Archie Barry is an artist living and working on Wurundjeri land/Melbourne. Born in 1990 and raised on the coastal regions of the Eora Nation/Sydney, their artwork is autobiographical, somatic and process-led. Through performance, video, singing, sculpture and music composition their practice reaches towards often imperceptible forces including spirits, affects, thoughts and the vibrant echoes of trauma. Their artworks trouble dominant notions of selfhood as singular, stable, legible and sequential.
Barry’s work has presented in solo exhibitions at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2023), The Heide Museum of Modern Art (2021) and Blindside Gallery (2019), and in a range of group settings including at The Samstag Museum of Art (2022), The Monash University Museum of Art (2021 - 2022), The National Gallery of Victoria (2021, 2019), The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2022, 2020, 2018, 2017), The Museum of Contemporary Art (2019) and Contemporary Art Tasmania (2019) amongst other spaces. They have given performance lectures and artist talks at The National Gallery of Victoria (2022, 2019), Parsons and The New School (2020, 2018), Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2020), Monash University Museum of Art (2019) and The Centre for Contemporary Photography (2018). Their work is held in the Monash University Museum of Art and private collections internationally.
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Contact: helloarchiebarry [at] gmail.com
Barry’s work has presented in solo exhibitions at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2023), The Heide Museum of Modern Art (2021) and Blindside Gallery (2019), and in a range of group settings including at The Samstag Museum of Art (2022), The Monash University Museum of Art (2021 - 2022), The National Gallery of Victoria (2021, 2019), The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2022, 2020, 2018, 2017), The Museum of Contemporary Art (2019) and Contemporary Art Tasmania (2019) amongst other spaces. They have given performance lectures and artist talks at The National Gallery of Victoria (2022, 2019), Parsons and The New School (2020, 2018), Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2020), Monash University Museum of Art (2019) and The Centre for Contemporary Photography (2018). Their work is held in the Monash University Museum of Art and private collections internationally.
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Contact: helloarchiebarry [at] gmail.com