BIO

Barry Anderson is an artist based in Kansas City, working in video, photography, and installation. His work has been featured in over 30 solo exhibitions and over 80 group exhibitions around the US and abroad. His work is also included in numerous public and private collections around the country including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the Everson Museum of Art.

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Polychrome Rift, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2024
Polychrome Rift, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Sonhos e Permanece, Buinho Creative Lab, Messejana, Portugal

2023
Polychrome Rift, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2021
Fragments of Space, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fragments of Space: Multiplex, Commerce Bank Digital Art Wall, Kansas City, MO

2020 
The Janus Restraint: Unknown Vistas, University Art Gallery, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO

2019
Oblique Phases, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fragments of Space, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2018
Fragments of Space, UMW Media Wall, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia

2017
The Janus Restraint: Passages, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Fragments of Space [Dazzling], Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Oppenheimer New Media Room, Overland Park, Kansas

2016
Fragments of Space, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Fragments of Space [The White Room], Bruno David Gallery Media Arts Room, St. Louis, Missouri

2015
The Janus Restraint: Phases, Kyung Hee University Museum of Fine Arts, Seoul, Korea
Midcentury Dreaming, Art Edition Project Space, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (represented by Print Art Research Center)

2014
The Janus Restraint: Shift/Split, Walter Maciel Gallery Los Angeles, California
Pigeon, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

2013
The Janus Restraint: The Ascension, The Studios Inc. Exhibition Space, Kansas City, Missouri

2012
projectSCREEN, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Junk Yard, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2011
New Work, Walter Maciel Gallery Los Angeles, California
New Work, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

2010
Ectoplasmic Response, Swarm Gallery Project Space, Oakland, California
SpaceRockSpasm, Review Studios, Kansas City, Missouri
LoopPsych, ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
Visual Music Festival, Singletary Center for the Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
60 Second Radio, Montreal, QC, Canada
Video Edition ArtIn, The Wrong Biennial, Berlin, Germany
Solstice 2025, Alluvium Studio, Center, CO
Aurora Video Art Night, Downtown Discovery District, Dallas, TX
Inaugural Showcase, Gloze Museum, Houston, TX
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, WVU Canaday Creative Arts Center, Morgantown, WV

2024
Sound of Anthropocene, Alphabet Art Centre at the New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Germany
Animate C’04, National Cinematheque, Quito, Ecuador
Faces/Places/Traces, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vestibule, Gallery Athanor, Kansas City, MO

2023 
States of Being, AMcE Creative Arts, Seattle, WA
Pump Up the Volume, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2021
Paper Cuts: Works on Paper, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In the Groove: Persistence and Endurance, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bilingual: Abstract & Figurative, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Through The Eyes of A Collector, studios.gallery, Kansas City, MO

2020
Experimental Film and Video, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
A Legacy of Firsts: The Everson Collects, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

2019 
Child’s Play: An Exploration of Adolescence, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Midst, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Farewell, Fuller Projects, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Trajectory and Linear Perspectives, studios.gallery, Kansas City, MO

2018 
One-Off Moving Image Festival, Metro Angel Guimerá, Valencia, Spain
One-Off Moving Image Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Small Worlds, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Recess/ed: Texture, Sound, Vision, Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2nd Biannual, Cube Art Project, Lincoln, Nebraska

2017
With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
With Liberty and Justice for Some, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
Staging Nature, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Against The Screen, La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
underpass, The Studios Inc., Kansas City, MO (in conjunction with International Sculpture Conference)

2016
Good and Long Looks, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island
A Star is Born: Ten Years Later, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Mixed Impressions, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City Flatfile and Digitalfile, HR Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

2015
Secret Places, Museum Romeinse Katakomben, Valkenburg, Netherlands
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany
Video Social Club: Weekenders, Plymouth Art Weekender, Plymouth, England
Intimate Riot, Kansas City Central Library, Kansas City, Missouri

2014
Depth and Meaning: 20th Anniversary Gifts, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Sum Of Us, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
Free State Film Festival, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas

2013
The Temporary Institute of Emancipated Objects, Philip J. Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado
The Protagonist, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
Composite Structures, La Esquina, Kansas City, Missouri

2012
Create, Observe, Perform, Galleria Alkovi, Helsinki, Finland
ArtPadSF, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, California
Video Vault, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Studios Inc.: 2012, The Studios Inc. Exhibition Space, Kansas City, Missouri

2011
The Big Reveal: Recent Acquisitions, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
European Media Art Festival 2011, Osnabrueck, Germany
Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida
Emblazoned Ciphers: Artists From Kansas City, University of Nebaska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Between Thee and Me, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Leawood, Kansas and Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri
Studios 2011, The Studios Inc., Kansas City, Missouri

2010
Video’Appart Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
City One Minutes, Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
Short Film Series 1, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
ANIMALIA, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, Kansas
FIT, Review Studios, Kansas City, Missouri

RECENT LECTURES AND GALLERY TALKS

2023
Soka University, Aliso Viejo, CA

2020
Truman State University, Kirksville, MO

2018
21c Hotel Salon, Kansas City, MO
Living Arts, Tulsa, OK

2017
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Art in the Loop, Kansas City, Missouri

2016
Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island
Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, Massachussetts
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

2015
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

2014
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska

2013
Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

2011
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

2010
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Indiana University School of Art, Bloomington, Indiana

EDUCATION

2002
Masters of Fine Arts, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
concentration in Photography and Digital Media

1991
Bachelors of Fine Arts (with honors), College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
concentration in Photography