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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 Paintings and Drawings, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
2001 Paintings, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
1998 Flutter, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
1997 Secret Language, PS 122, New York, NY
1997 Murmur, Feldenkrais Centre, Toronto, Canada
1996 Books, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1995 Whispers, A Space, Toronto, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Conversing Codices, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, Bowdoin College, ME
2023 CCA MFA Pop-Up, Oakland, CA
2023 Between Friends, PLAySPACE, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2019 Open Sesame, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
2016 Love, Lust and Desire, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
2015 Love, Lust and Desire, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
2011 Graphix: Sequence, Image, Story, Florida Atlantic University’s Wimberly Library,
Boca Raton, FL
2007 Swim!, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
2006 Child’s Play, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2003 The Curatorial Eye: 15 Perspectives, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Sonoma, CA
2002 25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2002 Playground, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
2000 Black and White, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
2000 Artists Books, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Selections Summer ’98, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (Juror: Nayland Blake)
1994 Still (two-person exhibition with Doug Aitken), Éspace Montjoie, Paris (Guest Curator: Heidi Zuckerman)
1993 Drawing First (Juror: Ann Philbin), Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2000 Painting Space 122 Project Studio award
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship
1997 Puffin Foundation Project grant
1995 Women’s Studio Workshop production grant
1994 Millay Colony Artist Fellowship
1992 Sheldon Bergh Award (USA)
1992 Novas Juror’s Award (Juror: Josie Callan, San Jose Museum of Art)
PROJECTS
2013 The Year of the Snake, video collaboration with Ben Goldberg
2005 Secret Language, performance with Butch Morris ensemble, ISSUE Project Room, NY
2005 Lake, performance with Gina Leishman, ISSUE Project Room, NY
BOOKS
1997 Secret Language, City Lights Publishers
1994 Quite Mad and Other Works, The Crossing Press
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
EDUCATION
1992 University of California at Santa Cruz, Graduate Certificate in Painting
1990 University of California at Santa Cruz, BA with Honors in Visual Art
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Andrew Gilbert, “Molly Barker and Ben Goldberg, practitioners,” Berkeleyside, April 13, 2018.
1998 Melina Neet, “Last quiet ocean,” book review of Secret Language, Pitch Weekly,
February 26-March 4, 1998. 22
1998 Amy McConnell, “Emotional Challenge: there’s no comfort zone around Molly Barker’s paintings,” Concord Monitor, Concord, NH, July 30, 1998. D1
1994 M.L., “Du Calme: Deux artistes américains présentent, au delà de leurs techniques pour le moins différentes, des oeuvres participant de la même recherche,” Le Journal de Saint Denis, Paris, France, No 156, 19-25 octobre 1994.
1994 “L’Expo immobile,” Le Journal de Saint Denis, Paris, France, No 154, 8-11 octobre 1994.