Aideen Barry

Aideen Barry, (b. 1979, Cork, Ireland), is an Irish multimedia and performance artist. She graduated from Galway Mayo Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Distinction) in 2002 and from IADT DUN Laoighre with a masters in Visual Art in 2007.

Barry received the "Hewlett Packard Award" for her 2002 Exhibition "The Futility of Conveying Emotion". In 2003 she had her first international solo show in the "Centre Culturel Irlandais", Paris, for Bloomsday. Her work "the Futility of Conveying Emotion" has been shown in Paris, Lorient, London and Shanghai. In 2004, Barry received the "Tyrone Guthrie Award", the "Sculpture in Context Prize" and a "Galway County Council Bursary" from the Galway County Arts Office. She also received the top prize at the "Claremorris Open" which was adjudicated by David Thorpe of the 2004 Turner Prize. In 2006 she won the best experimental film award from the Silent Light Super 8 film festival. She showed in the Kilkenny Arts Festival, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, The Fenton Gallery and Tulca 2006.

In 2005, Barry represented Irish Contemporary Performance as she was invited to part take in Cork 2005, The European Capital of Culture.

She sits on the board of the Galway Civic Trust, the Tulca Festival of Visual Art and G126 Gallery (www.g126.eu). She exhibits in Montreal, (Canada), Skatfield (Iceland), and in various shows in Ireland in 2007 and 2008.