Judith Barry

Judith Barry
Born	1954 (age 62–63) Columbus, Ohio
Awards	Guggenheim Award (2011)
Website	https://www.judithbarrystudio.com/

Judith Barry (born 1954) is an American artist, writer and educator, best known for her installation and performance art and critical essays but also known for her works in drawing and photography. She is a professor and the director of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in visual arts at Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA. She has exhibited internationally and received a number of awards.

Judith Barry was born in 1954 in Columbus, Ohio. She has attended the University of California at Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. Barry received a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Florida in 1978. She received a Master of Arts in Communication Arts, Computer Graphics from the New York Institute of Technology in 1986.

In 2002–2003 Barry was a visiting artist at the School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2003 to 2005 she was a Professor at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. Since 2004, she has been a Professor in and Director of Lesley University's Art Institute of Boston and also teaches Sculpture at Cooper Union.

In the 1980s and 1990s Barry focused on photographic and video works which examined gender, film theory and perception. She was also concerned with architecture and media, including exhibition design. She has created small scale installations in which the viewer engages with the artwork in some way, such as Space Invaders (1980), Speedflesh (1999), and Study for Mirror and Garden (2008). She has also created complete exhibition spaces for shows such as the group exhibitions Damaged Goods (1986) and a/drift (1996), and for Judith Barry: Body without Limits (2008), a twelve-installation survey of her work.

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