Faculty of Art
Photography
Meet the Artist
Barbara
Astman
aka. Barb, Photographer
“"...echoes across more than a century of technological innovation and evolution of the medium"."Audacious, humorous, improbable." "Intimate, personal, and quietly enthralling."”
Barbara Astman belongs to a visionary group of artists who have continued to radicalize visual culture since the early 1970s by defining new ways of seeing. Over four decades, she has explored a wide range of photo-based media and produced work, which has received national and international recognition.She is represented in important public, corporate and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Deutche Bank, New York; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her artist’s archives are held in the E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives, AGO.
OCAD U - Faculty of Arts & Science
Indigenous Visual Culture
Minor In progress
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing & Painting
Minor Completed, 1980
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Associate Degree, School for American Craftsmen
Major Completed, 1970
Photography Mixed Media Curatorial Professor
2016, Looking: Then and Now
Corkin Gallery, Toronto
1995, Personal/Persona - A 20 Year Survey
Art Gallery of Hamilton
2017, Long List Scotia Bank Photograpy Award
Scotia Bank,Toronto
2000, Member
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
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