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Barbara Astman
Barbara Anne Astman (born July 12, 1950, in Rochester, New York) is a Canadian multimedia artist and photographer who has pioneered innovative approaches to photo-based media. After receiving her associate degree from Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen in 1970, she moved to Toronto, where she graduated from the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) in 1973. That same year, she held her first public solo exhibition at Toronto's Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography.
Throughout her career spanning more than four decades, Astman has consistently explored new technologies and media, including instant camera technology, color xerography, and digital scanning. Her breakthrough Red series (1980) featured the artist posed frontally among carefully arranged objects spray-painted red, creating compositions both playful and subtly threatening. Later series explored diverse themes: the Places series (1982) used mixed-media constructions based on personal memories; Settings for Situations (1984) showed her interest in constructivism and theatrical design; and more recent work like Dancing with Che (2003/2011) and The Newspaper Series (2007) examined cultural icons and media consumption.
Astman has completed several significant public art commissions, including a floor installation for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, the Weather Windows for the Canadian Embassy in Berlin (2005), a 217-window photo-based installation for the Murano on Bay in Toronto (2010), and The Fossil Book photographic installation for the Koffler Gallery (2013). Her work is represented in major public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
In addition to her artistic practice, Astman joined the faculty of OCAD in 1975, where she served as chair of photography (2001-2002) and professor in the faculty of art (2002-2021) before retiring as professor emerita. She has been active in the Toronto arts community, serving on the Art Gallery of Ontario's Board of Trustees (2009-2013) and co-curating The Emergence of Feminism: Changing the Course of Art (AGO, 2008). Her contributions to Canadian art have been recognized through her election to the Royal Canadian Academy in 2000 and receipt of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2024.
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