Aideen Barry

Aideen Barry is a contemporary visual artist from Cork, Ireland.

Early life and education Barry was born in Cork in 1979. She studied at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology and Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.

Work Barry works in video, animation, sound, installation, drawing, and performance and often deals with issues of domestic labour.

Career Barry had an artist residency at the Kennedy Space Center in 2008, "during which she shot a film in zero gravity". Barry's series of polished aluminium sculptures, Weapons of Mass Consumption, was selected by critic Cristín Leach for the broadcaster RTÉ's series of website articles titled 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks.

Barry released a black and white, stop motion film about the history of Kaunas, Lithuania and its architecture, titled Klostes. It debuted as part of the Kaunas 2022 The European Capital of Culture. She designed a postage stamp for An Post in 2022.

Barry teaches at Limerick Institute of Technology. and in 2020 she was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy as an ARHA. Her work is in the Crawford Art Gallery and the Arts Council of Ireland collections.