ABOUT
Joshua Barndt is a Toronto based painter, installation artist, and curator. Born in Toronto, he completed his BFA in 2008 in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Barndt’s personal work plunges us into a dark dystopian landscape of dramatic images and clandestine waste. His highly multidisciplinary exhibitions weave together hyperrealist figurative paintings, raw painted animations, large-scale sculpture and performance into immersive installations. Barndt has exhibited extensively in Montreal and Toronto, and In October of 2008 presented his graduating solo exhibition “DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT” at WhipperSnapper Gallery as a part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. He has also been very active as Curator and Arts organizer, most recently working as the co-producer for Canada’s largest student art festival Art Matters.
Barndt has exhibited extensively in Montreal and Toronto, most recently staging his second solo exhibition in October of 2008 “DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT” at Whippersnapper gallery for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Finally as part of Art Souterrain of Montréal’s Nuit Blanche on February 28th 2009 Barndt unveiled two new large short term public installations in two of Montréal’s most prestigious buildings; Place Ville Marie and The World Trade Center of Montreal.