Barbara Balfour, a Toronto-based artist, is Full Professor in the Print Media Area of the Department of Visual Art and Art History, and Graduate Program Director of the practice-based MFA/PhD Graduate Program in Visual Arts, York University.
Her practice has long involved the relationship between the textual and the visual. Her research into text-based art practices and print’s relationship to multiplicity informs her production in artists’ books and multiples, as well as print installation.
Her critical writing primarily concerns print; her essay “The What and the Why of Print” appears in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking: critical writing since 1986, published by Manchester University Press (2017). Her curatorial projects include the exhibition and two volume publication À la recherche (in search of practice-based research) (2016) and Carry-On Santander (2018). Her artist’s book The Inkiest Black, launched at Katzman Contemporary (2014) and the LA Art Book Fair (2015), is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Upcoming exhibitions will be held in Germany and the UK, post-pandemic. Balfour has participated in exhibitions, artist residencies, and conferences nationally and internationally.
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All Photography, unless otherwise noted, by Thomas Blanchard
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This website is designed by June Pak
Her practice has long involved the relationship between the textual and the visual. Her research into text-based art practices and print’s relationship to multiplicity informs her production in artists’ books and multiples, as well as print installation.
Her critical writing primarily concerns print; her essay “The What and the Why of Print” appears in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking: critical writing since 1986, published by Manchester University Press (2017). Her curatorial projects include the exhibition and two volume publication À la recherche (in search of practice-based research) (2016) and Carry-On Santander (2018). Her artist’s book The Inkiest Black, launched at Katzman Contemporary (2014) and the LA Art Book Fair (2015), is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Upcoming exhibitions will be held in Germany and the UK, post-pandemic. Balfour has participated in exhibitions, artist residencies, and conferences nationally and internationally.
Photo credit
All Photography, unless otherwise noted, by Thomas Blanchard
Design credit
This website is designed by June Pak