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| name = Barbara Astman | name = Barbara Astman
| image = Barbara Astman.jpg | image = Barbara Astman.jpg
| caption = Barbara Astman in her studio | caption = Barbara Astman in her studio
⚫ | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|07|12}}
| birth_name = Barbara Anne Astman | birth_name = Barbara Anne Astman
⚫ | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|07|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rochester, New York, U.S. | birth_place = ], U.S.
| training = RIT (School for American Craftsmen), OCA | training = RIT (School for American Craftsmen), OCA
| awards = Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council | awards = Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council
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'''Barbara Astman''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born July 12, 1950) is a ] artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner self.<ref name="ago ">Georgiana Uhlyarik, "Dear Canadian Art, I was thinking about you...". Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO. Art Gallery of Ontario and Goose Lane Editions, 2023.</ref><ref>Enright, Robert. ''Border Crossings'' Issue #90, Vol. 23, No.1, May 2004, pp. 43-50</ref><ref>Holubizky, Ihor; ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' http://ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/c/writing/h/holubizky/hol004t.html{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> '''Barbara Anne Astman''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born 12 July 1950) is a Canadian artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner thoughts.<ref name="ago ">Georgiana Uhlyarik, "Dear Canadian Art, I was thinking about you...". Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO. Art Gallery of Ontario and Goose Lane Editions, 2023.</ref><ref>Enright, Robert. ''Border Crossings'' Issue #90, Vol. 23, No.1, May 2004, pp. 43–50</ref><ref name="canencyclo ">{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Karyn Elizabeth |title=Article |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/barbara-astman |website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |publisher=Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=1 June 2023}}</ref>


==Early life== ==Early life and career==
Astman was born in ], ], the second of three children of Bertha (née Meisel, a homemaker) and George Astman (an auto mechanic and salesman.) She received her associate degree at the ]'s School for American Craftsmen. In 1970, she moved to ], Canada to study at the ] (now OCAD University,) and graduated with an associate degree (A.O.C.A.). Astman was born in ], ], the second of three children of Bertha (née Meisel, a homemaker) and George Astman (an auto mechanic and salesman.) She received her associate degree at the ]'s School for American Craftsmen in 1970. That year, she moved to ], Canada to study at the ] (now OCAD University,) and graduated with an associate degree (A.O.C.A.) in 1973.<ref name="canencyclo " /> She joined the faculty of OCAD in 1975, served as chair of photography (2001–2002), and professor in the faculty of art (2002–2021). She retired in 2021 as professor ].<ref name="OCAD ">{{cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://www2.ocadu.ca/bio/barbara-astman |website=ocadu.ca |publisher=OCAD |access-date=2 June 2023}}</ref>


==Artistic career== ==Work==
Since the early 1970s Astman has explored a wide range of photo-based media and produced work, which has received recognition in Canada and abroad.<ref name="OCAD ">{{cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://www2.ocadu.ca/bio/barbara-astman |website=ocadu.ca |publisher=OCAD |access-date=2 June 2023}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/features/barbara-astman-2/|title=Barbara Astman: A Movie For One|last=guhlyarik|website=Canadian Art|language=en-US|access-date=7 March 2020}}</ref>
⚫ Astman's practice is partly composed of public art installations in Canada and abroad, including an installation at the Calgary ] in 1987. Recently, she completed a project for the new ], ]<ref>Government of Canada http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/germany-allemagne/offices-bureaux/embassy_art_ambassade.aspx?lang=eng {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604193420/http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/germany-allemagne/offices-bureaux/embassy_art_ambassade.aspx?lang=eng |date=2013-06-04 }}</ref> consisting of a ]ted glass tower wall. She joined the faculty of OCAD in 1975 and is a ] in the Faculty of Art.


Her first public solo exhibition immediately upon graduating from OCA (OCADU) was held in 1973, at Toronto's Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography. Two years later, the Still Photography Division of the ] of Canada renamed as the ], ] and now part of the ], hosted her first museum show.
==Early career==
In the 1970s, she began exploring ] technology and ] as a vehicle for art making. She moved to Toronto in 1970 to attend ].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/features/barbara-astman-2/|title=Barbara Astman: A Movie For One|last=guhlyarik|website=Canadian Art|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref> Wanting to explore the city she found inspiration in Kensington Market, Spadina Avenue and Queen Street West.<ref name="auto"/> Her first successful solo show was held in 1973, at Toronto's Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography. Two years later, the Still Photography Division of the ] of Canada now called the ], ] hosted her first museum show. Astman began the ''Colour Xerox Artist's Program'' at Visual Arts Ontario in 1977. She sat on the board of directors at the Art Gallery at Harbourfront (now called ]) from 1983 to 1985. Since then, other board positions have included: the City of Toronto, Public Art Commission; the Curatorial Team for the International WaterWorks Exhibition in 1988. Her initial commercial venture was the creation of the ] for the first '']'' ] for ].


Since then, she has had an extensive and prestigious solo exhibition history. Her major touring ] exhibition, ''Barbara Astman - Personal/Persona - A 20 Year Survey'' was curated by Liz Wylie (Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1995). In May 2011, her installation, ''Dancing with Che: Enter through the Gift Shop'' (Kelowna Art Gallery, 2013) toured across Canada. ''Barbara Astman: I as artifact'' featured a new series of works accompanied by a comprehensive publication (McIntosh Gallery, 2014) and ''Barbara Astman Looking: Then and Now'' (Corkin Gallery), a two-part exhibition received recognition in 2016.<ref name="OCAD " />
==Mid career==
Liz Wylie curated Astman's mid-career ], ''Barbara Astman: Person/Persona A 20 Year Survey Exhibition'' in 1995. It opened at the ], and then toured three other Canadian museums. The ] reopened in 2008, after a year's redevelopment by architect ]. Astman and AGO Assistant Curator ] were chosen to co-curate an exhibit focusing on ] and early ] practice.<ref>Murray, Joan; ''Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century'', Dundurn Press, 1999, pp168-170</ref>


She has been included in major group exhibitions, such as: ''Beautiful Fictions'' (AGO, 2009); ''Light My Fire Part I: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography'' (AGO, 2013); ''Herland'', (60 Wall Gallery, New York 2014);''Look Again: Colour Xerography Art Meets Technology'' (AGO, 2015); ''Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism'' (], 2016), and ''Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971–1989'' (AGO, 2016), among many others.<ref name="OCAD " /> In 2024, her work was included in the ]'s four-person exhibition featuring work from the permanent collection ''Animating the Figure with Photography'' along with the work of ], Adad Hannah, and ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.wag.ca/exhibitions/animating-the-figure-with-photography/ |website=www.wag.ca |publisher=Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2024 |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref>
Barbara Astman has been heavily inspired by stores, even creating her own as an art work: ''Dancing with Che: Enter Through the Gift Shop'' (2011–13).<ref name="auto"/> Che Guevara's face appears on mugs, plates, and other novelty goods, though none are for sale.<ref name="auto"/>


Astman is represented by Corkin Gallery, Toronto and Paul Kyle Gallery, Vancouver.<ref name="OCAD " />
She also works with fabrics and in 2013 Astman worked with designer Jeremy Liang to create a line of limited edition silk scarves based on her ''Newspaper Series'' (2006-2008) for Jonathan and Olivia fashion boutique in Toronto.<ref name="auto"/>


Her artist's archives are held in the ] Research Library & Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario.<ref name="ocad" /> Her artist's archives are held in the ] Research Library & Archives Special Collections, Art Gallery of Ontario.<ref>{{cite web |title=Special Collectiona |url=https://atom.ago.ca/index.php/astman-barbara |website=atom.ago.ca |publisher=Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives Special Collections |access-date=3 June 2023}}</ref>

==Commissions==
⚫ She has completed several public art commissions, including a floor installation for the Calgary ] (1987), a public art installation for the new ], ]<ref>Government of Canada http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/germany-allemagne/offices-bureaux/embassy_art_ambassade.aspx?lang=eng {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604193420/http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/germany-allemagne/offices-bureaux/embassy_art_ambassade.aspx?lang=eng |date=4 June 2013}}</ref> (2005), consisting of a ]ted glass tower wall; the Murano on Bay in Toronto consisted of 217 windows with photo-based imagery (2010); and a photographic installation (''The Fossil Book'') for the inaugural exhibition at the new ] (Toronto, 2013).<ref name="OCAD ">{{cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://www2.ocadu.ca/bio/barbara-astman |website=ocadu.ca |publisher=OCAD |access-date=2 June 2023}}</ref>

==Service to the arts community==
Astman has served on numerous boards and advisory committees, including the ]'s Board of Trustees (2009–2013) and as the chair of the Art Advisory Committee, ], Toronto and vice president, board of directors, prefix (ICA) Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto.

In addition, she has co-curated an installation titled ''The Emergence of Feminism: Changing the Course of Art'', featuring work by Joyce Wieland, Suzy Lake and Lisa Steele (AGO, 2008).<ref>Murray, Joan; ''Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century'', Dundurn Press, 1999, pp168–170</ref>


==Awards== ==Awards==
In 2000 she was elected to the ].<ref>The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts {{cite web |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/results.asp |title=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts - Académie royale des arts du Canada |accessdate=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804051014/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/results.asp |archivedate=2010-08-04 }}</ref> In 2000, she was elected to the ].<ref>The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts {{cite web |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/results.asp |title=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts - Académie royale des arts du Canada |access-date=16 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804051014/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/results.asp |archive-date=4 August 2010}}</ref> In 2024, she was awarded a ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Winners |url=https://en.ggarts.ca/barbara-astman |website=en.ggarts.ca |publisher=Governor General of Canada |access-date=7 March 2024}}</ref>


==Public collections== ==Public collections==
Astman is represented in important public, corporate and private collections in Canada and abroad including the ], Ottawa, the ], Paris, ], Toronto, Deutche Bank, New York, and the ], London.
⚫ Astman's work is held in the following permanent collections, among others:

⚫ * ], Queen's University, Kingston, ON<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://agnes.queensu.ca/explore/collections/search-the-collection/?kw=barbara+astman&c=&dr=200+-+2020&maker=&title=&medium=&credit= |website=agnes.queensu.ca |publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston |access-date=2021-06-25}}</ref>
⚫ The following permanent collections, among others, hold her work:
⚫ *], Hamilton, ON<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/collections/contemporary-collection/|title=Contemporary Collection|website=Art Gallery of Hamilton|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044454/https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/collections/contemporary-collection/|archive-date=2019-03-06|url-status=live}}</ref>
⚫ * ], Queen's University, Kingston, ON<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://agnes.queensu.ca/explore/collections/search-the-collection/?kw=barbara+astman&c=&dr=200+-+2020&maker=&title=&medium=&credit= |website=agnes.queensu.ca |publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston |access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref>
⚫ *], Toronto, ON<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ago.ca/collection/browse?related_artists%5B26322%5D=26322|title=The Collection {{!}} Art Gallery of Ontario|website=Art Gallery of Ontario|language=en|access-date=2018-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309061306/https://ago.ca/collection/browse?related_artists%5B26322%5D=26322|archive-date=2018-03-09|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>
⚫ *], Hamilton, ON<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/collections/contemporary-collection/|title=Contemporary Collection|website=Art Gallery of Hamilton|language=en-US|access-date=4 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044454/https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/collections/contemporary-collection/|archive-date=6 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
⚫ * ], Paris<ref name="ocad">{{cite web |title=Barbara Astman |url=https://www2.ocadu.ca/bio/barbara-astman |website=www2.ocadu.ca |date=15 February 2017 |publisher=OCAD |access-date=2021-06-25}}</ref>
⚫ *], Toronto, ON<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ago.ca/collection/browse?related_artists%5B26322%5D=26322|title=The Collection {{!}} Art Gallery of Ontario|website=Art Gallery of Ontario|language=en|access-date=8 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309061306/https://ago.ca/collection/browse?related_artists%5B26322%5D=26322|archive-date=9 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>
⚫ * ], Paris<ref name="ocad">{{cite web |title=Barbara Astman |url=https://www2.ocadu.ca/bio/barbara-astman |website=ocadu.ca |date=15 February 2017 |publisher=OCAD |access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref>
*], Burnaby, British Columbia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.burnabyartgallery.ca/ListDetail?q=src:library&p=82&ps=1&sort=creator_sort+asc|title=Barbara Astman: personal persona : a 20-year survey &#124; Art Gallery Collections|website=collections.burnabyartgallery.ca}}</ref> *], Burnaby, British Columbia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.burnabyartgallery.ca/ListDetail?q=src:library&p=82&ps=1&sort=creator_sort+asc|title=Barbara Astman: personal persona : a 20-year survey &#124; Art Gallery Collections|website=collections.burnabyartgallery.ca}}</ref>
* The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON<ref>{{cite web |last1=Astman |first1=Barbara|title=Works in the Collection |url=https://rmg.minisisinc.com/m3online/scripts/mwimain.dll/41/1/0?SEARCH&SHOWSINGLE=Y&ERRMSG=error.html |website=rmg.minisisinc.com |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa |accessdate=2020-06-13}}</ref> * The ], Oshawa, ON<ref>{{cite web |last1=Astman |first1=Barbara|title=Works in the Collection |url=https://rmg.minisisinc.com/m3online/scripts/mwimain.dll/41/1/0?SEARCH&SHOWSINGLE=Y&ERRMSG=error.html |website=rmg.minisisinc.com |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
* ], Rochester, New York<ref>{{Cite web|title=Collections|url=https://collections.eastman.org/people/3168/barbara-astman/objects|access-date=4 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043809/https://collections.eastman.org/search/barbara%20astman|archive-date=6 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> * ], Rochester, New York<ref>{{Cite web|title=Collections|url=https://collections.eastman.org/people/3168/barbara-astman/objects|access-date=4 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043809/https://collections.eastman.org/search/barbara%20astman|archive-date=6 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
* McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://mcintoshgallery.ca/Resources/collection.html |website=mcintoshgallery.ca |publisher=Mcintosh Gallery, London, Ontario |access-date=2021-06-25}}</ref> * McIntosh Gallery, ], London, ON<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://mcintoshgallery.ca/Resources/collection.html |website=mcintoshgallery.ca |publisher=Mcintosh Gallery, London, Ontario |access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref>
*]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/69113/untitled-9?ctx=995c606531e832a6c258ec3f8e33b954a7b6cf73&idx=0 | title=Untitled #9 &#124; All Works &#124; the MFAH Collections }}</ref> *]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/69113/untitled-9?ctx=995c606531e832a6c258ec3f8e33b954a7b6cf73&idx=0 | title=Untitled #9 &#124; All Works &#124; the MFAH Collections}}</ref>
* ], Ottawa<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/barbara-astman|title=Barbara Astman|website=www.gallery.ca}}</ref> * ], Ottawa<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/barbara-astman|title=Barbara Astman|website=gallery.ca}}</ref>
*The ] Art Museum<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collections.artmuseum.utoronto.ca:8080/objects/8906/barbara-astman;jsessionid=29E05714DF366A567DF657E0E88EAC4C?ctx=cac7ad71-b7c9-412a-b0fa-d89cad4da588&idx=237|title=Barbara Astman &#124; Works &#124; eMuseum &#124; UofT Art Museum}}</ref> *The ] Art Museum<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collections.artmuseum.utoronto.ca:8080/objects/8906/barbara-astman;jsessionid=29E05714DF366A567DF657E0E88EAC4C?ctx=cac7ad71-b7c9-412a-b0fa-d89cad4da588&idx=237|title=Barbara Astman &#124; Works &#124; eMuseum &#124; UofT Art Museum}}</ref>
*]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/the-art-of-light/|title=The Art of Light|date=19 March 2020}}</ref> *]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/the-art-of-light/|title=The Art of Light|date=19 March 2020}}</ref>
* ], London<ref name="ocad" /> * ], London<ref name="ocad" />
* ], Winnipeg, MB<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://www.wag.ca/art/collections/search/?search_type=advanced&collection=&title=&artist=barbara+astman&medium=&type=&country=&accession=&date= |website=www.wag.ca |publisher=Winnipeg Art Gallery |access-date=2021-06-25}}</ref> * ], Winnipeg, MB<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://www.wag.ca/art/collections/search/?search_type=advanced&collection=&title=&artist=barbara+astman&medium=&type=&country=&accession=&date= |website=wag.ca |publisher=Winnipeg Art Gallery |access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref>


==Critical reception== ==Critical reception==
] magazine featured a profile of Astman's career in the Spring 2014 issue.<ref name="OCAD " />


'''''The Clementine Suite''''' '''''The Clementine Suite'''''
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'''''Wonderland''''' '''''Wonderland'''''
:"Intimate, personal, and quietly enthralling."<ref>Whyte, Murray, ''Toronto Star'', ''Wonderland'' Nov. 16, 2009. http://thestar.blogs.com/untitled/2009/11/barbara-astmans-wonderland-at-jane-corkin.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725135946/http://thestar.blogs.com/untitled/2009/11/barbara-astmans-wonderland-at-jane-corkin.html |date=2011-07-25 }}.</ref> :"Intimate, personal, and quietly enthralling."<ref>Whyte, Murray, ''Toronto Star'', ''Wonderland'' Nov. 16, 2009. http://thestar.blogs.com/untitled/2009/11/barbara-astmans-wonderland-at-jane-corkin.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725135946/http://thestar.blogs.com/untitled/2009/11/barbara-astmans-wonderland-at-jane-corkin.html |date=25 July 2011}}.</ref>


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Canadian artist (born 1950)

Barbara Astman
Barbara Astman in her studio
BornBarbara Anne Astman
(1950-07-12) 12 July 1950 (age 74)
Rochester, New York, U.S.
EducationRIT (School for American Craftsmen), OCA
AwardsOntario Arts Council, Canada Council
Websitewww.barbaraastman.com

Barbara Anne Astman RCA (born 12 July 1950) is a Canadian artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner thoughts.

Early life and career

Astman was born in Rochester, New York, the second of three children of Bertha (née Meisel, a homemaker) and George Astman (an auto mechanic and salesman.) She received her associate degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen in 1970. That year, she moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to study at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University,) and graduated with an associate degree (A.O.C.A.) in 1973. She joined the faculty of OCAD in 1975, served as chair of photography (2001–2002), and professor in the faculty of art (2002–2021). She retired in 2021 as professor emerita.

Work

Since the early 1970s Astman has explored a wide range of photo-based media and produced work, which has received recognition in Canada and abroad.

Her first public solo exhibition immediately upon graduating from OCA (OCADU) was held in 1973, at Toronto's Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography. Two years later, the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada renamed as the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa and now part of the National Gallery of Canada, hosted her first museum show.

Since then, she has had an extensive and prestigious solo exhibition history. Her major touring retrospective exhibition, Barbara Astman - Personal/Persona - A 20 Year Survey was curated by Liz Wylie (Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1995). In May 2011, her installation, Dancing with Che: Enter through the Gift Shop (Kelowna Art Gallery, 2013) toured across Canada. Barbara Astman: I as artifact featured a new series of works accompanied by a comprehensive publication (McIntosh Gallery, 2014) and Barbara Astman Looking: Then and Now (Corkin Gallery), a two-part exhibition received recognition in 2016.

She has been included in major group exhibitions, such as: Beautiful Fictions (AGO, 2009); Light My Fire Part I: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography (AGO, 2013); Herland, (60 Wall Gallery, New York 2014);Look Again: Colour Xerography Art Meets Technology (AGO, 2015); Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism (McMaster Museum of Art, 2016), and Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971–1989 (AGO, 2016), among many others. In 2024, her work was included in the Winnipeg Art Gallery's four-person exhibition featuring work from the permanent collection Animating the Figure with Photography along with the work of Donigan Cumming, Adad Hannah, and Stephen Livick.

Astman is represented by Corkin Gallery, Toronto and Paul Kyle Gallery, Vancouver.

Her artist's archives are held in the E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives Special Collections, Art Gallery of Ontario.

Commissions

She has completed several public art commissions, including a floor installation for the Calgary Winter Olympics (1987), a public art installation for the new Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany (2005), consisting of a fritted glass tower wall; the Murano on Bay in Toronto consisted of 217 windows with photo-based imagery (2010); and a photographic installation (The Fossil Book) for the inaugural exhibition at the new Koffler Gallery (Toronto, 2013).

Service to the arts community

Astman has served on numerous boards and advisory committees, including the Art Gallery of Ontario's Board of Trustees (2009–2013) and as the chair of the Art Advisory Committee, Koffler Gallery, Toronto and vice president, board of directors, prefix (ICA) Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto.

In addition, she has co-curated an installation titled The Emergence of Feminism: Changing the Course of Art, featuring work by Joyce Wieland, Suzy Lake and Lisa Steele (AGO, 2008).

Awards

In 2000, she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy. In 2024, she was awarded a Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

Public collections

Astman is represented in important public, corporate and private collections in Canada and abroad including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Deutche Bank, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The following permanent collections, among others, hold her work:

Critical reception

Canadian Art magazine featured a profile of Astman's career in the Spring 2014 issue.

The Clementine Suite

"...a celebration of the human spirit."

Dancing With Che

"...echoes across more than a century of technological innovation and evolution of the medium".
"Audacious, humorous, improbable."

Wonderland

"Intimate, personal, and quietly enthralling."

References

  1. Georgiana Uhlyarik, "Dear Canadian Art, I was thinking about you...". Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO. Art Gallery of Ontario and Goose Lane Editions, 2023.
  2. Enright, Robert. Border Crossings Issue #90, Vol. 23, No.1, May 2004, pp. 43–50
  3. ^ Allen, Karyn Elizabeth. "Article". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Faculty". ocadu.ca. OCAD. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  5. ^ guhlyarik. "Barbara Astman: A Movie For One". Canadian Art. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  6. "Exhibitions". www.wag.ca. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  7. "Special Collectiona". atom.ago.ca. Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives Special Collections. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  8. Government of Canada http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/germany-allemagne/offices-bureaux/embassy_art_ambassade.aspx?lang=eng Archived 4 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Murray, Joan; Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, Dundurn Press, 1999, pp168–170
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