His teaching career currently includes positions as Drawing and Painting instructor and Art History Lecturer at the Art
Students' League of New York, and Adjunct Instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology where he has taught  2-D
and 3-D Design, Drawing, and Creative Media.  Among
other appointments, James has been an instructor at the Art Lab at Staten Island, an instructor of Still-Life Drawing and Painting at the New York Academy of Art and taught Figure Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Reid's associations include Viterbo College in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon,  Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., and an
Assistant Professorship at the Savannah College of Art
and Design. 

He has given numerous lectures on a variety of topics
ranging from Art and ideas in Renaissance Italy, and Art
and Metaphysics at Oregon State University in Corvallis, to the more recent  A structural Comparison of Tintoretto's "Raising of  Lazarus" and Seurat's "Evening, Honfleur" at the New York Studio School.

Reid has had solo exhibitions at the Art Lab Gallery on
Staten Island, the Viterbo College Art Gallery in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Mongeon Gallery in Portland Oregon, the Exhibit A Gallery in Savannah, Georgia, and the Stony Brook School in Stony Brook, N.Y.

He has participated in many group exhibitions including
 the Salander O'Reilly Gallery (an ASL Benefit) in
 New York, the Frederieke Taylor Gallery Alumni Exhibition
in New York City, and the Prince Street Gallery Gala Invitational in N.Y.C. 

 James Reid's publications include:
True to Nature: the Metaphysics of Representation in Art, in American Arts Quarterly, Winter, 1998

Vital Form and Radiant Light: A Painter Explores the Photographs of Christopher Burkett, in Intimations of Paradise: the Photography of Chrostopher Burkett, Westwind Arts, 1999

Modern Art and Iconography in Prosopon, April 2000

Modern Mystics: Kandinsky and Matisse, in  Seen,
volume 1, 2000