Stephanie Barber is an American writer and artist. She has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Many of her videos are concerned with the content, musicality and experiential QUALITIES
of language. They ferry viewers through philosophical inquiry with the unexpected oars of PLAY, emotionalism, story, and humor.Barber’s films and videos have has been screened nationally and internationally in solo show and group shows at MOMA, NY; The Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center, MN; MOCA Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for Art, OH, among other GALLERIES
, museums and festivals.Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films can be found at Canyon Cinema and Fandor.com. Her recent book Night Moves was published by Publishing Genius Press in 2013, other essays, stories and poems have been published in books, magazines and ONLINE JOURNALS
.James Glisson at Artforum wrote "...the films of Stephanie Barber engage universal themes—time, death, memory, forgetting, frustration." and Ed Halter at Afterall Online wrote "Barber...approaches cinema as a philosophical toy, intimately small, in which the play itself generates both pleasure and insight."
Her first feature, DAREDEVILS premiered at the New York Film Festival’s “Views from the Avant-Garde” and will screen at THE NATIONAL
Gallery in DC in September 2014.Barber is currently a RESIDENT
artist at The Mt. Royal MFA for Interdisciplinary Art at MICA in Baltimore, MD.
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