has recently received attention from the wider art world by being included in two exhibitions in New York: the Whitney Biennial in 2000, and a group show at The Drawing Center in 1995. In 1999, she received an award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) group that included a cash grant and participation in an exhibition at the Museum. In all these venues she showed large (5 to 16 feet-long) watercolors with very little watercolor on them.