Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. New Orleans, LA) is an artist and artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, where he is an assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University. He is half of LAB-D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged four exhibitions, and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019).
He uses cinema as a means to travel both temporally and geographically, bringing to mind ideas of anachronism, simultaneity, and reanimation. Looking at branding strategies of old cinema—along with the phased-out profession of shooting film stills—he considers these methods ways to represent a film that has yet to be seen. He is currently undergoing a project that uses the heist film and museum context to contend with legacies of colonial extraction. In various ways, Barrois Jr. navigates questions around color, control, taste, waste, and the layering of information.
Barrois Jr. received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2013), and his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2006). He has completed residencies at LATITUDE Chicago, Loghaven, the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Netherlands), Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland. He is currently the Starr Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools London.
Current RA Schools student
RA Schools student from 2024 to 2025
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2013 Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art. MFA, Visual Art / St. Louis, MO
2006 Maryland Institute College of Art. BFA, Painting / Baltimore, MD
2005 Studio Art Centers International / Florence, Italy
2003 Santa Monica College / Santa Monica, CA
2020 – ongoing Assistant Professor / DP3 Area (Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography), MFA Core Faculty, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY / Pittsburgh, PA
2024 RUE DAGUERRE for Exhibition Copy series, Gallery Closed / Pittsburgh, PA
2023 Forum 86: ROSETTE, Carnegie Museum of Art / Pittsburgh, PA
2022 MERCANTILE (w/ Addoley Dzegede), Sharp Projects / Copenhagen, DK
2022 MIRAGE COLLAR, Artists Space / New York, NY
2021 DREAMSICKLE (w/ Kahlil Robert Irving), 47 Canal / New York, NY
2020 OTHERS WHO STRUGGLE WITH NATURE, Rubber Factory / New York, NY
2018 GOOD FORM, Chalmers Gallery @ University of Kansas / Lawrence, KS
2018 WAYFARER (As LAB:D w/ Addoley Dzegede), Monaco USA / Saint Louis, MO
2017 ONE STEP AHEAD (w/ Kahlil Robert Irving), South Dallas Cultural Center / Dallas, TX
2017 OF COLOR. Great Rivers Biennial 2016, Contemporary Art Museum / Saint Louis, MO
2015 THE TRUTH IS RUDE (As LAB:D w/ Addoley Dzegede). The Millitzer / Saint Louis, MO
2024 SAMPLE, Chili Art Projects / London, UK
2024 REANIMATOR, Stove Works (curated by Anthony Discenza and Elizaveta Shneyderman) / Chattanooga, TN
2023 THE LAST TRAIN AFTER THE LAST TRAIN, Public Gallery / London, UK
2023 REFLEX BLUE, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios / Dublin, Ireland
2023 Looking Back: White Columns Annual Exhibition / White Columns, New York, NY
2022 PRESS RELEASE, Storage Gallery / New York, NY
2024 Artist-in-Residence, Cité Des Arts / Paris, France
2022 Artist-in-Residence, LATITUDE / Chicago, IL
2021 Artist-in-Residence (as LAB:D w/ Addoley Dzegede), Loghaven / Knoxville, TN
2020 Artist-in-Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art / Dublin, Ireland (continued)
2020 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award, Washington University in St. Louis / St. Louis, MO
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Fogo Island Arts / Newfoundland, Canada
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art / Dublin, Ireland
2018 Artist-in-Residence, Jan Van Eyck Academie / Maastricht, Netherlands
2017 Chenven Foundation Grant, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation / New York, NY
2017 Hashinger Hall Artist-in-Residence, University of Kansas / Lawrence, KS
2017 Artist-in-residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art / Omaha, NE
2014 Artist-in-residence (w/artist Luis Gispert), Atlantic Center for the Arts / New Smyrna Beach, FL