Tina Barney was born in New York City in 1945. She currently lives and works in New York City and Westerly, Rhode Island. The artist’s photography career began in the mid 1970s while living in Sun Valley, Idaho. Barney began photographing in color with a large format view camera just before returning to New York in 1983.
Read MoreHer iconic tableaux portraying the daily life of the social elite are in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among many others. Barney's works were included in the 1987 Whitney Biennial, and recent solo exhibitions include The Portrait. Photography as a Stage at the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria and The Europeans at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, which traveled to the Museum of Art, Salzburg, Austria.
