Information
mitchellcliftonbarton@gmail.com
Mitchell Barton is an artist working in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Recent(ish) projects include:
- “Razorbacks” — an exhibition at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.
- “Three Basketball Games” — a book with photographs and text regarding three basketball games he watched from his living room. The photographs were made through a process of cutting, photoshopping, gluing, drawing, printing, and scanning.
- “Artspeak Ipsum” — a lorem ipsum generator based on International Art English.
He also runs a little gallery space in his basement furnace room called Washer / Dryer Projects that is hardly ever open to the public but always open on the internet.
Apart from making art, he makes custom websites for people at Cold Rice LLC.
His work has been shown online and in real life at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Arcade on Stadium, Tropical Contemporary, UMOCA, CUAC, Der Grief, A New Nothing, Self Publish Be Happy, The Daily Lazy, In The In-Between, and others.
More links below:
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Education
2017, BFA, Brigham Young University
Selected Exhibitions
2023, “Razorbacks”, Solo Exhibition, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2023, “Surrealism”, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2022, “Glam”, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2020, “A Concert”, Solo Exhibition, Arcade on Stadium, Provo, UT, USA
2019, “Press Refresh”, The Wrong Biennale, Online
2019, “The Flat File: Year Seven”, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019, “Dancing in Peckham”, Peckham24, London, UK
2019, “Freestylez”, Solo Exhibition, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR, USA
2018, “Generation Loss”, Pal Gallery, Provo, UT, USA
2018, “Self Reflection”, NIDA International Photography Symposium, Nida, Lithuania
2017, “Statewide”, Bountiful Davis Arts Center, Bountiful, UT, USA, Curated by Peter Everett
2017, “Utah Ties”, CUAC, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Curated by Mary Leigh Cherry
Awards
2021, Utah Arts Fellowship
Publications
2022, “Three Basketball Games”, Self-published
2019, “Freestylez”, Self-published