Reginald Madison

Reginald Madison (b. 1941, Chicago, IL,  d. 2026, Hudson, NY) was a self taught painter and sculptor who emerged from the Black Arts Movement in Chicago (1965 -1975). He studied independently in Paris, Venice, and Copenhagen in the 60’s. After moving to Western Massachusetts in the 70’s, Madison was represented by Phyllis Kind Gallery. After decades of working in relative obscurity, Madison held a solo exhibition at SEPTEMBER Gallery in Hudson, NY in 2021, shortly followed by his first New York solo exhibition at Rachel Uffner Gallery in 2024. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY (2025, 2022); False Flag Gallery, Long Island City, NY (2021); SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY (2021); The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (2018); and Shelnutt Gallery, Troy, NY (2018) and the historic pop up exhibition, Art and Soul, juried by Richard Hunt (1970). Madison’s work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Miami, FL; and the University of Santa Barbara Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, and has been included in “Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975”, Duke University Press, and “The Time Is Now! Art World’s of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980”, The University of Chicago Press.