She has exhibited internationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale, Venice Biennale(s) of Art/Architecture, Sharjah Biennial, Sao Paolo Biennale, Nagoya Biennale, Carnegie International, Whitney Biennale, Sydney Biennale, and Documenta, among others. Her awards include the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts 2000 and "Best Pavilion" at the Cairo Biennale, 2001. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.
Public Fantasy, a collection of Barryʼs essays, was published by the ICA in London (1991).
Other publications include Projections: mise en abyme (1997), the catalogue for The Study for the Mirror and Garden in Granada, Spain (2003) and Body without Limits, Salamanca, Spain (2009).
Her work is included in the collection of MoMA, NYC, Whitney Museum NYC, Generali Foundation, Vienna, MCA, San Diego, Pompidou Center, Paris, Le Caixa, Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona, FNAC, Paris, Goetz collection, Munich, Frac Lorraine, Metz, and CIFO, Miami, Kadist Foundation, Paris and San Francisco, Kanal, Brussels, among others. A survey of her work traveled in Europe and was on view at Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Link
Recent exhibitions include:
"Technologies of the Real”, Meixihu International Culture, Art Center and Art Museum (MICA Art Museum), Changsha City, Hunan Province, China, 2025 and Techne Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art / Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China, 2023;
“All the light that’s ours to see”, TRIBUTE to Judith Barry, Athens Media Festival, Athens Greece, 2024; “Women”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC, 2024; “The Work of the Forest”, STYLE CONGO, CIVA, Brussels, 2023; “All the light that’s ours to see”, MUMOK, Vienna, 2023; "Exhibition As Image", 80WSE Gallery, NYC, 2021; “All the light that’s ours to see”, Lumiar Cite, Lisbon, 2020; "B3 Biennial of the Moving Image” at several sites in Frankfurt, 2020; “about documenta”, permanent exhibition, Kassel Museum, Kassel, 2019; “…cairo stories”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, 2018; “Displacement”, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2018; “Imagination, dead imagine”, The Age of the Internet, ICA, Boston, 2018 (toured); “Imagination, dead imagine”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, 2017.
Other recent exhibitions include:
"West By Midwest”, MCA, Chicago, “Unholding”, Artists Space, NYC, “The Voice”, Coreana Museum, Seoul, “Exhibition as Image”, Ludlow 38, NYC, “Down And To The Left”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, “Electronic Superhighway” MAAT, Lisbon and Whitechapel, London, "Dis-Play/Re-Play”, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, and "Putting Rehearsals to the Test", and VOX Contemporary Image, Montreal, among others.
She has taught and lectured extensively in the USA, Asia and Europe. Full-time teaching positions include ACT at MIT, Cambridge (2002-2003), the Merz. Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany (2003–2005). Currently she is Professor in the ACT program at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts. Link
