Adriana Barrios

Adriana Barrios is a queer, biracial, Latina, artist who grew up on the coastal borderlands of San Diego, California. Barrios received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is a Master of Fine Arts graduate from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Barrios has worked with The Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Santa Reparata International School of Art, and The Chazen Museum of Art. Barrios has exhibited her artwork internationally in Italy and Mexico and nationally in New York, New Mexico, and Texas. Barrios is a recipient of awards including the 2020 Forward Art Prize and the Arts + Literature Laboratory ALL Prize.

Barrios's artwork presents a visual response to climate change alongside scientific fieldwork that gives meaning to the social consequences of her lived experience. Barrios uses printmaking, papermaking, video, and installation to record and respond to the environmental changes happening along the California Coastline due to climate change.