Audrey Barcio (born 1978) is an American interdisciplinary visual artist.^[1][2][3][4] She is based in Chicago, IL.^[5][6] Barcio is an Assistant Professor of Art at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.^[7][8]

Education and early life

Barcio was born in Lafayette, Indiana.^[9] Her grandmother was a painter. She taught Barcio how to paint and had her mix her paints for her when she went blind.^[10] Barcio is a former flight attendant and sommelier.^[11] Barcio earned a Bachelor of Arts from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She attended the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France and was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center.^[12]

Exhibitions

• Streetlight, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL^[13]
• Urban Legends, Columbia College Chicago Library, Chicago, IL^[14]
• Sapientia Gloria Corona Est, New Harmony Contemporary, New Harmony, Indiana^[15]
• Human Contact, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV^[16]
• Plural, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV^[17]
• Under Influence, Tube Factory Artspace, Indianapolis, IN^[18][19][20]
• Masking, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV^[21]
• Space Between, Donna Beam Gallery, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV^[22]
• Marking Time, Random Access, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY^[23][24]
• Art in America at the Art Miami Satellite Fair^[25]
• 2014 Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival^[26]

Public Installations

• Continual Eventual, Clark County Government Center Rotunda, Las Vegas Nevada^[27]
• The Art Motel, Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival^[28]
• Departure, Indianapolis, IN^[29]
• Strata (with Rebecca Pugh), Las Vegas City Hall^[30][31]

Awards

• 2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award^[32][33]
• 2017 Vermont Studio Center Residency^[34]
• 2014 City of Las Vegas Certificate of Public Art^[35]
• 2007 Indianapolis Cultural Development Public Art Grant^[36]

Publications

Barcio's work has been featured in New American Paintings,^[37][38] Las Vegas Weekly,^[39] NUVO (newspaper),^[40] Las Vegas Review-Journal,^[41] OCCHI Magazine,^[42] Pattern Magazine,^[43] Create Magazine,^[44] and on the Round Table radio show.^[45][46]

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