Roland Reiss

Roland Reiss (born 1929, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles based painter, sculptor, and educator. In the 1970s and 1980s he gained notice through his miniature tableaus. Since the 1990s he has returned his focus to abstract painting. He is married to artist Dawn Arrowsmith.

Reiss showed at Cirrus Gallery for a number of years before joining Ace Gallery. At Ace he had numerous one-person shows over the period of fourteen years. He has shown at documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany and at the Whitney Biennial Exhibition. He had a solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1977, and an extensive retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 1991. Currently he is showing at Diane Rosenstein Fine Art.

Reiss studied at the American Academy of Art, Mount San Antonio College and at UCLA. He taught at UCLA, the University of Colorado, and Claremont Graduate University. In 2009 he received the College Art Association Award for the Distinguished Teaching of Art. At CGU he held the Benezet Chair in the Humanities and in 2010 an endowed chair in art was established in his name. He was also the director of The Painting's Edge residency at Idyllwild Arts.

Reiss is the recipient of four N.E.A. grants and of numerous prizes and awards. His work is included in many public, corporate, and private collections, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.