Barbara Takenaga is an artist living and working in New York City. Barbara grew up in Nebraska and got her BFA and MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Her recent solo exhibitions include DC Moore Gallery in NYC, Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco, and a 20-year survey at the Williams College Museum of Art, curated by Debra Bricker Balken, accompanied by a catalogue published by DelMonico Books|Prestel.  Her large-scale wall projects include Space/42 of the Neuberger Museum and the Hunter Lobby of MASS MoCA.  Other recent exhibitions include a two-person exhibition at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, a solo show at the Huntington Museum in WV and a group show, Chaos and Awe at the Frist Museum of Art in Nashville. 

Her work is in the collection of the Library of Congress in DC, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, The Museum of Nabraska art amongst many others. She has taught at Williams College, the University of Denver and Washington, St. Louis.

Brian stopped by Barbara’s Flatiron studio to talk about the great plains, feeling at home in New York, negative jazz and more.

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