Ben Reid is a contemporary printmaker represented by galleries throughout Aotearoa. Majoring in printmaking at Ara School of Art and Design and graduating in 2005. Reid was assistant printmaker to master printmaker Marian Maguire, acknowledged nationally and internationally for her own lithographs and prints as well as her collaborative capabilities.

In 2025 Ben was the supreme winner of the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award with the work Sing together.

Specialising in drypoint and relief printmaking, Reid’s prints are often political, related to New Zealand’s flora, fauna and native species, the detail of various species and their vulnerability to disease and introduced predators an important subject. 
Reid’s practice is post-colonial, deconstructing assumed certainties about Western culture, a revisionist approach that he shares with other significant contemporary artists. 

Reid’s critique of the vulnerability of existing ecosystems in the 21st century are impossible to dismiss, his prints directing the predicament of native species and their circumstances and possibilities of their resolution back at us.