Barbara Balfour

Canadá / Canada

York University, Toronto

Barbara Balfour es una artista basada en Toronto cuya práctica explora la relación entre texto e imagen. La investigación sobre prácticas artísticas que toman el texto como base informa sus libros, múltiples e instalaciones.

Balfour, quien exhibe internacionalmente, también desarrolla proyectos curatoriales y de escritura y residencias. Su ensayo "The What and the Why of Print", originalmente en Printopolis (Open Studio), fue publicado en Print matters: an anthology of critical texts on contemporary prints and printmaking since 1986.

Balfour enseña medios impresos y teoría en el Departamento de Artes Visuales e Historia del Arte en la Universidad de York.

Barbara Balfour is a Toronto-based artist whose print practice involves the relationship between the textual and the visual. Her research into text-based art practices and succinct expressions of complex thought inform her artists’ books, multiples, and print-installation. Exhibiting internationally, Balfour also undertakes curatorial projects, critical writing, and residencies. Her essay “The What and the Why of Print”, originally in Printopolis (Open Studio), appears in Print matters: an anthology of critical texts on contemporary prints and printmaking since 1986 (MUP). Professor Balfour teaches print media and theory in the Department of Visual Art and Art History, York University.