Judith Barry was born on 1954 and is an American multimedia artist, writer and educator.
20 Facts About Judith Barry
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Rather than employ a signature style, Barry combines multiple disciplines and mediums in immersive, research-based works whose common methodology calls into question technologies of representation and the spatial languages of film, urbanism and the art experience.
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Judith Barry's work belongs to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, MACBA MUMOK, and KANAL - Centre Pompidou, among others.
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Judith Barry has exhibited at MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Institute of Contemporary Arts, the New Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Documenta, and the biennales of Berlin, Sharjah, Sydney, Venice and the Whitney Museum, among other venues.
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Judith Barry has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Prize and Anonymous Was A Woman Award.
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Judith Barry is based in New York and is a professor and in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
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Judith Barry pursued early interests in architecture and dance after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1974.
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Judith Barry's work has links to conceptual art, feminist performance art, critical theory and cinema studies.
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Judith Barry frequently engages viewers through visually immersive environments employing new technologies.
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Judith Barry employed a scrim on one side of the screen allowing viewers to move between the separated narratives, spatializing the film convention of shot and counter shot, while exploiting the power of suggestion and visualization created through voice and sound.
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In projects such as Border Stories and Cairo Stories, Judith Barry focused on the narratives of individuals from diverse cultures and their formation in relation to the politics of nation-states.
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Judith Barry produced differently themed projects in that series in London, Rotterdam, Corsica and Cairo.
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Judith Barry took a different approach with Untitled:, an intricate digital collage displayed as a three-story banner on the facade of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Since the mid-1980s, Judith Barry has created designs for group and themed exhibitions and her own solo shows, often in collaboration with designer Ken Saylor.
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Judith Barry has been a professor in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology since 2017.
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Judith Barry taught at Cooper Union and the Merz Akademie in Germany.
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Judith Barry received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Anonymous Was A Woman Award and the Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.
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Judith Barry has been awarded grants from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Art Matters.
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Judith Barry represented the US in the Cairo Biennale in 2001 and received the event's Best Pavilion award.
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Judith Barry's work is held internationally in the public collections of the Centre Pompidou, Cisneros Fontanais Art Foundation, Dia Art Foundation, Frac Lorraine, Fundacio La Caixa, Generali Foundation, Hammer Museum, Kadist, MACBA, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, MUMOK, National Gallery of Canada, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Sammlung Goetz, and KANAL - Centre Pompidou, among others.