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Born 1958, Guyana, lives and works in London.Education1984
MA in Experimental Department, University College, London, UK
1980
BA in Sculpture 'A' (conceptual department) with distinction in Cultural Studies, St. Martin's School of Art, London, UK
2015
Akula Dream, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
George Barber, Young Projects, Los Angelas, US
Fences Make Senses, waterside contemporary, London, UK
2013
The Freestone Drone, waterside contemporary, London, UK
The Freestone Drone, Art Istanbul International, Istanbul, TR
2010
The Long Commute, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
2009
Beyond Language, Marc De Puchredon Gallery, Basel, CH
Light Industry, X-initiative’s NO SOUL FOR SALE, New York, US
2008
Automotive Action Painting, Chapter Arts, Cardiff, UK
The Long Commute, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, New York, US
TILT, curated by Simon Payne, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007
Retrospective, Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, FR
Kirkcudbright International Art Festival, Scotland, UK
2006
Automotive Action Painting, Tate Britain, London, UK
2005
New Work One man show, London Gallery West, London, UK
2004
Shouting Match, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Shouting Match, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2002
Upside Down Minutiae and Yes Frank No Smoke, Gallery Contemporain Centre Regional D’Art, Sète, FR
2015
Politics of Amnesia II, Cafe Gallery, Fieldgate Gallery, UK
2014
Wall to Wall, with Alec Finlay, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Hatton Gallery, Great North Museum, Newcastle, UK
Ever Ending, curated by Elizabeth Murphy, Adam Lewis-Jacob and Alex Rathbone, Adam Renshaw, Toast, Manchester, UK
REKURZE 1.618, curated by Jan Mladovský, Jan Stolín, Museum of European Art, Liberec, CZ
2013
Refractive Distance, The Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Sept vidéos dans la collection de Marc Fassiaty, with Bertran Berrenger, Julien Creuzet, Oskar Dawicki, Éric Duyckaerts, Valérie Mréjen, Pierrick Sorin, Marting Aboucaya, Paris, FR
The Automated Image, curated by Paul Wombell, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montréal, CA
After Hours / Drop Box, curated by John Lawrence, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
REKURZE 1.618, curated by Jan Mladovský, Jan Stolín, Nová galerie, Státní zámek Třeboň, Třeboň, CZ
2012
After Hours / Drop Box, AndOr, London, UK
Exhibition India: Visions from the Outside, curated by Shanay Jhaveri, Hallen and De Bond, CC Brugge, Brugge, BE
2011
At the End of the Line, with Lilah Fowler, Karim Noureldin, Helen A Pritchard, waterside contemporary, London, UK
2010
Mediations Biennial, Poznan, PL
Empty Sets, waterside contemporary, London, UK
There is no solution because there is no problem, The Moor, Sheffield, UK
Misty Boundaries Fades and Dissolves, FormContent Gallery, London, UK
Mob Remedies, with Lothar Götz, Natasha Kidd, Piers Secunda, curated by Piers Secunda, Gallery Primo Alonso, London, UK
2009
Paint Can, with Miranda Blennerhassett, Michael Craik, Alexis Harding, Jacco Olivier, Carol Rhodes, Christopher Stevens, Ufuk Gueray, Travelling Gallery, UK
Figuring Landscapes, curated by Dryden Goodwin, Tate Modern, London, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
2008
What’s That Sound, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Colour Film and Video, curated by Simon Payne, Tate Modern, London, UK
2006
Single Shot, with Clio Barnard, Shane Davey, Ben Dodd, Sean Dower, etc., Tate Britain, London, UK
2004
Beyond Language and Withdrawal, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2002
Aquaria, with Vito Acconci, Gary Hill, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, etc, Landesgalerie, Oberosterreich, Linz, AT
1997
RIPE, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Ansaphone, Whitechapel Open, London, UK
1996
Retrospective, ICA, London, UK
2014
Assembly: A survey of recent artists’ film and video in Britain 2008–2013, Tate Britain, London, UK
After/Hours/Drop/Box, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
Art, Polotics and Surveilance, Split Film Festival, Split, HR
2013
Rickroll, curated by Open File, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
The Freestone Drone, no.w.here, London, UK
Pop Politics, ICA, London, UK
World of Art, Womad Festival, Charlton Park, UK
2011
India Shouting Match, 28th Documentary and Video Festival, Kassel, DE
Automotive Action Painting, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, DE
Automotive Action Painting, South London Gallery, London, UK
Shouting Match, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, US
TILT, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
Gibberish, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
TILT, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
2009
Split International Festival of Film & Video, Split, HR
Beyond Language, Evolution Festival, Leeds, UK
2008
Following Your Heart, Arouca Film Festival, Porto, PT
Withdrawal, Videoex, Zurich, CH
Automotive Action Painting, BFI SouthBank, London, UK
Automotive Action Painting, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
Shouting Match and Automotive Action Painting, KurzFilmAgentur, Hamburg, DE
Antartica Starts Here, BFI Southbank, London, UK
Scratch, Sadler's Wells, London, UK
2007
Shouting Match, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1001 Colours Andy Never Thought of, 2 Annas, Riga International Short Film Festival, Riga, LV
Walking Off Court, Visonic, Belfast, IE
I Was Once in a Shit Show, BKK Festival, Bangkok, TH
Automotive Action Painting, VTape, Toronto, CA
Withdrawal, Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Kassel, DE
2006
Automotive Action Painting, Branson, Anticipating The Past, Tate Modern, London, UK
2005
Shouting Match, Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, UK
2004
Shouting Match, Winterthur Short Film Festival, Winterthur, CH
Shouting Match
Shouting Match, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Walking Off Court, Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, AU
Scratch Vol.2, Prenelle Gallery, London, UK
A Century of Artist's Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London, UK
2003
Walking Off Court, Viper Festival Switzerland, Basel, CH
Walking Off Court, Media Art Festival Friesland, Holland, NL
Walking Off Court, New York Video Festival, New York, US
2002
Walking Off Court and I Was Once Involved In A Shit Show, Media Art Festival Friesland, Holland, UK
Walking Off Court and I Was Once Involved In A Shit Show, New York Video Festival, New York, US
Walking Off Court and I Was Once Involved In A Shit Show, LUX Open Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Walking Off Court and I Was Once Involved In A Shit Show, Tate Britain, London, UK
Absence of Satan, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Passing Ship, Landesgalerie, Linz, AT
2001
River Sky, ICA and National Film Theatre, London, UK
River Sky, Toronto International Video Art Biennial, Canada, UK
River Sky, Instituto De La Juventud, Madrid, ES
Upside Down Minutiae, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, DE
Slipstream, ICA, London, UK
Upside Down Minutiae, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, DE
2000
Discrepancy, The Citadel Arts Centre, St. Helens, UK
1999
Withdrawal, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
Impakt Festival, Utrecth, NL
Withdrawal, Videofest, Berlin, DE
1998
Withdrawal, New York Film & Video Festival, New York, US
Withdrawal, Viper Festival, Basel, CH
Effervescence, ICA, London, UK
1997
Withdrawal, ICA, London, UK
Arizona, W.R.O Media Art Biennale, Berlin, DE
Effervescence, ICA, London, UK
Arizona, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Arizona, W.R.O Media Art Biennale, Berlin, DE
Arizona, The Kitchen, New York, US
Arizona, Centre for Arts Hobart, Hobart, AU
Arizona, San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, US
Arizona, London Film Festival, London, UK
Passing Ship, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Passing Ship, Pompidou Centre, Paris, FR
1996
Passing Ship, Australian Film & Video Festival, London, UK
2008
First Prize, 24th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
2004
Grand Prix, Split Film & Video Festival, Split, HR
1998
Gold Award, ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz, AT
1996
Exploding Cinema Group, London, UK
1990
Gold Award, ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz, AT
Gold Award, Chicago Film Festival, Chicago, US
1986
D&AD Award, London, UK
2013
After/Hours/Drop/Box, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2004
Withdrawal, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2001
Time Based New Media, Surrey Institute of Design and Art, Surrey, UK
2005
George Barber - minigraph, by Gareth Evans and Paul Morley, Film and Video Umbrella, London, UK
London Gallery West Catalogue, by Michael Maziere, Gemini Press, UK
1988
Close-Up: Nick Logan, by Goerge Barber, Marxism Today, September, UK
1984
Looking at Pop Videos and Thinking About Other Things, by George Barber, Journal of Art and Education, UK
2013
George Barber at Dundee Contemporary Arts, by Steven Cairns, Frieze, February 2011
I Admint I'm a Bit Creepy…, by Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight and Sound, April 2013
The Freestone Drone, by Omar Kholeif, Art Agenda
The Freestone Drone, by Sean Cubitt, the_water_side, 02
Blurred Vissions, by Christy Lange, Frieze, May 2013
A Drone Goes Native, Dazed Digital
I Object, by Maria Walsch, Art Monthly, November 2013
View from a Kill, by Kate Rich, Mute
2009
George Barber: Beyond Language, Selected Video Works 1983-2008, by Martin Herbert, Art Monthly, 328 43
Starting from Scratch, by Ed Halter, Art Forum
by Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph, March 21
2005
Some Thoughts Behind the Image, by Gareth Evans, LUX online
2004
The Signs of L.A., by Marco Zee-Jotti, Filmwaves Magazine, Oct 2004
Shouting Match, Time Out Preview Section
George Barber New Work, London Gallery West, Time Out Preview Section
2001
Hanging Out With Artistry, by Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard
1996
Directory of British Film and Video Artists, by David Curtis, The Arts Council of England
1988
The Venetian Ghost, by Steven Bode, Independent Media, 77
Il Fenomeno Scratch, by Maria Rosa Sossai, Videovibe
1986
Scratching Deeper, by Michael O'Pray, Art Monthly