Amy's profile
Amy Reid is a Baltimore-based queer electronic musician, producer, sound and visual artist striving to transform spaces sonically, socially, and visually. Combining field recordings, vocals, and electronic instruments, Reid creates a sonic language that is futuristic and otherworldly yet relatable. Often seeking collaborative opportunities, her work incorporates projections, video and installation.
While obtaining a BFA in Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art, she began weaving sound pieces into works of visual art, incorporating her background as pianist, synth-player and percussionist. Since 2010, she has toured nationally and internationally in her band Chiffon and solo in the UK, France and Portugal and has shared the stage with critically acclaimed artists such as; Future Islands, Dan Deacon, SOPHIE, XIU XIU, Mykki Blanco, Princess Nokia, Dustin Wong, John Mayer and Boy Harsher to name a few. Ranging from DIY foundations to Museums, she has performed at The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Walters Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Kennedy Center, and at the Red Bull Amaphiko Festival held in Baltimore, MD 2018.
Her most recent album Dome Trax was hailed by Fader as “timeless, both simple and ingenious, natural and alien.” This project has been featured on Dublab radio and continues to receive praise and recognition on media platforms. Her solo debut album Hirsute was hailed by Baltimore City Paper as “The Best Solo Debut of 2017”and received attention for it’s luscious textures and vulnerable lyrics by Impose magazine and other media outlets. Diving deeper into the realm of ambient music, her sophomore album Isolated Bliss, released on Atlantic Rhythms in 2020, is a meditative flow of sounds and feelings that oscillates between soothing rhythms and otherworldly ambience.
Throughout her career, she has obtained artist residencies at SPACE Gallery in Portland, ME (2018), Maryland Institute College of Art; A Roving Presence (2020), The Merriweather District AIR in Howard County, MD 2020. She received a Rubys Grant for $15,000 in 2020 for her solo generative audio visual installation Unearthing Queer Ecologies; Fruiting Bodies which exhibited at Current Space in May 2021. She was a recipient of a USA Artists International grant which enabled her to perform Unearthing Queer Ecologies in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal in September 2021.
In addition to her music practice, she founded Baltimore’s GRL PWR Collective in 2014 whose mission is to create platforms for women and LGBTQ identifying people, elevating visibility for under-represented artists and talent. Some of GRL PWR’s accomplishments include; a commissioned sound and video piece for the Walters Art Museum in 2020, receiving a Grit Fund Grant for $7,000 in 2019, facilitating a panel discussion for the Red Bull Amaphiko Festival in 2018, and receiving support from Red Bull and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation for their yearly gender inclusive drag show SWEAT.
