This episode, we are thrilled to be joined by brilliantly creative artist Barbara Kasten. Based in Chicago, Illinois, Barbara originally trained as a painter and textile artist at the University of Arizona (BFA), the California College of Arts & Crafts (MFA), before turning to photography in the early 1970s. 

Working for over 40 years, she frequently uses mirrors, lights, and props for conceptually-based pieces that explore notions of perception and reality, figuration and abstraction. 

Barbara’s work has been exhibited extensively around the world. In 2015, she was given her first (and long overdue) survey of her work at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Since then, she has been the subject of solo exhibitions at major institutions including the Aspen Museum of Art and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Wolfsburg, Germany. Last fall, she was the subject of yet another solo exhibition at the prestigious Sammlung Goetz in Munich, Germany. Her work is also in the permanent collection of many exceptional institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate in London, and the Pompidou in Paris.

Barbara is also a widely lauded thinker and the recipient of multiple awards and prizes. She holds the position of Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago and was notably the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

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