DAVID BARNES
MFA UMass Dartmouth
BFA University of New Hampshire
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
2021 Abbey Fellowship, British School in Rome (finalist)
2019 Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship
2018 The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant
2018 RISCA Grant (Rhode Island State Council on the Arts)
2016 Pollack Krasner Grant
2009 Artist Grant Vermont Studio Center (deferred)
2007 Berkshire Taconic Individual Artist Grant
2007 Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship “Finalist”
2001 Fall River Cultural Council Grant
2001 Best of Show Newport Art Museum Juried Members Show
2000 Fall River Cultural Council Grant
SELECTED ONE and TWO PERSON EXHIBITION HISTORY
2021 "Terrain Vague"Atelier Newport, Newport RI
2017 "Signs of Intelligent Life” Roger Williams Art Gallery, SAAHP Bristol RI
"The View from Plato's Man Cave” Atelier Newport, Newport
"Lucis et Umbrae” Van Vessem Gallery. Tiverton RI
2013 "David Barnes New Paintings” Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill MA
“Crisis and Transcendence” University of Rhode Island Gallery, Kingston RI 2010 “New Paintings” by David Barnes Didi Sudyam Contemporary, Newport RI
“New Paintings” by David Barnes 5 Traverse Gallery, Providence Rhode Island 2006 “As Seen on T.V.” Drury and Grosvenor Center for the Arts St. Georges School
Middletown RI
2002 "David Barnes Paintings and Drawings” Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI 2001 “Organic Life” Bodi Modern Art, Newport, RI
2000 “New Works on Paper” Salve Regina University, Ochre Pt. Newport RI
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2024 "Pivot" Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown RI
2021 “Spellbound" Atelier Newport, Newport RI
2017 "Virginia Lynch Revisited” Gallery 4. Tiverton Ri
2016 "Modern Archaeology” GREEN SPACE, T.F. Green Airport, Warwick RI. 2015 "Locker Room Culture" Central Conn. State Univ.,New Britain CT
2014 "NetWorks 2014" Newport Art Museum, Newport RI
“Locally Made” RISD Museum, Providence RI
“Legacies in Paint: The Mentoring Project” Newport Art Museum, Newport 2012 Recollections and Reconnections” Newport Art Museum, Newport RI