Kate Barry is an artist whose work investigates queerness, subjectivity, and embodied practice through painting, performance and video.
She has contributed over 25-years to working in artist-run spaces in Canada committed to the exhibition of artwork outside the mainstream. Barry has performed and exhibited in galleries and festivals throughout Canada and internationally, including the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Open Space (Victoria), 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art (Toronto), World Pride Toronto, the Rider Project (NYC) and Live Art Ireland. In addition, she has self-produced work at the Musee d’Orsay (Paris, France) and Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto). From 2011-2014 Kate Barry was a member of the board of directors for FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto). She was the project manager for More Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women and she worked as the archival and research associate for the book, Wordless: The Performance Art of Rebecca Belmore, 2019. She was also the project lead for the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, an urban screen launched by grunt gallery in 2019. Currently, she is a sessional faculty at Emily Carr University of Art & Design and serves on the board of directors of the Mutual Aid and Reciprocity Fund (MARFEC) at ECU, and on the board at the Western Front (Vancouver).
Kate Barry is represented by Vtape (Toronto) and FADO Performance Art Center (Toronto, Canada).
Photo by Henry Chan
Email: kbarry(at)ecuad.ca
IG: @mz.katebarry
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mzkatebarry