Barnaby Furnas was born and raised in Philadelphia and lives and works in NYC. Barnaby earned his BFA at the School of Visual Arts and his MFA at Columbia Univeristy.

Barnaby has had solo shows at Marianne Boesky Gallery staring in 2002. He’s also had solos at The Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Victoria Miro in London, the MCA in Denver, Anthony Meier in San Francisco amongst many others.

He’s had tons of group shows too numerous to list but highlights would be the MCA Tuscon, the Frist in Nashville, the Albright Knox, The Warhol Museum, etc.

His work has been covered in all the art publications and he’s in the collections of the Albright Knox, the MCA in Chicago, the MCA in LA, SFMOMA, the Whitney and more.

Brian met up with Barnaby at his solo show which just finished up at Boesky titled “Frontier Ballads” and they talked about his early graffiti days in Philly, how he found his physical approach to painting, flirting with jail time and much more.