Professor 2D Studio Division
Painting & Drawing
MFA-University of California, Berkeley
Visual artist, Barbara Penn, uses literary, poetic and everyday sources in her paintings, drawings, and combined media installations, that she merges with personal and socio/political themes. Solo exhibitions include Harwood Museum Foundation Studio, Taos, NM; Gallery A, Chicago, IL; ARTEMISIA, Chicago, IL; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA; Galerie Napela, Berlin, Germany; and Studio Lo-do Contemporary Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.
Selected group exhibitions include Multiples on Paper, a Global Perspective, Galleri Se, Falun, Sweden (2009), Kamer 108, Academie of Beeldende Kunst, Gent, Belgium (2008), Sommer Akzente, Galerie Schoen + Nalepa, Berlin (2006), Freedom, Basel Miami International at Artpoint, Convention Center, Miami, FL (2002), Conversations from My Heart, Educational Alliance, New York, NY (2001), Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Visual Art, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA (1997) and Farbe Gold, Dekor * Metapher * Symbol, the Obere Galerie im Haus am Lutzowplatz, Berlin, Germany (1992).
Penn was awarded a fellowship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1985 and artist residencies--at Harwood Museum and Foundation, Taos, NM (2008), Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium (2007), La Ruche, Paris, France (2000), Hydra, Greece (1998), Organizatorzy Pleneru, Julin, Poland (1998,1996), Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY (1990) and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (1990). Citations appear in Tempo, Taos, New Mexico, (August 2008), Art in America (December 2002) and in New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, vol. 42, (2002). Penn was a panelist at the Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ (2008) and received an Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant, (2006).
e-mail: bpenn@email.arizona.edu office: 520.626.2389
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