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CURRICULUM VITAE
B I O G R A P H Y
Lisa Barnard (*1967) is a British artist, researcher and teacher whose photographic practice focuses on real events, using polymorphic strategies. Her projects use both traditional documentary techniques, such as photography, audio, video and text, and more contemporary visual techniques and computer forms. Barnard combines her interest in aesthetics and current debates around the materiality of photography with the political climate within critical projects, centered on new ecologies, new technologies, science and the military-industrial complex.
“Barnard describes herself as a photographic artist, but her work appears unmistakably political. It pays homage to the tropes of documentary realism, while sabotaging them. – Sean O Hagan, The Guardian, reviewer for Chateau Despair.
Barnard is Associate Professor and Head of the Masters Program in Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales. In addition to regularly exhibiting her projects, she has published three monographs, including two with GOST (Chateau Despair, supported by the Arts Council and Hyenas of the Battlefield, and Machines in the Garden, supported by the Albert Renger-Patzsch Prize) . Her third publication, The Canary and the Hammer, was published by MACK.
C O N T A C T
email: lisa.barnard@virgin.net
mobile: +447796374237
twitter: @lisacbarnard
insta: @lisacbarnard
MONOGRAPHS
2019 | The Canary and the Hammer. MACK
2014 | Hyenas of the Battlefield Machines in the Garden. GOST
2012 | Chateau Despair. GOST
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 | The Canary and the Hammer, The Centre of Photography, Geneva, Switzerland.
2021 | The Non-Logistical Mother, Fotomuseum, Wintherthur2020 | The Horizon is Moving Nearer, The Canary and the Hammer.
2021 | The Real and The Record, MOMUS Thessaloniki. Mathieu Asselin, Lisa Barnard, Alexis Vassilikos, Alexandra Bell, Matthew Booth, David Claerbout, Crofton Black & Edmund Clark, Kyriaki Goni, Sara Cwynar, Antoine d’Agata, Forensic Architecture, Formafantasma – Andrea Trimarchi & Simone Farresin, Konstantinos Zirganos-Kazoleas, Giorgos Karailias, Teresa Margolles, Giorgos Moutafis, Max Pinckers, Allan Sekula, Jeffrey Stuker, Walid Raad, UNITED for International Action (international network), Carmen Winant, Zoe Hatzigiannakis. Curated by Katerina Stathopoulos and Giorgos Prinos
2020 | The Horizon is Moving Nearer, Porto Portugal. Lisa Barnard, Poulomi Basu, Nacy Burson, Maxime Matthys, Gideon Mendel, Simon Roberts, Salvatore Vitale, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. Curated by Tim Clark and Alex Merola.
2019 | Her Ground, Flowers Gallery. London. Lisa Barnard, Maja Daniels, Rikke Flensberg, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Mina Kuhn, Kristin, Man, Anastasia Samoylova, Corinne Silva, Dafna Talmor.
2017 | The War From Here, Krakow, Poland. Artists: Lisa Barnard, Nina Berman, Monica Haller, Sophie Ristelhueber, Martha Rosler Curator: Gordon MacDonald
2011 | Maggie. Photo50 London Art Fair. Curated by Celia Davis for Photoworks with David Spero.
2018 | Guernsey Photography Festival: Political Landscape - Gate House Gallery,Guernsey, United Kingdom
2015 | ‘Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, Southern China. Curated by François Cheval
2015 | ‘Discovery Award‘. Rencontres D’Arles, France. Nominated by Louise Clements
2014 | ‘Maggie’ Artist of the Day, Flowers Gallery Cork Street, London
2011 | Maggie Coop Building. Curated by Brighton Photo Biennale Fringe alongside Simon Roberts.
2010. Bringing the War Home. Impressions Gallery. Curated by Pippa Oldfield with Peter van Agtmael, Sama Alshaibi, Frahad Ahrania, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Edmund Clark, Kay May, Asef Ali Mohammad and Christopher Sims.
2009 | Polska by the Sea. Eastbourne train Station. Funded by Lewes Live Literature.
2008 Virtual Iraq. Phoenix Place, Lewes. Brighton Photo Biennale Fringe.
2007 | Theatres of War. Schindler Factory, Krakow, Poland. Curated by Mark Power with Luc Delahaye, Geert van Kesteren, Chris Stewart and Donovan Wylie
2007 | Looking at Theatre. Unicorn Theatre, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 | Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production. MKG Hamburg. Ignacio Acosta, Lisa Barnard, F& D Cartier, Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio (Lauren Bon, Tristan Duke, Richard Nielsen), Klasse Digitale Grafik HFBK (Mari Lebanidze, Cleo Miao, Leon Schwer und Marco Wesche), Susanne Kriemann, Mary Mattingly, Daphné Nan Le Sergent, Lisa Rave, Alison Rossiter, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Anaïs Tondeur, James Welling, Noa Yafe, Tobias Zielony. Curated Esther Reulfs and Boaz Levin
2022 | Intersectional Geographies. Ignacio Acosta / Rhiannon Adam / Lisa Barnard Jacqueline Ennis-Cole / Darek F Martin Parr Foundation. ortas Roshini Kempadoo / Miranda Pennell / Judy Rabinowitz Price / Xavier Ribas / David Severn / Aida Silvestri / Janine Wiedel Curated by Jacqueline Ennis Cole.
2022 | Contested Landscapes, Bienaali Mannheim. Aàdesokan, Lisa Barnard, Awoiska van der Molen, Rune Peitersen, Yan Wang Preston, Małgorzata Stankiewicz, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Misha Vallejo Prut. Curated by Iris Sikking.
2021 | Made in X. Extra City. Monira Al Qadiri, Sammy Baloji, Lisa Barnard, CATPC, Yelena Popova, Raqs Media Collective, Ghita Skali en Bert Villa.Curated Joachim Naudts
2017 | Ahead Still Lies Our Future, QUAD Gallery. Format Festival Lida Adbul, Lisa Barnard, Ursula Biemann, Kenta Cobayashi, Hannah Darabi, Sohrab Hura, Zhang Jungang, Wanuri Kahiu, Ester Vonplon and Sadie Wechsler.
2015 | Evidence FORMAT festival, Derbyshire. Curated by Louise Clements
2015 | SENSOR FOTOFEST Houston, Texas. USA Curated by Jennifer Ward Lisa Barnard (UK) David Birkin (UK/USA) James Bridle (UK) Mahwish Chisty (Pakistan/USA) Trevor Paglen (USA) Pitch Interactive (USA)
2013 | Engines of War. Gasser and Grunert New York. Co-curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy. Lisa Barnard, David Cotterrell, Jamel Shabazz, Benjamin Lowy, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Eugene Richards, Anthony Suau, Christopher Morris, Teun Voeten and Heather Ainsworth 2011 | XXI: Conflicts in a New Century. Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas. Co-curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy with images by Stephanie Sinclair, JamesNachtwey, Chris Anderson, Jamel Shabazz, Eugene Richards, Christopher Morris, Lori Grinker, Rania Matar and Oak Cliff-based independent photographers Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson; British photographers Lisa Barnard, Tim Hetherington and Gary Knight; Middle East photojournalist Natan Dvir; and African photographers Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria), Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Fatagoma Silue (Ivory Coast).
2011| Collateral Damage LOOK photography festival in Liverpool. Curated by Paul Lowe and Harry Hardie with images by Simon Norfolk, Tim Hetherington, Zijah Gafic, Paul Lowe, Edmund Clark, Ashley Gilbertson, Brett Van Ort, Mishka Henner, Adam Broomberg and Olivier Chanarin
SELECTED AWARDS
2017 | Fuji for ‘The Canary and The Hammer’
2015 | Winner of the Getty Images Prestige Grant
2015 | Winner of the Genesis and Fujifilm Production Award for ‘Whiplash Tranistion’
2012 | Albert Renger-Patzsche Award
2011 | Arts Council South East Individual Award. Whiplash Transition
2008 | Danny Wilson Memorial Award Brighton Photo Biennial
2008 | Arts Council South East Individual Award. Virtual Iraq
2007 | Pool of London Partnership Individual Award. Unicorn Theatre
2006/7 | Arts Council London/South East Individual Award. Unicorn Theatre
2005 | Nagoya University Brighton Award
2005 | Runner up Guardian Student Media Awards