
Douglas Barkey
Biography
American-born artist, 1960. Creative perspective reflects being raised in Argentina and a life spent moving between multiple cultures and languages; being
influenced by Latin American artists, musicians, and relationships; and translating these cross-cultural experiences into visual expression. Exhibits include one-
person shows at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and galleries in Maine, lowa, Michigan, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. A
selection of group exhibits includes the Muse de Arte Ateneo de Yucatan and FotoNoviembre in Yucatan, Mexico.
Received a bi-lingual high school education in Buenos Aires, Argentina before attending the Universidad de Puerto Rico and Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota
- graduated with a BA in Fine Arts. After working a year as a professional photographer in St. Paul began graduate work at the University of lowa - received an
MA in Sculpture and an MFA in Photography.
Subsequently lived, worked, and exhibited in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Maine, New York, New Mexico, and Virginia. Perspective as an artist bridges the fine
arts, design and education - hosted and worked with several internationally renown artists and designers, including Philip Pearlstein, James Wines, Adam Tihany,
Henry Wolf, Armando Milani, Ivan Chermayeff, Toshio Ohi, Hisashi Hara, Humberto Suaste, and Nicole Miller at several educational organizations.
Work in photography and digital media has been broad and comprehensive, including advertising and portraiture, as well as unmanipulated work in landscape and
documentary, and manipulated photographic imagery using appropriation and digital montage. Was an early adopter and pioneer in using computers to enhance,
animate, and montage photographs. Interest in applying new technology in artistic practice led to the first major exhibit of digital-based art in the Dominican
Republic.
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