Barbara Reise (1940–1978) was an American art critic and historian. The final dozen years of her life were spent in the United Kingdom.[1] She was closely linked to leaders of minimalism and conceptual art.[2] Of the American minimalist artists, she wrote "One must think to get the full effects of their work, which unfolds over time in conceptual richness."[3] She has been called "an inspirational figure in the movements of minimal and conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s".[4]