Cole Barash (b. 1987) is a visual artist, working in the mediums of digital, analog, and archival photography, sculpture, and film. His portraiture and still lifes became known for their organic and spontaneous sense of intimacy. Barash's work focuses on the conversation of color and composition between two objects or moments and often results in the format of a book or an installation. Having spent a large portion of his upbringing in natural environments, nature as a form, presence, and phenomena of the physical world continues to contribute to his artworks and practice.
Barash's work has been exhibited internationally and his books are part of several public collections including the Franklin Furnace Archive and MoMA Manhattan Artists’ Books Collection. His photographs have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and Vogue, among others.
Teachings
Castle Hill of The Arts, Truro, MA, Form In Nature, 2022
Foto Filmic, British Columbia, Canada (Virtual) , Natural Silence, 2022
Awards & Residencies
Earthskin, Auckland, New Zealand, 2019 Artist-In-Residence
The Ou-telier Program, Vancouver Island. 2019 Artist-in-Residence
Wabi Sabi, Moab. 2018 Artist-in-Residence
The Anamorphosis Prize. 2017 Shortlist
SILOS Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. 2016 Artist-in-Residence
Adios Arts, Nicaragua. 2014 Artist-in-Residence
PDN's Top 30. 2009 Emerging Photographer
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 A Clear north Sky, Farm Projects Gallery. Wellfleet, MA.
2019 In Broad Daylight, Farm Projects Gallery. Wellfleet, MA.
2019 Stiya. Commune Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2017 Smokejumpers. Brooklyn Grange, Long Island City, NY.
2017 Grimséy. National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2015 Six Girls Six Cities. Picture Farm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 Talk Story. Venice Arts Gallery, Venice, CA.
2014 Talk Story. Picture Farm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2011 Cold Emotions. Montanero Gallery, Newport, RI. Curated by Michael Montanaro.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Schenscht. Curated by Melissa Joseph, Field Projects, New York, NY
2022 Tender Meeting. Curated by Jillian Solote, Prairie, Virtual Exhibition
2017 The Factory. The Old Herring Factory, Djúpavík, Iceland.
2017 The Artist’s Body. Studio Duo, Long Island City, New York.
2016 SEESALT.SF. Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 SALT. The Hole Gallery New York, NY
2015 Tangible Grounds. Out East Gallery, Montauk, NY
2015 Adiós. ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Tomorrow Has Passed. One Eyed Jacks Gallery, Brighton, UK
2015 Emerging Annenberg PDN. Annenberg Space, Los Angeles, CA
2015 New Visionaries. Gallery at the School of Design I Boston, MA
2015 Antimatter Art Fair. Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Hot Bed. TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Silence. AR4T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Get Gone. Swift Tackle Circus, Oceanside, Ca
Books
2020 "Sound of Dawn" 40 pages. 1 fold-out. 26 color plates. Published by Libraryman, edition of 500
2019 “Stiya” 84 pages. Deadbeat Club Press, edition of 707
2017 “Smokejumpers” 88 Color pages. Self Published, edition of 200
2016 "Get Gone" 53 Color pages. Includes zines Vol. 1-5, edition of 25
2016 "Kraag" 72 Color pages. Deadbeat Club Press, edition of 222
2015 “Grimséy” 57 Full Color Plates. The Silas Finch Foundation, edition of 600
2015 “Tangible Grounds” 60 Color pages. Self Published, edition of 100
2015 “Masters of Discipline” B/W newsprint. Stay Steady Magazine
2014 “The Dirty Dogs” Vol. 1&2. Matt Georges / Self Published, edition of 500
2014 “Talk Story” 80 Color pages. Design by Tucker Philips, edition of 555
Works in Collections
MoMA Manhattan Artists’ Books Collection. New York, NY.
Franklin Furnace Archive. Brooklyn, NY.
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University. New Haven, CT.
The Whitney Museum’s Frances Mulhall Achilles Library. New York, NY.
The Stephen Chan Library of Fine Arts - NYU. New York, NY.
John M. Flaxman Library at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
California Institute of the Arts Library. Valencia, CA.
School of Visual Arts Library. New York, NY.
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. New York, NY.
Edinburgh College of Art Library. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Selected Press & Publications
Wül Magazine. "The Conversation Beyond The Obvious" June 29th, 2022. by Nastasia Khmelnitski.
British Journal of Photography. "In Cole Barash's latest photobook, natural and human forms coalesce" April 2nd, 2021. By Hanna Abel-Hirsch.
Booooooom. “The Sound of Dawn” by Cole Barash. October 10th, 2019. By Anna Schneider.
Aint-Bad Magazine. “In Conversation: Stiya” May 30th, 2019. By Dana Stirling.
The Heavy Collective. “Q+A with Cole Barash - Stiya” May 30th, 2019.
The New Yorker. “Giving Birth in the Wake of a Storm” May 19th, 2019. By Coralie Kraft.
It’s Nice That. “In Stiya, Photographer Cole Barash Compares a Storm and the Birth of His First Child” May 24th, 2019. By Ruby Boddington.
Collector Daily. “Cole Barash, Stiya” April 4th 2019. By Olga Yatskevich.
Burn Magazine. “Grimséy” October 10th 2018.
Topic Magazine. “My Old Man and the Sea” June 2018. By Anna Fitzpatrick.
Vogue. “Up in the Air” February 7th 2018. By Bridget Read.
The Guardian. “Smokejumpers: life as an elite US Forest Service Firefighter” September 2017.
The Guardian. “Nucla, Colorado: Where Every Household is Required to Have a Gun” July 14th 2017.
VICE. “Beautiful Photographs from the Tiny Icelandic Island of Grimsey” December 1st 2015. By Ian Frisch.
Time Magazine. “Beyond The Waves: An Intimate Look at the Life of Surfer John John Florence” April 15th 2015. By Ye Ming.
Monster Children Magazine. “Interview with Cole Barash” July 10th 2014. By Eric Greene.
Cole Barash (b. 1987) is a visual artist, working in the mediums of digital, analog, and archival photography, sculpture, and film. His portraiture and still lifes became known for their organic and spontaneous sense of intimacy. Barash's work focuses on the conversation of color and composition between two objects or moments and often results in the format of a book or an installation. Having spent a large portion of his upbringing in natural environments, nature as a form, presence, and phenomena of the physical world continues to contribute to his artworks and practice.
Barash's work has been exhibited internationally and his books are part of several public collections including the Franklin Furnace Archive and MoMA Manhattan Artists’ Books Collection. His photographs have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and Vogue, among others.
Teachings
Castle Hill of The Arts, Truro, MA, Form In Nature, 2022
Foto Filmic, British Columbia, Canada (Virtual) , Natural Silence, 2022
Awards & Residencies
Earthskin, Auckland, New Zealand, 2019 Artist-In-Residence
The Ou-telier Program, Vancouver Island. 2019 Artist-in-Residence
Wabi Sabi, Moab. 2018 Artist-in-Residence
The Anamorphosis Prize. 2017 Shortlist
SILOS Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. 2016 Artist-in-Residence
Adios Arts, Nicaragua. 2014 Artist-in-Residence
PDN's Top 30. 2009 Emerging Photographer
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 A Clear north Sky, Farm Projects Gallery. Wellfleet, MA.
2019 In Broad Daylight, Farm Projects Gallery. Wellfleet, MA.
2019 Stiya. Commune Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2017 Smokejumpers. Brooklyn Grange, Long Island City, NY.
2017 Grimséy. National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2015 Six Girls Six Cities. Picture Farm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 Talk Story. Venice Arts Gallery, Venice, CA.
2014 Talk Story. Picture Farm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2011 Cold Emotions. Montanero Gallery, Newport, RI. Curated by Michael Montanaro.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Schenscht. Curated by Melissa Joseph, Field Projects, New York, NY
2022 Tender Meeting. Curated by Jillian Solote, Prairie, Virtual Exhibition
2017 The Factory. The Old Herring Factory, Djúpavík, Iceland.
2017 The Artist’s Body. Studio Duo, Long Island City, New York.
2016 SEESALT.SF. Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 SALT. The Hole Gallery New York, NY
2015 Tangible Grounds. Out East Gallery, Montauk, NY
2015 Adiós. ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Tomorrow Has Passed. One Eyed Jacks Gallery, Brighton, UK
2015 Emerging Annenberg PDN. Annenberg Space, Los Angeles, CA
2015 New Visionaries. Gallery at the School of Design I Boston, MA
2015 Antimatter Art Fair. Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Hot Bed. TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Silence. AR4T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Get Gone. Swift Tackle Circus, Oceanside, Ca
Books
2020 "Sound of Dawn" 40 pages. 1 fold-out. 26 color plates. Published by Libraryman, edition of 500
2019 “Stiya” 84 pages. Deadbeat Club Press, edition of 707
2017 “Smokejumpers” 88 Color pages. Self Published, edition of 200
2016 "Get Gone" 53 Color pages. Includes zines Vol. 1-5, edition of 25
2016 "Kraag" 72 Color pages. Deadbeat Club Press, edition of 222
2015 “Grimséy” 57 Full Color Plates. The Silas Finch Foundation, edition of 600
2015 “Tangible Grounds” 60 Color pages. Self Published, edition of 100
2015 “Masters of Discipline” B/W newsprint. Stay Steady Magazine
2014 “The Dirty Dogs” Vol. 1&2. Matt Georges / Self Published, edition of 500
2014 “Talk Story” 80 Color pages. Design by Tucker Philips, edition of 555
Works in Collections
MoMA Manhattan Artists’ Books Collection. New York, NY.
Franklin Furnace Archive. Brooklyn, NY.
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University. New Haven, CT.
The Whitney Museum’s Frances Mulhall Achilles Library. New York, NY.
The Stephen Chan Library of Fine Arts - NYU. New York, NY.
John M. Flaxman Library at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
California Institute of the Arts Library. Valencia, CA.
School of Visual Arts Library. New York, NY.
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. New York, NY.
Edinburgh College of Art Library. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Selected Press & Publications
Wül Magazine. "The Conversation Beyond The Obvious" June 29th, 2022. by Nastasia Khmelnitski.
British Journal of Photography. "In Cole Barash's latest photobook, natural and human forms coalesce" April 2nd, 2021. By Hanna Abel-Hirsch.
Booooooom. “The Sound of Dawn” by Cole Barash. October 10th, 2019. By Anna Schneider.
Aint-Bad Magazine. “In Conversation: Stiya” May 30th, 2019. By Dana Stirling.
The Heavy Collective. “Q+A with Cole Barash - Stiya” May 30th, 2019.
The New Yorker. “Giving Birth in the Wake of a Storm” May 19th, 2019. By Coralie Kraft.
It’s Nice That. “In Stiya, Photographer Cole Barash Compares a Storm and the Birth of His First Child” May 24th, 2019. By Ruby Boddington.
Collector Daily. “Cole Barash, Stiya” April 4th 2019. By Olga Yatskevich.
Burn Magazine. “Grimséy” October 10th 2018.
Topic Magazine. “My Old Man and the Sea” June 2018. By Anna Fitzpatrick.
Vogue. “Up in the Air” February 7th 2018. By Bridget Read.
The Guardian. “Smokejumpers: life as an elite US Forest Service Firefighter” September 2017.
The Guardian. “Nucla, Colorado: Where Every Household is Required to Have a Gun” July 14th 2017.
VICE. “Beautiful Photographs from the Tiny Icelandic Island of Grimsey” December 1st 2015. By Ian Frisch.
Time Magazine. “Beyond The Waves: An Intimate Look at the Life of Surfer John John Florence” April 15th 2015. By Ye Ming.
Monster Children Magazine. “Interview with Cole Barash” July 10th 2014. By Eric Greene.