Lecturing at the 2009 retrospective exhibition of my paintings in Athens, Georgia
Education
1989
MFA University of Illinois Chicago
painting (Full scholarship via Teaching Assistantship)
1985
BS Illinois State University
broadcasting/concentration in philosophy
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Gallery 307, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Nothing is Your Own: Paintings by Daniel Barber
2001
University of Illinois Chicago CIU Gallery, Chicago
Subjects: Paintings by Daniel Barber
1994
Gallery A (Carrie Secrist Gallery), Chicago
Daniel Barber, Paintings
1992
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
Daniel Barber, Paintings
1988
Gallery 400, Chicago
Paintings by Daniel Barber
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Bridgeport Art Center • Chicago • N.A.M.E. Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition
Gallery 307 • University of Georgia • Athens, Georgia • Praxis
Lyndon House Arts Center • Athens, Georgia • 38th Juried Exhibition • Juror: Mark Sloan
Gallery 307 • University of Georgia • Athens, Georgia • Mostra 2012
2012
Palazzo Casali • Cortona, Italy • Mostra 2012
2009
Emory University, Oxford, GA, Inspired Performances
2006
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL: Landscape in the Postmodern: An International Juried Exhibition (Juror: Corey Postiglione)
William A. Koehnline Gallery, Des Plaines, IL: Travel Documents (Curator: Corey Postiglione)
Palazzo Casali, Cortona, Italy: Mostra 2006
A + D Gallery, Chicago:Travel Documents (Curator: Corey Postiglione)
2003
Gallery 2 (The Art Institute of Chicago): ARTwork IV—AIC Staff and Faculty Exhibition
2002
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL: Nude in the Postmodern: An International Juried Exhibition (Juror: Corey Postiglione)
CS/32, Chicago: The Curated Show
Marwen • Chicago • Those Who Do, Teach
2001
Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago: Columbian Exposition Art Auction (catalogue)
Charm Gallery, Chicago: What it’s About
Marwen, Chicago: Those Who Do, Teach
Gallery 2 (The Art Institute of Chicago): ARTwork III—AIC Staff and Faculty Exhibition
2000
Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago: Shake the Coat (Curator: Tim Lowly)
William A. Koehnline Gallery, Des Plaines, IL: Painting in Chicago Now (Curator: Corey Postiglione) (catalogue)
Marwen, Chicago: Those Who Do, Teach
1999
Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago: Small Works
Gallery 2 (The Art Institute of Chicago): ARTwork II—AIC Staff and Faculty Exhibition
2nd Floor Studios • Chicago • Marathon Show 99
Marwen, Chicago: Those Who Do, Teach
1998
Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago: Painting in Chicago Now (Curator: Corey Postiglione)
Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago: Bookmarks 6: An Auction for Whitewalls
Marwen, Chicago: Those Who Do, Teach
1997
Inspiration Cafe, Chicago: Fourth Inspired Art Auction
Marwen, Chicago: Those Who Do, Teach
1996
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada, The Seven Deadly Sins: An Auction for C magazine
ARC Gallery, Chicago: ARC Regional III
Marwen, Chicago: Artist Exhibition
1995
Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago: Art Against AIDS
18th Street Gallery, Chicago: Artist to Artist
ARC Gallery, Chicago: ARC Invitational
Marwen, Chicago: Artist Exhibition
1994
Gallery A (Carrie Secrist Gallery), Chicago: Transition II (catalogue)
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL: 1994 Evanston & Vicinity 12th Biennial Exhibition (Jurors: Greg Knight, Mark Pascale, Beryl J. Wright)
N.A.M.E. Chicago: 1994 N.A.M.E. Benefit Auction
1993
Gallery A (Carrie Secrist Gallery), Chicago: Gallery Artists Exhibition
N.A.M.E. Chicago: N.A.M.E. Twelfth Annual Benefit Auction
1992
Blind Faith Gallery, Chicago: The Figure
The Dome Room, Chicago: Migration
Prairie Avenue Gallery, Chicago: Bodily
1988
Econo-Art Theatre, Chicago: Carne Vale
Montgomery Ward Gallery, Chicago:12th Annual Art Exhibition
Union League Club, Chicago: Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Annual Exhibition
Jones College Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL: Fourth Annual All-Illinois Art Exhibition
Gallery 400, Chicago: Graduate Works
1987
Gallery 400, Chicago: Residual Objects: Works on Paper x 5
Greatspace, Chicago: Master Feast
A. Montgomery Ward Gallery, Chicago: 11th Annual Art Exhibition
1986
Montgomery Ward Gallery, Chicago: 10th Annual Art Exhibition
Chicago Gallery, Chicago: Works on Paper
Gallery 400, Chicago: What Does it Take to Make You Fight Back?
Selected Awards
2002
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL: Nude in the Postmodern: An International Juried Exhibition: Honorable Mention
2000
Illinois Alliance for Arts Education: Service Recognition Award: Artist
1988
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation. Visual Arts Scholarship.
1987
Montgomery Ward Gallery Exhibition Award
Academic Teaching Positions
2012-2014
University of Georgia: Lamar Dodd School of Art. Athens, GA and Cortona, Italy
Adjunct Professor
Painting and Drawing
2008 – 2011
Oxford College of Emory University
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
2005 - 2008
University of Georgia: Lamar Dodd School of Art. Athens, GA and Cortona, Italy
Adjunct Professor
Painting and Drawing, Seminar in Contemporary Art, Art History Survey
2007
Piedmont College, Athens, GA
Adjunct Professor
Art History
1997 - 2004
Columbia College Chicago
Adjunct Professor, Department of Art and Design
Painting and Drawing, Design, and Art History
1986 - 1988
University of Illinois Chicago
Instructor (graduate assistantship/instructor of record)
Painting and Drawing
Museum Positions
1988 - 2008
The Art Institute of Chicago
Independent Lecturer (2004-2008)
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Museum Education (1996-2004)
Independent Lecturer (1988-1996)
1994 -2001
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Independent Lecturer and Studio Art Instructor
Bibliography and Selected Press
2008
The Franklin Chronicle, University of Georgia. Fall 2008. Captioned photo
2006
Margaret Hawkins. ‘Travel Documents' lets us tour with artists. Review of Travel Documents Exhibition at A + D Gallery, Chicago.Chicago Sun-Times. March 17, 2006
Lennie Bennett. The Images that Surround Us. St. Petersburg Times. September 7, 200
Megan Voeller. Looking at the world through the eyes of postmodern artists. Weekly Planet. Tampa, FL. August 23, 2006
Esther Hammer. Tampa Arts Trail: Ybor City Gallery's Biennial Exhibit Explores a Postmodern View of Landscapes. Tampa Tribune. August 10, 2006
2005
Sara Freeland, photographer. Koi Critique with Professor Daniel Barber. Front page captioned photo. Red & Black, University of Georgia newspaper. September 13, 2005
2002
Lennie Bennett. Unveiling the Postmodern Nude. St. Petersburg Times. November 28, 2002
Esther Hammer. Nudes in the Postmodern Dress up Brad Cooper Gallery. The Tampa Tribune. August 10, 2006
Chicago Public School News. It’s a Jungle Out There: A Rainforest Mural at Carl von Linné School. Interview and photos. September 2002.
2000
Corey Postiglione. Online essay with images. Painting in Chicago Now. http://www.oakton.edu/museum/Paint2. html
1999
Chicago Academy of Sciences (Nature Museum) Website. Video interview regarding pigments and the physics and neurobiology of perception including a painting demonstration in Daniel Barber’s Chicago studio. Fall 1999.
Danya Ruttenberg. Channeling the Muse: The Spirituality of Creative Work. Grace Cathedral Online Interview with images of Daniel Barber’s paintings. 1999. http://www.gracecathedral.org/muse/muse_intro.shtml
WBEZ Chicago. Radio interview with Daniel Barber. July, 1999
1998
Fox News Chicago. Television interview with Daniel Barber, Artist and Teacher. August, 1998
1997
Chicago Reader. Captioned Photo of painting, Trickster by Daniel Barber. Section 2: Galleries. February 28, 1997. p. 20
WTTW Chicago. Television interview with Daniel Barber, Artist and Teacher. July, 1997
1996
Nicole Cook. Interview with Daniel Barber (with photos). Art·icles. Winter 1996. p. 5
Lori Rotenberk. In Degas’ Steps: Museum visitors sketch a dancer. Article about a program Daniel Barber led at The Art Institute of Chicago with captioned photo by Ellen Domke. Chicago Sun Times. Arts & Show section. November 4, 1996. p. 35
1995
Mary L. Zeltmann and Jasmine Lewis. A Special Mural Project. Andrew Jackson Language Academy Newsletter. Chicago. June, 1995. Vol. VI No. 3
1994
Art Richardson, photographer. Captioned photo. Streetwise. Chicago. July 1, 1994. Vol. 2. No. 13. p. 3
William F. Grisham. Magical: The Biennial Evanston & Vicinity Exhibition. Review of exhibition with captioned photo of Daniel Barber and his painting, Intermezzo: Speakable and Unspeakable. Evanston Clarion. June 17, 1994. Vol. 2. No. 8. p. 10
1988
Barbara Hill. Paintings are big losers in UIC student contest. Chicago Illini. April 14, 1988
Maude Huffman, photographer. Captioned Photo. At Chicago: University of Illinois Newspaper: March 2, 1988. Vol. 6 No. 19. p. 13
Lectures, Symposia, Conferences, and International Study Trips
2010
Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia
Session Leader: Observing the World, Constructing Meaning
Think Tank 5: The Institute for Integrative Teaching International
Emory University
Invited Participant with Walt Reed and Marshall Duke
Center for Creativity and the Arts and the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence
Creativity in Unexpected Places. Getting Personal: Making Things Up About Ourselves at Different Stages of Life
Oxford College of Emory University
Annual Lyceum Faculty Lecture. Nothing is Your Own: On Painting, Practice, and Place
2009
Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia
Invited Presenter. Think Tank 4: The Institute for Integrative Teaching (National Conference)
Leonard Lopate Show. WNYC public radio, New York
Invited call-in guest. Please Explain: Emotion and Color
The Art Institute of Chicago
Art History International Study Trip Leader/Lecturer: Mexico
The Art of Mexico (cancelled to due travel concerns)
2008
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University
Invited Presenter. Bodies in Motion: Explorations in Perception and Performance (International Conference)
Traces of the Self: Embodied Perception and Studio Practice in Painting, Teaching, and the Interpretation of Aesthetic Experience
The Art Institute of Chicago
Art History International Study Trip Leader/Lecturer: Czech Republic
Czech Republic: The Art of Prague (cancelled)
2007
The University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art
Panelist, Art Talk Series: Art and Embodiment
A discussion regarding the concept of somaesthetics, and the shifting perceptions of the body in art
Invited Guest: Richard Shusterman.
Panelists: Antje Anscheid, Daniel Barber, Isabelle Wallace.
Moderator: Richard Siegesmund
The University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art
Invited Speaker, Readings in Art Education: Art and Cognition
A graduate level course in Art Education
Lecture/Discussion: Inspiration and the Unconscious: The Mind as Metaphor Machine
The Art Institute of Chicago
Invited Lecturer: Department of Membership Programs (Potpourri Series: Rubloff Auditorium)
Perception, Painting and the Persistent Puzzle of Balzac's Chef d'oeuvre inconnu.
A lecture about Daniel Barber’s paintings in the context of art history, literature, and the physics, psychology, and neurobiology of perception
Invited Artist/Lecturer: Department of Membership Travel Programs
Daniel Barber, Recent Paintings and Drawings
Viewing and discussion of work in my Georgia Studio
AIC Members’ Trip to Atlanta and Athens, GA
2005
The Art Institute of Chicago
Art History International Study Trip Leader: France
Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Albi: On the Trail of Toulouse-Lautrec
Lecture topics:
The Bohemian of Montmartre: The Life and Work of Toulouse-Lautrec (Part I &II)
Keen Eyes, Sensitive Hands: Toulouse-Lautrec and other Unflattering Observers of Humanity
The Legacy of Bohemia in Paris – Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, et al
The Art Institute of Chicago
Invited Lecturer: Department of Membership Programs (Potpourri Series: Rubloff Auditorium)
La Bohème de Montmarte: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art of Fin-de-Siècle-Paris
2004
The Art Institute of Chicago
Art History International Study Trip Leader: China
Mandarin China: Cruising the Fabled Three Gorges and the Yangtze River
Lecture topics:
Three Teachers Fell into a River: Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism in Chinese Art
China Underground: Art and Artifacts for the Living and the Dead
The Chinese Landscape—Mountains, Gardens, Stones, and Ink
Painting, Painters, and Patronage in Imperial China and the Modern World
The Art Institute of Chicago
Invited Lecturer: Department of Membership Programs (Potpourri Series: Rubloff Auditorium)
Rembrandt: Paint as Embodied Experience
2003
The Art Institute of Chicago
Art History International Study Trip Leader: France
Provence: A Painter's Palette: An Art Tour to the South of France
Lecture topics:
Cézanne, Provence, and the Rhythmic Geometry of Nature
Picasso, Masks, and the Legacy of Cézanne
Dali and Surrealism: Seascapes and Mindscapes
Matisse: "Art [should] be like a mental soother, something like a good armchair."
The Art Institute of Chicago
Invited Lecturer: Department of Public Programs (Fullerton Hall)
Degenerate Art and Music: Then and Now.
In collaboration with Fulcrum Point Music Project and Art Plus Against the Current Festival
Invited Lecturer: Department of Membership Programs (Rubloff Auditorium)
Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher
Invited Lecturer: Department of Membership Programs (Rubloff Auditorium)
Manet and the Sea
The University Club, Chicago
Invited Lecturer
Manet and the Sea
2002
Fine Arts Society of Peoria
Invited Lecturer
Rembrandt: Paint as Embodied Experience
The Art Institute of Chicago and Carl von Linné Elementary School
Workshop Leader
Painted Walls: Leading Mural Projects in the Chicago Public Schools.
1998-2002
Marwen, Chicago
Artist-Teacher
Artward Bound: Maine
Five Annual studio art study trips to a private island in Maine
2001
The Art Institute of Chicago
Invited Lecturer
Metropolis: Art in Chicago, Daniel Barber, Artist (Fullerton Hall)
A public lecture about Daniel Barber’s paintings and their relationship to the AIC collection
2000
North Park University, Chicago
In the Shadow of the Twentieth Century: A Symposium on Contemporary Representational Painting
Presenter
Paint as Embodied Experience: The Paintings of Daniel Barber
1997
Gallery 37, Chicago
Invited Speaker
Closing Speech (Televised) for the Gallery 37 Summer Program. Co-speaker: Mayor Richard M. Daley
1996
Illinois Art Education Association Conference
Presenter
Integrating Art and Geometry
1994
Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
Invited Lecturer
Art as a Catalyst for Creative Writing
SelectedPublications
2009
The International Journal for Education and the Arts
Somaesthetic Awareness and Artistic Practice: A Review Essay
Book Reviewed: Shusterman, Richard . (2008). Body consciousness: A philosophy of mindfulness and somaesthetics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. Citation: Barber, D. (2008). Somaesthetic awareness and artistic practice: A review essay. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 9(Review 1). Retrieved [date] from http://www.ijea.org/v9r1/
2001
The Art Institute of Chicago
Science, Art, and Technology
The Chemistry and Physics of Light and Color
Online collaborative project for teachers on the integration of art & science
http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/sciarttech/2c.html
Other Teaching Experience
1988 - 2002
Marwen, Chicago
Instructor: Studio Art, Muralist, and Art History
2002 - 2004
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Instructor: Studio and Art Theory/History
1988 - 2000
A.R.T. (Art Resources in Teaching), Chicago
Instructor: Studio Art, Muralist, and Art History
1995 - 1999
Gallery 37, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
Instructor: Studio Art and Muralist
1993
C.A.C.T. (Chicago Arts Collaborative for Teachers)
Teaching Partnership formed by The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Goodman Theatre, The Dance Center of Columbia College, Whirlwind Performance, and Urban Gateways
Studio and Art History Instructor
1992
Elmhurst Community Center, Elmhurst, IL
Painting and Drawing Instructor
1990
Latin School, Chicago
Painting and Drawing Instructor (Adult Education Program)
Jewish Council for Youth Services, Chicago
Studio Art Instructor
1988 – 1997
Glenbard West High School, Glen Ellyn, IL
Guest Lecturer
1987
The Association House of Chicago
Painting and Drawing Instructor
1986
Patriot Recreational Adult Education Program, Prairie View, IL
Painting Instructor
Professional Associations
2010 – Present
Emory Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture: Affiliate Member
1993 – Present
College Art Association: Member
Selected Other Professional Experience
2001 – Present
www.danielbarber.net
www.daniel-barber.com
Website Designer (HTML, Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Acrobat; SlideShowPro Director, iWeb, Aperture, NetObjects Fusion), Squarespace
1993
Marché Restaurant, Chicago
Commissioned to paint murals in the main dining room
1989-1993
Choi Karate Institute, Chicago
Tae Kwon Do Black Belt, First Degree
Assisted with teaching classes for lower ranks
1986 – 1988
Virginia Wolff Inc. Chicago
Artist-Designer
Designed and constructed stage-sets for special events
1985 – 1986
Chicago Litho Plate Graining Company, Chicago
Lithographic Production Planner and Graphic Designer
1984 – 1985
WJBC Radio, Bloomington, IL
Show Host
Punk and New Wave Rock
1981 – 1985
WZND Radio, Normal, IL
Program Director; Show Host
Rock and Jazz
1977 – 1981
WGHS Radio, Glen Ellyn, IL
General Manager (‘79-81), Program Director (‘78-79), Show Host (‘77-81)
Rock, Classical, Talk-Radio, and News