Barbara Kasten

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Barbara Kasten lives and works in Chicago. She received her BFA from the University of Arizona in 1959 and MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1970. Her work has been extensively exhibited across the United States and in Europe. Most recently, Kasten was the subject of a major survey exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, which traveled to Sammlung Goetz, Germany. Her other recent exhibitions include Barbara Kasten: Scenarios, Aspen Art Museum (2020–21); Women in Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (2021); the 2020 Busan Biennale, Words at an Exhibition: an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, South Korea; Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern, London (2018); Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; and STAGES, a retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia that traveled to the Graham Foundation in Chicago and the MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles (2015–16). A forthcoming solo presentation will open at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, in June 2024. Her photographs have been collected by numerous museums and private individuals, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago.
Recent monographs include STAGES (2015), WORKS (2020), and Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2022).