b. 1990, Houston, TX
Education
2013 Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication , Prairie View A&M University , Prairie View , TX
2019 Masters of Fine Art and Design , School of Visual Arts , New York , NY
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Project Row Houses , Round 59, Houston , TX
2025 Box 13 , Snap It Up, Solo Exhibition , Houston, TX
2025 Black Future Newsstand , Owed, Group Exhibition, Houston
2025 Box 13 , Open Box , Group Exhibition/Auction, Houston, TX
2025 Box 13 , EXperimental , Group Exhibtion , Houston, TX
2023 SanMan Studios, Tears on West Montgomery, Solo Exhibition, Houston, TX
2022 Martha’s Contemporary, Something Slight, Group Exhibition, Austin, TX
2022 Texas Southern University, African American City Wide Exhibition, Houston, TX
2022 Prairie View A&M University, Faculty Group Exhibition, Prairie View, TX
2022 Prauper Studios, Houston Forever, Group Exhibition, Houston, TX
2021 Housing Gallery, “A Gathering”, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
2020 New Old: Designing for Our Future Selves, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
2019 The Black School, Studio Launch, The Block Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Paradice Palase, Twist and Twine, Group Show, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Paradice Palase, My Favorite Heartbreak, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Paradice Palase, Summer Camp , Brooklyn, NY
2018 “The Tent Revival / The Black School ” New Museum, New York, NY
2016 Rice University, Citizens Without Citizenship , Houston TX
2012 - 2013 Bombay Artisan Series, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, TX
2012 Houston Counter Crawl , Houston, TX
Self-Initiated Exhibitions
2022 3402, Theory Studios, Houston, TX
2015 hypenightlate, East End Studio Gallery
2018 PLEX - TBG Gallery, group exhibition, New York, NY
Publication Display
2017 - 2018 Pioneer Works, Press Play Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, Black Love Festival, New York, NY
2020 Printed Matter, Free Protest PDFs: Zines and Pamphlets, My Favorite Heartbreak
Awards
2019 AIGA NY Fresh Grad speaker
2019 The School of Visual Arts, Paul Rand Award,
Related Publicity
Innovating Art Pedagogies as Radical Activism, A Blade of Grass, 2018
https://abladeofgrass.org/reports-from-the-field/innovating-art-pedagogies/
James, Savannah, Bushwick Art Space Hosts Exhibit about Social Justice In Black
Communities, 2019, Bushwick Daily.
https://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/arts-and-culture/5949-bushwick-art-spacehosts-
exhibit-about-social-justice-in-black-communities
Gipson Amarie, Houstonia magazine, The Mecca: This is how Mitchell Reece
is Painting North Houston
https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2022/01/mitchell-reece-artist-houston
Mitchell Reece, Polo Silk, and Taylor Simmons: Something Slight , surfacemag.com
Teaching Practice
2016 - The Black School , Teaching Artist
2019 - 2021 - Pratt Institute , Graduate Communications / Package Design
2021 - Prairie View A&M University , Undergraduate / Digital Media Arts