Kate Barry

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About Kate Barry

Kate Barry is an artist, educator and curator. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Ottawa. Her works have been performed or exhibited in galleries and festivals throughout Canada and internationally, including the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Live Art Ireland, 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art (Toronto), Galerie SAW Gallery (Ottawa), LINK & PIN Performance Art Series (Montreal), World Pride, Toronto and the Rider Project, NYC. In addition, she has self-produced work at the Muse d’Orsay (Paris, France) and Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto). Barry has contributed over 20+ years to working in artist-run spaces committed to the exhibition of artwork outside of the mainstream. From 2011-2014 Kate Barry sat on the Board of Directors for FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto) and from 2013 -2016, she was the project manager for "More Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women", ed. by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder. From 2014-2017, she worked as the Submissions and Communications Coordinator at Vtape, Toronto. Most recently, she worked at grunt gallery programming the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen (MPCAS) and they were the Research Coordinator for the publication,"Wordless: The Performance Work of Rebecca Belmore", published by grunt gallery and the Information Office in 2019. Barry currently belongs to a Collective called MARFEC (Mutual Aid Reciprocity Fund) at ECU, that raises + distributes funds to non-regular staff in need of support through solidarity initiatives. Barry is currently on the Board of Directors at The Western Front a not-for-profit artist run center. katebarry.ca