Artist Bio:
Gabrielle Barnett (b.1997, Louisiana) is a Southern lens-based artist, writer, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Georgia, currently based in Athens. She works across photography, video, printmaking, and sculpture to explore fatness, motherhood, desirability, and the cultural narratives that shape how bodies are seen and valued. Using playful and tactile materials — bubble gum, slime, stacks of paper, carved lines — her practice celebrates presence while questioning who is asked to shrink or disappear. Her ongoing series Desire Body insists on fat visibility as intimate, powerful, and whole, while her current research extends into the figure of the fat athlete, challenging assumptions about strength, performance, and capability. Barnett has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her visual and written work draws from feminist and conceptual art traditions to transform everyday vulnerability into images, texts, and installations that feel both defiant and tender.
Gabrielle Barnett (b.1997, Louisiana) is a Southern lens-based artist, writer, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Georgia, currently based in Athens. She works across photography, video, printmaking, and sculpture to explore fatness, motherhood, desirability, and the cultural narratives that shape how bodies are seen and valued. Using playful and tactile materials — bubble gum, slime, stacks of paper, carved lines — her practice celebrates presence while questioning who is asked to shrink or disappear. Her ongoing series Desire Body insists on fat visibility as intimate, powerful, and whole, while her current research extends into the figure of the fat athlete, challenging assumptions about strength, performance, and capability. Barnett has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her visual and written work draws from feminist and conceptual art traditions to transform everyday vulnerability into images, texts, and installations that feel both defiant and tender.
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