Adriana Barrios

Adriana Barrios

Adriana Barrios is an artist and curator originally from San Diego, California. Barrios received her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is currently a third year Master of Fine Arts Candidate in Printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she is a recipient of the Graduate Research Fellow Scholarship. Barrios has exhibited her artwork internationally in Italy and Mexico and nationally in New York, New Mexico, and Texas. Her artwork is in the collections of UW-Madison and UW-Madison Department of Special Collections. Barrios uses printmaking, papermaking, video, and installation as a way to record and respond to the environmental changes currently happening along the California Coastline due to human activity and climate change. Her research practice involves a yearlong dialog and collaboration between herself and Robert Guza, Professor Emeritus at The Scripps Institute of Oceanography UC San Diego.