12 Facts About Frances Barth

Frances Barth was born on 1946 and is an American visual artist best known for paintings situated between abstraction, landscape and mapping, and in her later career, video and narrative works.

Frances Barth emerged during a period in which contemporary painters sought a way forward beyond 1960s minimalism and conceptualism, producing work that combined modernist formalism, geometric abstraction, referential elements and metaphor.

Frances Barth has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and Anonymous Was a Woman Award, among others.

Frances Barth has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and in the Whitney and Venice Biennials.

Frances Barth's work belongs to the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and Whitney Museum, among others.

Frances Barth is director emerita of the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Frances Barth gained early recognition through several survey exhibitions in the 1970s.

Frances Barth appeared in "American Painting: The Eighties", "American Paintings of the 1970s", and focused group shows at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Since the early 1970s, Frances Barth has explored the possibilities of meaning and metaphor within abstract paintings employing complex pictorial spaces and multiple points of view.

Since 2007, Frances Barth has created two animations, two documentaries, and two narrative short films.

Frances Barth has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, among others.

Frances Barth's work belongs to the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Akron Art Institute, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Cincinnati Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Davis Museum, Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Newark Museum, and Tucson Museum of Art, among others.