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Biography
Jeanette Reinhardt (born 1954) is a Canadian video artist.
Career
Early in her art career, Reinhardt was part of a group of Vancouver artists, along with Paul Wong, Kenneth Fletcher, Deborah Fong, Carol Hackett, Marlene MacGregor, Annastacia McDonald and Charles Rea who were collectively known as the Mainstreeters. In 1984, with the Mainstreeters, Reinhard was part a planned exhibition Confused: Sexual Views at the Vancouver Art Gallery that was cancelled by the gallery during the fallout from the National Gallery of Canada's Voice of Fire controversy.
In 1980 Reinhardt founded Video Out, a Vancouver-based non-profit distributor of LGBT video art and documentary works. In 1988 she was part of the exhibition Video: New Canadian Narrative at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Collections
Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.