Beatrix Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany. Since the completion of her undergraduate studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and a M.F.A degree from Illinois State University, Reinhardt has been living, working, curating and teaching in different parts of the world. In 2005 she was appointed at City University of New York/CUNY and lives and works the majority of the year in Queens, N.Y.
Reinhardt’s work has been exhibited in Europe, North America, Africa, Australia and Asia, and it is included in a number of corporate, museum, private and university collections across the United States and abroad.

Awards received include individual artist fellowships and artist’s project grants from the CUNY Research Foundation, John Anson Kitteredge Foundation, Australian National University, and other non-for-profit arts organizations.

Her work was featured in a variety of publications including Die Zeit, photoMagazine, Contact Sheet, Prefix Photo among others. Her work is included in a number of corporate, museum, private and university collections across the United States and abroad, including New York City Public Library, California Museum of Photography, Center of Photography at Woodstock, Light Work, Haggerty Museum of Art, and Old Parliament House in Canberra/Australia.

She has been invited as artist-in-residence to universities and galleries in Vietnam, Russia, Finland, India, Turkey, Australia, South Africa, China and the US, amongst others. Presently she lives and works in Queens, N.Y., and is a Professor of photography at the City University of New York/CUNY.
I hold an American and German passport.