Judith Barry

Judith Barry (born 1954) is an American multimedia artist, writer and educator. Art critics regard her as a pioneer in performance art, video, electronic media and installation art who has contributed significantly to feminist theories of subjectivity and the exploration of public constructions of gender and identity. Her work draws on a diverse background, which includes studies in critical theory and cinema, dance, and training in architecture, design and computer graphics. 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. Critic Kate Linker wrote, "Barry has examined the effects and ideological functions of images in and on society. Her installations and writings … have charted the transformation of representation by different 'machines' of image production, from the spatial ensembles of theater to computer and electronic technologies."

Barry's work belongs to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Centre Pompidou, MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona) and MUMOK (Austria), among others. She has exhibited at MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), the New Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Documenta, and the biennales of Berlin, Sharjah, Sydney, Venice and the Whitney Museum, among other venues. Barry has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Prize and Anonymous Was A Woman Award. She is based in New York and is a professor and in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. Provided by Wikipedia