Reggie Burrows Hodges’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at, among others, The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (2025); Karma, Los Angeles (2025, 2023); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2023–24); Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (2023); the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine (2021–22), Karma, New York (2021), and Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine (2020, 2019). His work is held in the public collections of the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Institute of Chicago; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Dallas Museum of Art; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Tate Modern, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Born and raised in Compton, California, Reggie Burrows Hodges moved as a teenager to New York and Washington, DC. He attended the University of Kansas, where he studied in the theatre department, took coursework in African American studies, and played tennis on scholarship. He settled in New York after graduating, and focused on music, founding a reggae band, Trumystic, with which he toured from 1995 to 2010, and co-owning Bass Mind Recording Studio in Brooklyn. In addition, he worked as a professional tennis coach for the United States Tennis Association/International Tennis Federation Pro Circuit. He moved to Vermont in 2000 before settling in Maine in 2008.