Reena Spaulings first emerged in the eponymous novel published in 2004 as a fictional character of a young woman making her way in the New York art scene of the 2000s. Meanwhile, Reena Spaulings Fine Art opened on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and its founding members started commercial and artistic collaborations with the gallery’s artists such as Ei Arakawa, Claire Fontaine, Klara Liden, Jutta Koether and Seth Price. Spaulings’ artistic work embraces ambiguities that question as much the traditionally accepted notion of authorship, as the customary division of labour within the art world.

Reena Spaulings' work has been featured in solo exhibitions by the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2017), the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2008) and the Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich (2007).

Its works have been shown internationally in numerous exhibitions held by the following institutions: Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2018); Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2017); Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2016); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine, Bordeaux (2013); MD 72, Berlin (2013); CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (2011); Indipendenza Studio, Rome (2011); Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2010); Tate Modern, London (2009); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2009) among others.

Works by Reena Spaulings have joined the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France; Collection Charles Riva, Brussels, Belgium.