Judith Barry
Works * CV * PDF portfolio
Born 1954, Columbus, Ohio, US, lives and works in New York City, US.

Education

1986
MA Communication Arts, Computer Graphics, New York Institute of Technology, New York, UK

Solo exhibitions


2014
…Cairo stories, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, US
Voice off, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, US
Judith Barry, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US

2012
Voice off, MUMOK, Vienna, AT

2011
…Cairo stories, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich, DE

2010
Judith Barry: Body without limits, a survey, Berardo Museum, Lisbon, PT

2008
Body without limits, a survey, Domus Atrium 2002, Salamanca, ES

2006
Judith Barry, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT
Judith Barry, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich, DE

2005
Wall to be destroyed, Frac Lorraine, Metz, FR

2004
Judith Barry, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, US
Study for the Mirror and Garden, Caja San Fernando, Cadiz, ES

2003
Study for the Mirror and Garden, Caja San Fernando, Seville, ES
Study for the Mirror and Garden, Museum Jose Guerrero, Granada, ES
Public Fantasies, Faluka Gallery, Cairo, EG
Voice off, Luis Serpa Galeria, ARCO Madrid, Madrid, ES

2001
Voice off, Luis Serpa Galeria & Promontorio, Lisbon, PT
au bout des levres, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich, DE
First and Third, ARTcontainer, New York, US

2000
The terror and possibility of the things not seen, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, US
First and Third, City Hall, Vienna, AT

1998
The terror and possibilities in the things not seen, Luis Serpa Galeria, Lisbon, PT

1996
Rouen: Touring Machines, Intermittent Futures, Sous Sol, Geneve, CH

1994
Rouen: Touring Machines, Intermittent Futures, Statengalerie, The Hague, NL

1993
The Work of the Forest, MOPT, Madrid, ES
Imagination, Dead Imagine and Model for Stage and Screen, Presentation House, Vancouver, CA

1992
The Work of the Forest, de Appel, Amsterdam, NL
First and Third, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
Imagination, Dead Imagine and Model for Stage and Screen, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Chicago, US

1991
Imagination, Dead Imagine, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, US
Public Fantasy, ICA, London, UK

1989
Echo/In the Shadow of the City...vamp r y, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, BE
Adam’s Wish, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, US
Matrix, University Art Museum, Berkeley, US
In the Shadow of the City...vamp r y, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., US

1988
Echo and In the Shadow..., Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IE

1987
C.O.C.A. Natural Foods Pavilion, C.O.C.A, Seattle, US

1986
In the Shadow..., New Langton Arts, San Francisco, US
Projects 2, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

1982
Space Invaders, International Cultural Center, Antwerp, US

Group exhibitions


2015
Nascent States, waterside contemporary, London, UK

2014
Take it or leave it, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

2013
Baby, I’m Bored, C60/Collaboratoriums für kulturelle Praxis, Bochum, DE
Americana: Commodity Cultures, Perez Art Museum, Miami, US
Theatrical Fields, Bildmuseet, Umea, SE
This is not a Love Song, La Virrena-Centre de la Image, Barcelona, ES
The Content of Form, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
One Minute Film Festival, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, US
Permutation 03.x”, P!, P!, New York, US
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, US

2012
dOCUMENTA (13), curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Kassel, DE
Critical Episodes, 1957 - 2011, MACBA, Barcelona, ES
This will have been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, ICA, Boston, UK
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, The Drawing Center, New York, US
This will have been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Help/Less, Printed Matter, New York, US
…Cairo stories, Photography Society, Sharjah, AE
Remote Sensing, ICA, London, UK
This will have been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, MCA, Chicago, US
The Living We Are In, Cinenova at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneve, CH
The Deconstructive Impulse, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, US
Voice off, MUMOK, Vienna, AT

2011
Under the Big Black Sun, 1974-1981, MOCA, Los Angeles, US
The Deconstructive Impulse, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, US
10th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, AE
Mixed Emotions, Kunsthalle Brennabor, Brandenburg an der Havel, DE
F is for Fake, Cleopatra’s, New York, US
Are You Ready For TV?, MACBA, Barcelona, ES
Fresh Angle on the Arts, Ford Foundation, New York, US
Are You Ready For TV?, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, US
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Berlin Carré, curated by Annette Maechtel, Pop-up Gallery Berlin, Berlin, DE
The Deconstructive Impulse, Nasher Museum, Durham, US

2010
Wandering Positions: Selections from the InSite Archive, MUAC, Mexico City, MX
Forbidden Love - Verbotene Liebe: Kunst im Sog von Fernsehen, Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne, DE
TV/ARTS/TV, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, ES
ARE YOU READY FOR TV?, MACBA, Barcelona, ES
Changing Channels - Kunst und Fernsehen 1963-1987, MUMOK, Vienna, AT
Ulysses Fascination, MEIAC, Badajoz, ES
fast forward 2: The Power of Motion - Media Art, with Francis Alÿs, Matthew Barney, Ulla von Brandenburg, Paul Chan, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Mike Kelley etc., curated by Peter Weibel, Gregor Jansen, Andreas Beitin, Ingvild Goetz, Stephan Urbaschek , ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE

2008
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection , CIFO, Miami, US
Aquilo Sou Eu, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, PT
Crossroads / Rock My Religion, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, ES
Sympathy for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, US
Sympathy for the Devil, Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, CA
Ulysses Fascination, Part 2, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, PT
Looking at Music: Side 2, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
20 Years, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, US

2007
Playback, Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
Sympathy for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Body of Evidence, Getty Center, Los Angeles, US

2006
Dark Places: Mapping Enigma, curated by Joshua Dector, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US
Performance, Part 3, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Reshuffle: notions of an itinerant museum, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies/Art in General , Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, US
Heard Not Seen, Orchard Gallery, New York, US
Not Sheep, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Extra City, Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE
Cabinet d’amateur II ou a Arte Como Modo de vida, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, PT
Renegades, Exit Art, New York, US
A Short History of Performance IV, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US

2005
East Village USA, New Museum, New York, US
Resonance, Contemporary Performance Art, The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo Time-Based Art , Amsterdam, NL
Baroque and Neo-baroque, Salamanca Contemporary Art Centre, Salamanca, ES

2004
Phonorama. A cultural history of the voice as a medium, with Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, VALIE EXPORT, Pierre Huyghe, Tony Oursler etc., curated by Brigitte Felderer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Horizont(e), Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, PT
Power T’s, Pierogi 2000, New York, US
Vinte Anos (1984-2004), Luis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon, PT
3rd Berlin Biennale, with Ulrike Ottinger, Aura Rosenberg, Mika Vainio, Vangelis Vlahos etc., curated by Ute Meta Bauer, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE
Sublime Audacity: the stroller’s experience, Luis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon, PT
Sublime Audacity: the stroller’s experience, Maus Habitos, Porto, PT
Breathtaking, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, US

2003
Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Janet Cardiff, Gary Hill, William Kentridge etc., curated by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, FI
Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Janet Cardiff, Gary Hill, William Kentridge etc., curated by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, ICC, Toyko, JP
Good Morning America, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, US
Fate Of Alien Modes, with Thomas Bayrle, Harun Farocki, Ulrike Ottinger etc., curated by Constanze Ruhm, Secession, Vienna, AT

2002
Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Janet Cardiff, Gary Hill, William Kentridge etc., curated by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., Provinciaal Centrum Boor Beeldende Kunsten, Hasselt, BE
Bomb, Brooklyn Front, New York, US
Reactions, Exit Art, New York, US
The Big Picture, The Contemporary, Baltimore, US
Performing Bodies, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

2001
8th Cairo Biennale, Cairo, EG
Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., Tokyo Opera City Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., National Museum of Modern Art , Kyoto, JP
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., Centre Cultural de la Fundacio `la Caixa’ de Lleida, Lleida, ES
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., Centre Cultural de la Fundacio `la Caixa’ de Tarragona , Tarragona, ES
Endurance: the Information, Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, US
Endurance: the Information, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, US

2000
7th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, IT
Performing Bodies, Tate Modern, London, UK
Vision Machine, Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, FR
Around 1984, with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dara Birnbaum, Alighiero Boetti, Sophie Calle, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge etc., curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, MoMA PS 1, New York, US
Cross Currents, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, RU
Off the Shelf, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, US
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., Art Gallery of Hamilton , Hamilton, Ontario, CA
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., Kunsthallen Brandst Klaedefabrik, Odense, DK

1999
Voices, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, FR
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, with Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon etc., Museum of Contemporary Art , Sydney, AU
The Collection, PostPerfect/ Daily News Building, New York, US
Fifteen, New York, US

1998
Voices, with Vito Acconci, Janet Cardiff & Georges, Jochen Gerz, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe etc., curated by Christopher Phillips, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
Voices, with Vito Acconci, Janet Cardiff & Georges Bures Miller, Jochen Gerz, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe etc., curated by Christopher Phillips, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, ES
Body Mecanique, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, US
Pasajes de la Coleccion, Instituto de América, Santa Fe, ES

1997
Coleccion de arte contemporaneo, Fundacion "la Caixa" San Esteban, Murcia, ES
Between Lantern and Laser, with Peter Campus, Bill Viola, Stan Douglas, Beat Streuli, curated by Sheryl Conkelton, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US
Hall of Mirrors, Palazzo delle Exposiziioni, Rome, IT
Hall of Mirrors, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US

1996
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, US
Urban Evidence, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, US

1995
Video Spaces: Eight Installations, with Stan Douglas, Gary Hill, Marcel Odenbach, Tony Oursler, Bill Viola etc., curated by Barbara London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Reinventing the Emblem, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US
Mapping, Colin de Land/American Fine Arts, New York, US

1994
22nd São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo, BR
Crash: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace, Thread Waxing Space, New York, US
Entre la Presència i la Representacio, Fundacio “la Caixa” Centre Cultural, Barcelona, ES
Multiple Dimensions, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, PT
Don’t Look Now, curated by Joshua Decter, Thread Waxing Space, New York, US
Services, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, DE

1993
Le Génie du Lieu, L’Usine Fromage, Rouen, FR
On taking a normal situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE
Transpositions, Ferme Les Buissons, Paris, FR
Public Figure, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, US
Air Alexander, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

1992
This is my body: this my blood, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
A Museum Looks at Itself, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, US
Place, Public, Presentation, Position, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL

1991
Outer Space, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
The Savage Garden, curated by Dan Cameron, Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, ES

1990
Rhetorical Image, with Lawrence Weiner, Cildo Meireles, On Kawara, Ilya Kabakov, Félix González-Torres etc., curated by Milena Kalinovska, New Museum, New York, US
Le Choix des Femmes, with Isa Genzken, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, etc., Le Consortium, Dijon, FR
Depense: A Museum of Loss, TSWA Four Cities Project, Glasgow, UK

1989
Classrace, A Framework in Focus, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, US
A Forest of Signs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US

1988
The New Urban Landscape, World Financial Center, New York, US
The Presence of Absence, Independent Curators, Inc., New York, US
Aperto, 43rd Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Maelstrom: Max Laughs, Expanded Forms, Whitney Museum at Equitable, New York, US
Fatal Strategies, Stux Gallery, New York, US

1987
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Between Echo and Silence, Riverside Studios, London, UK
Non in Codice, with Dara Birnbaum, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham etc., Galleria Pieroni/American Academy, Rome, IT

1986
Dark/Light, Mercer Union, Toronto, CA
Damaged Goods, New Museum, New York, US

1985
A Passage Repeated, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA, US
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, New Museum, New York, US
Cover/Double, Aorta, Amsterdam, NL
In the Shadow of the the city... Vamp r y, Dark Rooms, Artist Space, New York, US

1984
Con Rumor, Western Singel Galerie, Rotterdam, NL

1983
Scenes and Conventions - Artists’ Architecture, ICA, London, UK

1982
Godard/Barry, Knight/Graham, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
Critics Choice, Eaton Schoen Gallery, San Francisco, US

1980
A Decade of Women in Performance Art, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, US

Screenings and festivals


2000
Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

1998
Downtown Arts Festival, Void, New York, US

1995
Three Linked Cubes/Interior Design for a Space Showing Videos, Fundacio Antoni Tapies , Barcelona, ES

1992
Selected Works, Rotterdam Film Festiva, Rotterdam, NL

1991
In Other Words, Riverside Studios, public video projection in Hammersmith Underground Station , London, UK

1989
Image-World, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

1988
Twentieth Anniversary of Film/Video Arts, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

1987
Australian International Video Festival, Melbourne, AU

1986
Festival des Arts Electroniques, Rennes, FR

1985
Alles und noch viel mehr, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, CH
Signal Approach, The Funnel, Toronto, CA

1984
Difference: On Representation and Sexuality, New Museum, New York, US
From TV to Video, Bologna, IT

1983
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, US
World-wide Video Festival, Kijkhuis, Den Haag, NL

1982
Casual Shopper/They Agape, University Art Museum, Berkeley, US
International Theatre Festival, San Francisco, US
Athens Film Festival, Athens, OH, US

1980
Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
National Video Festival, AFI, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, US

Performances


1988
Loie Fuller: Dance of Colors, with Brygida Ochaim, Nouvelles Scènes, Dijon, FR
Loie Fuller: Dance of Colors, with Brygida Ochaim, Biennale de la Danse, Lyon, FR

1984
Mass Fantasies/Special Cultures, de Appel, Amsterdam, NL

1979
The Second International Performance Festival, Bologna, IT

1978
Kaleidoscope, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US

1977
Cup/Couch, La Mamelle Art Center, San Francisco, US

Grants and awards


2011
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, New York, US

2006
Daniel Langlois Foundation Project Grant, Montreal , CA

2005
Film/Video production grant, NYSCA, New York, US

2001
Best Pavilion, 8th Cairo Biennale, Cairo., Cairo, EG
Audience Award, 8th Cairo Biennale, Cairo., Cairo, EG

2000
Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, Vienna, AT

1997
New York Foundation for the Arts, Emerging Forms Fellowship, New York, US

1996
Wexner Center for the Arts ,Residency in Video, Columbus, OH, US

1990
New York Foundation for the Arts, Emerging Forms Fellowship, New York, US

1989
Art Matters, New York, US
National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship., New York, US

1987
Art Matters, New York, US

1986
New York Foundation for the Arts, Emerging Forms Fellowship, New York, US
New York State Council on the Arts, Video, New York, US

Publications


2009
Judith Barry: Body without Limits, by Helmut Draxler, Kate Linker, Javier Panera, Domus Artium, Salamanca, ES

2003
Judith Barry: Study for the Mirror and the Garden, by Jan Avgikos, Fisher Jean, Museum Jose Guerrero, Granada, ES

2001
Judith Barry: 8th Cairo Biennale, by Gary Sangster, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, US

2000
Judith Barry: An Architecture of the Gaze, by Matthias Dusini, Keisler Foundation, Vienna, AT

1998
Projections: Mise-en-abyme, by Brian Wallis, Presentation House, Vancouver, CA

1994
Rouen: Intermittent Futures/Touring Machines, by Brad Miskell, Thomas Zummer, L'Usine Fromage, Rouen, FR

1993
About Face, Parish Museum, Southampton, UK

1992
Judith Barry: The Work of the Forest, by Marie-Ange Brayer, Fondation pour l'architecture, Brussels, BE

1991
Public Fantasy, by Iwona Blaszwick, ICA, London, UK

1988
Through the Mirror of Seduction, by Jean Fisher, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IE

1983
Space Invaders, International Cultural Center, Antwerp, BE

Projects


2003
The Museum you want (web project), ICA, Boston, US

Reviews


2014
CONVERSATION | JUDITH BARRY, by Pauli Ochi, ArtBlitz Los Angeles, May 5,2014
“Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology”, by Howard Singerman, ArtForum, Jan 2014

2012
Judith Barry interviewed by Omar Kholeif, by Omar Kholeif, Art Monthly, Dec-Jan, 2011-12
…Cairo stories, by Omar Kholeif, Portal 9, 1

2004
Human Condition, by Brad Miskell, ARTNET

Collections


FNAC - Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, FR
Mercer Union, Toronto, CA
Mumok, Vienna, AT
MACBA, Barcelona, ES
Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, FR
Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, US
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, UK
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Perez Art Museum, Miami, US
CIFO, Cisneros Fontanais Art Foundation, Miami, Florida, US
FRAC Corse, Corsica, FR
DIA Art Foundation, New York, US
Diputacion de Granada, Granada, ES
Fondación La Caixa, Barcelona, ES
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
Neterlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, NL
Postperfect, New York, US
Progressive Insurance, Clevaland, Ohio, US