Solo Exhibitions:
2022 I need a Guru, Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL, Ashville, NC
2022 Weaving Grids, Periphery Space @ Paper Nautilus, Providence, RI
2018 Simile + Metaphor: Red Necklace, Weil Gallery at Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2017 Vivid Forms: Cut Paper and Installations, Teaching Gallery at HVCC, Troy, NY
2017 Tangible Lines, The Lionheart Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY
2016 Inflorescence, Jamestown Arts Center, (Small Gallery), Jamestown, RI
2016 Seeing Things, AS220 Project Space (Reading Room), Providence, RI
2015 Paper is the Material, The Hunter Gallery, St. Georges School, Newport, RI
2014 Under the Influence, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2012 Fragments, AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI
2012 Fresh Cut, Knight Campus Art Gallery, CCRI, Warwick, RI
2011 Repetition Obsession, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2010 From the Studio, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Group Exhibitions:
2023 Stratigraphy: Celebrating Layering in the Arts, Arts Letters & Numbers studios, Averill Park, NY
All Fools Show, Icebox4 Space for Artists, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Fear to Tread, Galleries at Roger William University, Bristol, RI
Painting at Night, Artist/Mother Podcast Exhibition, juried by Judith Braun, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Red, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (Best in show) juried by Dina Deitsch, Director and Chief Curator at Tufts University Art Galleries
2021 Holiday, LABspace, Hilldale, NY
Luminous, Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
Monochrome, WoArt Online Exhibit
2020 Untitled Art Fair, SVA Galleries, Miami Beach OVR
2020 Visions, SVA Galleries, New York, NY
Theme: Qua-ART-tine, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
2019 Floralism, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Cut & Paste, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
Non-location specific, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
Brush Coat Cover: 2019 Wheaton Biennial, Beard & Weil Galleries at Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Cut & Paste, Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI
Dot Conference, curated by Kristin Lamb, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY
UnCover: Altered Books, Periphery Space @ Paper Nautilus, Providence, RI
2017 Summer Dreams and Myth, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
Inhabited Spaces, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2016 The Variable Line: Master Drawings, Renaissance to Contemporary, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, RI
Journey's Tail, Green Space, T.F. Green Airport, Warwick, RI. Program funded by Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Parallel Developments: Suzanne Kammin, Barbara Owen and Laura Petrovich-Cheney, The Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI
NetWorks RI, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Blanc de Blanc, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
2015 Paper Space, The Lionheart Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY
Curious Surfaces, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Summer Group Show, The Lionheart Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY
Richard Creighton and Barbara Owen, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Newport Annual, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2014 Paper Made, Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI
Summer Group, The Lionheart Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY
Current, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Merge, Warwick Art Museum, Warwick, RI
4th All Media Exhibition, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Obsessive Compulsive Order, University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
Newport Annual, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI (Honorable Mention)
2013 Within, Candita Clayton Gallery, Providence, RI
Nature Contained, Curated by Brooke Goldstien, Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, RI
Locally Sourced, Curated by Robert Stack, Craftland Gallery, Providence, RI
Sum of all Parts: Collage and Assemblage, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
Summer Splendor, Biannual South Kingstown Education Foundation Auction, Wakefield, RI
Contained, PAC Gallery, Pawtucket, RI
Maquette and Small Sculpture, Franconia Sculpture Park, Casket Gallery, Franconia, MN
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Foundation Show, PAC Gallery, Pawtucket, RI (Honorable Mention)
Members Show, Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI, (Honorable Mention)
Newport Annual, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, (Honorable Mention)
2012 All Media Exhibition, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Newport Annual, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
A Dozen Artists, Wakefield, RI
Occupy#, Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, RI
Glue, Paper, Scissors, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Imagined Birds, Central Church, Providence, RI
2011 We talk about Architecture, Architecture talks back, Knight Campus Art Gallery, CCRI, Warwick, RI
Espresso, Work by Luis Villanueva and Barbara Owen, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Summer Splendor, Biannual South Kingstown Education Foundation Auction, Wakefield, RI
2010 Material Desires, Craftland Gallery, Providence, RI
2009 Sensorial, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Strange Birds, Myopic Books Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Providence Art Windows, (PAW), Providence, RI
Spring, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2003 Don’t Fence Me In, The Arts Center Of the Capitol Region, Troy, New York
Members Show, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont
Residencies
2015 Studios at MASS MoCA/Assets for Artists Residency, North Adams, MA, Artist Residency
2000 Dorland Arts Colony, Temecula, California Artist in Residence
1999 & 2002 Brydcliffe Artist Colony/Woodstock Arts Guild, Woodstock, NY Artist in Residence
Addresses
2022 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Painting Department, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Visiting Artist/Lecture for “Material Meaning” Class, taught by faculty Mara Metcalf, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2018 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2017 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, The Teaching Gallery, HVCC, Troy, NY
2016 Guest Critic, INTAR Summer Program, RISD, Providence, RI
2015 Guest Critic, INTAR Summer Program, RISD, Providence, RI
2015 Reviewer, Graduate Portfolio Review, RISD, Providence, RI
2015 Guest Speaker/Panel Discussion, SWAN (Support Women Artists Now), Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Curatorial Projects
2016-17 Founded Periphery Space, Pawtucket, RI
2017 Backstory, co-curated with Jon Laustsen
Grids
Peter Richards: the flowers not here yet, the flowers gone
Emma Holmes: Schizm
Kim Salinas Silva: You can’t stop me
2016 Markus Berger: Re-Making
Tina Tryforos: Imperfect Paradise
Robert Paasch: Reality Duality, Paintings from the Open Block Grid Series
2012 Rock Paper Scissors, co-curated with Francoise McAree, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Professional Experience
Art Handler, Various projects working with the De Kooning Estate, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Miller Collection, at Judson Art Warehouse, Inc., Long Island City, New York
Artist/Exhibit Preparator, Staten Island Children’s Museum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Sculpture Assistantship, Lee Tribe Studio, New York, New York,
Sculpture Assistantship, Brower Hatcher Studio, Diamond Point, New York,
Created original art featured in the following articles and print:
J Crew Magazine, IKEA, The Company Store, Country Living Magazine, Family Circle Magazine, Bixie’s Café, Long Beach, New York
Education
Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
Bachelor of Arts, Interdivisional Major, Poetry and Sculpture, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Bibliography:
Kors, Stacey, "The Circle Game", Take Magazine, December 2016
Tourney, Helena, "Artist Profile: Babs Owen", The Independent, November 2016
Castro, Alexander, "See It Before It's Gone: Barbara Owen at Hunter Gallery", Big, Red and Shiny, November 2015
Murphy, Linda, "Creighton, Owen Recognized for Whimsical Abstract Art", The Herald News, May 2015
Volmer, Suzanne, "Walking the walk, Revitalizing Pawtucket's Art Scene", ArtScope Magazine(print), Dec 2014
Volmer, Suzanne, “Paper Made at Jamestown Art Center”, ArtScope Magazine (online) August 2014
Gillette, Jamie “Paper Perfect”, Newport Mercury, July 2014
Wilkinson, Don “Obsessive Compulsive draws viewers into the vortex” South Coast Today, February 2014
Scharf, Lauren “ Obsessive Compulsive Order” at the Star Store, The Torch, January 2014
Wilkinson, Don “Barbara Owen’s Art is Wonderfully Loopy”, The Standard Times, January 2014
Tomaiolo, Kristen “Wakefield Artists Shine in Newport”, The Independent, March 2103
Phelps, Megan “Little Pieces of the Spectrum”, The Unfiltered Lens, February 2013
Cook, Greg “Ocean Statement”, The Providence Pheonix, September, 2013
Van Siclen, Bill “Locally Sourced at Providence’s Craftland”, The Providence Journal, September, 2013
Doucette, Renee “Fragments by Barbara Owen at AS220 Project Space”, Art Rogue Island, December 2012
Publications:
Studio Visit, Volume 9, 2010, International Edition
Collect, Fall 2012