Kit Reynolds (b. 2000, UK) is a British artist based in London. Preoccupied with questions of social history, his paintings explore themes of desire, consumption and the tangled legacies of industrialism and empire. Taking cue from material found across photographic archives and social media, Reynolds probes images for their cultural signification, exploring the tensions between the banal and the historic, and between gravity and humour. By examining cultures of consumption and the mechanisms of desire that inform them, Reynolds seeks to draw out and reevaluate the factors that have shaped national and personal identities. Reynolds graduated from City and Guilds in 2022 with a BA in Fine Art and has since completed a degree at the Warburg Institute.