Bio

Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist whose work explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Her projects include intimate views of private spaces, and reflections on her own history and values. Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home. Her current work incorporates embroidery and examines personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany. Reischwitz has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries including the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Newport Art Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, Danforth Art Museum, Photographic Resource Center, The Center for Fine Art Photography (CO), Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Center for Photographic Art (CA), FotoNostrum in Barcelona, Berlin Blue Art Gallery, Dina Mitrani Gallery and Gallery Kayafas. She has received multiple awards, including the 2020 Griffin Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Multimedia Award at the 2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards. Her series “Spin Club Tapestry” was selected as a Juror’s Pick at the 2021 LensCulture Art Photography Awards and is the Series Winner at the 2021 Siena International Photo Awards. She is a four-time Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photographer and is a Mass Cultural Council 2021 Artist Fellowship Finalist in Photography. Her first monograph, “Spin Club Stories”, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022. It was shortlisted for the 2022 Lucie Photo Book Prize and received “Silver” at the 2022 Budapest International Foto Awards and at PX3 2023; as well as 2nd Prize at the 2023 International Photography Awards. In 2022, the European TV channel ARTE showcased her work for “Spin Club Stories” in a segment of their television show TWIST. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.