Education
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Studio Art, Drawing Solo Exhibition 2010 Take Me With You, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic
Kit Reisch: Indices, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas
Group Exhibition
2010 The Ambiguous Object, Pump Project Gallery, Austin, TX
TINA B. On The Road, České Centrum, Prague, Czech Republic Here. There. & Beyond. Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas, TX Down Every Side Street – New Directions in Southwest Art, Las Cruces
Museum of Art, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2009 Visual Arts Society of Texas 125-Mile Juried Show, Denton, TX Visual Arts Society of Texas 41st National Juried Show, Denton, TX Hunting Art Prize Exhibition, Decorative Center, Houston, TX Texas A&M Forsyth Gallery Regional Juried Exhibition Baker Arts Center 11th National Juried Show, Liberal, KS 100-4-100, Texas State University Invitational Exhibition
Award2009 Best in Show Award, Visual Arts Society of Texas 125-Mile Juried Show
Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists: Kimbrough Grant Award Vermont Studio Center Brown Foundation Full Fellowship Award Hunting Art Prize Finalist, Houston, Texas
Residency2011 Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON 2nd-term residency artist, Seoul, Korea
2010-2011 Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic  |
| Take Me With You mannequin reinforced with concrete, the artist’s clothes and leg hairs, wood, paint, shadow 50 in x 18 in x 33 in (shadow variable) 2010 Installed at MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic |
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| UPS Drawing: Texas to Vermont/Vermont to Texas wood, paint, ink, stickers 30 in x 28 in x 30 in 2010 the piece was shipped from Dallas, Texas to Johnson, Vermont and back. The resulting scuffs, markings, and labels produced by UPS personnel constitute the finished drawing |
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| Chalkboard 11 mixed media installation with hand drawn objects, still frame animated video, rear projection, internal wiring, wood, sheetrock, lights 8 ft x 20 ft x 10 ft 2008 looping animated videos play simultaneously on the television and in the window. |
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| July 4th, 1985 mixed media with power drill, wood, security camera, cinder block, electronics 8 ft x 6 ft x 4 ft 2009 Installed at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT |
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| D.L. Haggerty’s® ArtGun® functional handheld drawing machine motor, electronics, machined aluminum and steel, found objects, instruction manual and instructional DVD 10 in x 9 in x 14 in 2009 |
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| Way To Go fluorescent blacklights, mirror, backdrop, and hand-drawn shadows 10 ft x 12 ft x 12 ft 200 |
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| Cool White Wait cool white fluorescent lights, wires, television dimensions variable, approximately 8’ x 12’ x 2’ 2008 The mass of wires from the lights enter the television, interacting with a video image.     
Traces Left by a Young Artist in Seoul
Lee Jun-hee(Senior Journalist of Wolganmisool)
I was at artist Kit’s studio on the 2nd floor of Seoul Arts Space GEUMCHEON. He was fidgeting to make something on the table. It was traditional Korean style house the size of a soccer ball. He said it was a piece to be submitted at the ‘Haein Art Project’ that is opening at Haein Temple in September. This exhibition, directed by independent curator Kim Yoo-yeon, is an international contemporary art exhibition to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Tripitaka Koreana. She asked him to participate in the exhibition when he visited Seoul Arts Space GEUMCHEON, and he began working on the project after personally visiting Haein Temple. The model made by attaching the delicately cut and trimmed wood pieces is to be installed next to the actual building in Haein Temple. He also added that it will be connected to a powered device that’ll spin the model and create ‘rattling’ noise as the doors open and close.
It goes the same with the artwork that was submitted to the ART Fresh exhibition that was held at Seoul Arts Space GEUMCHEON in July of 2011. The Seoul Blind art work in the form of a watchtower was also made from materials found near Seoul Arts Space GEUMCHEON. This twostory structure with steps was made sturdy with wooden supports and the surface was covered with cardboard from snack and ‘ramyeon(noodle)’ boxes. This cardboard box was personally collected from nearby supermarkets in Doksandong. Meanwhile, these watchtowers are commonly seen in Texas and it is said that these are mainly made for hunting. And they are camouflage painted to the surrounding environment to stay hidden. As he got his motif from this idea, he focused on cardboard boxes with all kinds of Korean product names, and he covered the watchtower with the cardboards to replace the original into “color of Seoul camouflage.” That’s right. Maybe to Kit, the city of Seoul seemed like a ruthless hunting ground where fierce fighting was taking place. That means the people of Seoul must have looked like hunters. Although they look down from a high position than others, they are the lonely hunters who have to disguise themselves into something to stay hidden from the prey. He was telling a story of the difference in viewpoints that result from different positions through his watchtower piece. Artist did this by presenting a situation of relativity as in looking out from the inside to looking in from the outside, or looking down to looking up.
There is another piece by him in the corner of the exhibition. It is also made from carved wood assembled together as mentioned earlier with the piece that’s to be submitted at the Haein Temple exhibition, and it is a model of Seoul Blind watchtower. It is the size of a handball a little smaller than a soccer ball, and it is installed on a wall slightly lower than the audiences’ eyelevel. It was also turning 360 degrees making a ‘rattling’ noise as it was connected to an electrical turning device. The sound was coming from the vise that fixed the model in place. The sound was being regularly made as the metal hand bar of the vice was sliding down from the hold like sand dropping from an hourglass. A plain and simple mechanical device was making a clear metallic sound. This symbolized the unique geography of Seoul Arts Space GEUMCHEON. Like this Kit utilized not only visual aspect, but also acoustic aspect to express the residency experience of this place.
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