Venezuela-born artist Babs Reingold works to create alternate realities with her wall art and installations. A current focus is poverty, a personal and long-lived query. She spent two-and-a-half years in a housing project in Cleveland as a teenager.

Her wall art and a forthcoming major installation, titled “Hung Out In The Projects,” earned her a 2010 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. The first showing of “Hung Out…” is mid-January 2010 at the Morean Art Center, St Petersburg, FL. Another forthcoming exhibition, where Ms Reingold is the co-curator, displays a portion of another public housing-oriented installation called “Luna Windows.” It is at the 5Arts Gallery, Tampa in February 2010. Participation in two recent exhibitions were, "Exquisite Corpse"(Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers November 2009) and "Multi[ply]" (Middlesex College, Edison November 2009).

Other recent showings include Rutgers Paul Robeson Gallery, Jersey City Museum, Tampa Museum, and Greene Gallery (Sarasota). Solo shows include galleries in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Savannah, Buffalo, and St Petersburg. Ms Reingold has participated in museum shows in Jersey City, Buffalo, Tampa, and Newark. One work is in the permanent collection of the Newark Art Museum, chosen after she exhibited in the New Jersey Arts Annual. The show, curated by Joseph Jacaobs, led to a recommendation by Mr Jacobs for a Joan Mitchell grant for Ms Reingold in 1998.

Numerous awards besides the 2010 Florida Fellowship include three from Whitney curator Barbara Haskell, a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, a patron award from Curator Michael Auping, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, and a second patron award from Director Doug Schultz, Director, Albright-Knox.

Ms. Reingold co-curated a show at Franklin Furnace in Tribeca that motivated religious picketing of the White House. Titled “Voyeur’s Delight,” she and her co-curator were also awarded the guest editorships of New Observations, which was a review of the show. Further exposure was gained through a panel discussion organized by Ms Reingold and Franklin Furnace director Martha Wilson at New School University, New York.

Ms Reingold has numerous works in various private and institutional collections. She received a MFA from SUNY-Buffalo and BFA degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art. In both universities, Ms Reingold received scholarship and teaching assistance awards, and has shown in alumni-directed shows. She has studios in St Petersburg FL and the New York area.