Beatrix Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany. Since the completion of her undergraduate studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and a M.F.A degree from Illinois State University, Reinhardt has been living, working, curating and teaching in different parts of the world. In 2005 she was appointed at City University of New York/CUNY and lives and works the majority of the year in Queens, N.Y.
Reinhardt’s work has been exhibited in Europe, North America, Africa, Australia and Asia, and it is included in a number of corporate, museum, private and university collections across the United States and abroad.