Barry Barker is a British Contemporary Art curator and gallerist. He is head of the Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts at the
University of Brighton.
Previously, Barker worked with
Nigel Greenwood and was exhibitions officer at the
Institute of Contemporary Arts London and the
John Hansard Gallery before becoming Director of the
Arnolfini in
Bristol
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1986-1991 overseeing a refurbishment of the gallery. Following this, Barker was briefly with the
South Bank Centre before becoming a Director of the
Lisson Gallery.
[Cork, Richard. Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2003.] Barker's main areas of interest have been
conceptual art and
minimal and he had an influential role in many artists' careers of the last thirty years, especially
Anish Kapoor. In 1986, he was co-curator of "Falls the Shadow" with
Jon Thompson at the
Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the R ...
.
Recent publications
*''La costrucció de la vida de…/ The Making of the Life of...'' in El que vols que digui…Jo ja sóc mort/ What you want me to say… I'm already dead/ Lo que quieres que diga…Yoya estoy muerto. Edited by V.I. Brichs. Publisher: Fundació Joan Miró 2006, .
*''
emaging the world, the work of Jane and Louise Wilson'' in Jane and Louise Wilson. Editors: F. J. Panera. Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2003. .
Major exhibitions curated
*'Our Magic Hour (Ugo Rondinone)'. Photographic exhibition University of Brighton Gallery, 7 October – 2 November 2002.
*David Austen film Crackers, the central feature of the David Austen exhibition at the Milton Keynes Gallery, 10 February – 23 March 2007.
References
External links
Bio at University of Brighton
Living people
British curators
Year of birth missing (living people)
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