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CHELLE
BARBOUR
visual artist
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Chelle Barbour is an interdisciplinary visual artist, cultural producer, and independent curator. While her initial foray into the arts began in theatre, Chelle's art has expanded into a fully engaged practice of collage and mixed media design, writing, and photography Chelle's artwork has been presented in solo, gallery and museum exhibitions. Her collage and photographic works are in the permanent collections of the California African American Museum, the Photographic Archive at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Wende Museum, Bank of America Collection, The Richard Seavest Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and other private art collections.
As an institutional collaborator, Chelle has participated in international panel discussions at The Wende Museum exhibition for The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain, she was a symposium moderator for We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1960-1985 at CAAM, and a discussant on the lively College Art Association panel, How Will Feminist Culture Engage the Future?" Chelle has led collage workshops, lectures, and conversations at UC Riverside, LACMA, Azusa Pacific University, Vassar College, Harvey Gantt Center for African America Art , Kidspace Museum, Riverside Art Museum, and other. For institutional collaborations, workshops, art acquisitions or commissions, or please email chellebarbourstudio@gmail.com.
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST PRACTICE
EXPERIENCEO
02 VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION
2011-2013
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS & DESIGN
Graduate School
2004-2007
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA ROSKI SCHOOL
OF FINE ARTS & DESIGN
Art School
Current Exhibitions:
Descent and Transformation: Voyage to the Americas
Residency Gallery, Inglewood, CA
Nov. 9th - Dec. 21, 2024
Converge + Vertex
Santa Monica College Barret Gallery
Thru May 2024
Juxtaposing Afro-Surrealism
Granary Arts, Ephraim, Utah
February 7 - May 3, 2024
Colliding Visions, Riverside Art Museum
Thru October 15, 2023
I Have Paid a Price for My Commitment Transformative Arts (DTLA)
Thru October 15, 2023
Thank you!
Email:
Tel: 323-246-6293
Address:
200 S. Barrington Ave.#491364
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Social Media:
IG: @chelle.barbour
IG:@chelle.barbour.artist
CONTACT
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