Biography
Chase Barney graduated with a BFA from the University of Minnesota in 2019 and his MFA at The School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2022. Barney has exhibited across the United States and has received numerous grants and scholarships in support of his work, including a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant and the New Artist Full Merit Scholarship from SAIC. Barney is originally from Utah, and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Statement
I create ceramic vessels inspired both by craft traditions and historic ceramic objects that act as vessels for storytelling. My work resurfaces American parables and folklore, using saturated colors, allegorical creatures, tongue-in-cheek innuendo, and entwined themes of queerness and salvation. My preoccupation with the theological stems from my Mormon upbringing.