Aideen Barry (born 1979) is an Irish visual artist. Aideen was born in Cork and is known for her performance, film, sculpture, drawing, and installation work. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in a number of museums, publicly funded centres of contemporary art, private galleries and art fairs.
Aideen is a practicing visual artist based between Ireland, Lithuania and the United States. In 2020 she was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy as an ARHA member. She is also a member of Aosdána. Aideen teaches in several universities and schools of visual art in Ireland, America and Europe. She was Lecturer at Limerick School of Art & Design from 2010 to 2020 on the undergrad and post grad programmes. She received the Myron Marty Award from Drake University in Iowa in 2019 and in 2020 she will be a speaker as part of the Anderson Lecture Series at Penn State University. She has also been commissioned by Kaunas 2022, The European Capital of Culture, to make a site specific major moving image work. Aideen also has a number of international touring shows current in the United States at the Katzen Centre at the American University Museum, NYU, The American Film Maker's Co-Op in New York City, Oaxaca Film Festival Mexico. Later his year she will have works at Artissma in Italy and in early 2021 in ArtBA in Buenos Aires. She is also working on a special commission for the Bunting Archive for the Irish Traditional Music Organisation and Music Network in Ireland which will form a part of a series of solo shows and other international presentations in 2021 and 2022.
Selected
projects include exhibitions at: Elephant West & Frieze Art Fair
UK, Mothers Tankstation, The Drawing Room London, The Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Oaxaca, Mexico, Louise T. Blouin, London, Moderne Mussett
Sweden, The Loop Biennale, ESP, Matucana 100, Chile, Artissma, CHACO
& ARCO Art Fairs, The Wexner Centre Ohio, The Royal Hibernian
Academy, the Museum des Beux Arts, The Crawford Municipal Gallery, The
Butler Gallery, The Banff Centre Canada, the Headlands Centre for the
Arts San Francisco, Liste Art Fair Basel Switzerland, BAC Geneva, Art
Basel BA and Catherine Clark Gallery, US. Barry has received numerous
awards for her practice including recent awards: Culture Ireland Awards
2018 & 2019, 2016, 2011, 2012, Commissions from the Irish Government
under the Department of Education & Skills, Shortlist for the 2020
Aceys Industry Film Awards, The Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship Award
2017, Project New Work Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Arts
Council of Ireland Bursary Awards, Modern Ireland in 100 Art Works 2015
award from the Royal Irish Academy, the Silent Light Film Award, Travel
and Training Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, in 2010 was
shortlisted for the prestigious AIB Prize.
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