Itziar Barrio
Itziar Barrio is a multimedia artist producing research-based long-term projects and involving different agents and collaborators. She is interested in the rewriting of dominant narratives, the means of production and modes of social exchange. Her work is an exploration on how identity, labor, class, technology, and others, are the subtext of social negotiations. Barrio is currently working on a trilogy of projects in collaboration with different experts including astronomers, an anthropologist, a bodybuilder and an engineer in robotics. These works explore the intersection of labor, technology, identity, and matter. Her work has been presented internationally at MACRO, PARTICIPANT INC, MACBA, Belgrade’s Contemporary Art Museum, Museo del Banco de la República, and at the Havana Biennial. She has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and Spanish Academy in Rome. She has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan and ISCP. She teaches at SVA and her recent survey exhibition was curated by Johanna Burton (Director of the Wexner Center for the Arts and former curator at the New Museum).