FRANCES BARTH

Noted American artist and teacher, Frances Barth, was born in the Bronx, in New York City in 1946. Barth studied painting at Hunter College and has been working and showing her painting in New York and internationally since the 1960s. While an art student, she also studied modern dance, and began performing with Yvonne Rainer at Lincoln Center and the Billy Rose Theater in 1968-69, and with Joan Jonas in dance and video in 1970. Barth's work is included in several museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. Barth is the Director Emeritus of the Mt. Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).