Itziar Barrio

Itziar Barrio is a mid-career artist who is internationally recognized for her contributions to the intersections of art, film, and technology. Her interdisciplinary, boundary breaking work has been exhibited at art institutions across the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Itziar Barrio is an interdisciplinary artist producing long-term projects along with various collaborators. Her work aims to re-write dominant narratives about social contracts, identity, the construction of reality, as well as labor politics and ownership over means of production. Barrio's work explores a wide range of cultural production, and questions the formal limits of film, technology, sculpture, and installation by deploying dissent as a tool to open future horizons.

Johanna Burton (Director of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and former curator at the New Museum in NYC) has noted: "Barrio's work point to the ways in which gender, race, sexuality, labor, desire, and more are the subtext of all negotiations, whether political or personal. Yet, rather than simply victims of circumstance, we may work to write, rewrite, or reroute the stories in which we play a part, whether small or large." Barrio's work has been presented internationally at PARTICIPANT INC (NYC), MACRO Museum (Rome), Matadero Madrid, MACBA Museum (Barcelona), Belgrade's Contemporary Art Museum, Museo del Banco de la Republica (Bogota), Abrons Arts Center (NYC), Anthology Films Archives (NYC), Salzburger Kunstverein, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (Poland) and at the Havana Biennial among many others.