Ruth Barker *1979 Leeds, UK 1998-01 Glasgow School of Art - BA Honours (1st Class with              Distinction) in Fine Art, specialising in Environmental Art 2002-04 Glasgow School of Art - MFA (Master of Fine Art) 2001-06 Co-founder and Co-director of Trajectory Publications              and Something Haptic lebt und arbeitet in Glasgow.

Ausstellungen
2007
Ruth Barker & Fiona Shaw, Galerie Adler Frankfurt am Main, D
Nominated for Jerwood Platform

2006
Ideas Move Away From Abstraction (solo exhibition), Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
The Self As Knower Does Not Know The Self As Known (solo exhibition), Project Room gallery, Glasgow
And One More Fall, Faktura II / Something Haptic , Glasgow International
Stories Only Happen to People Who Can Tell Them / Something Haptic, Conical Gallery, Melboune, Au
Placed Upon the Horizon / with Niall Macdonald, East Kilbride Arts Centre

2005
And One More Fall, Faktura / Something Haptic , Generator, Dundee
The Trap and the Rope, The Jail, Glasgow
Soko Kara Koko e (From There to Here), Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto
Dark Night in the Greenwood, GSS Gallery, Glasgow
BLOC, County Hall Gallery, London

2004
Show me to the Tradesman’s Entrance, Tramway, Glasgow (MFA degree show)
Means to an End / Something Haptic, Glasgow Independent Gallery, Glasgow
Siege and Counter Siege / Something Haptic, Mariakapel, Hoorn, Netherlands
How Such Buildings … / Something Haptic, Cabin Exchange, Edinbsurgh
Best in Show, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

2003
Telago, Bezalel Academy, Israel
This is Private, EmergeD, VSF Glasgow
Scale Model…, Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow
In the Wake…/ Something Haptic, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway


Recent Public Artworks and Commissions

2006
THE FUTURE, Project Artist and researcher for lead artist Peter McCaughey, Winchburgh
Signing the Ways, Project Artist and researcher for lead artist Peter McCaughey
Ideas Move Away From Abstraction, Garden between Scottish Storytelling Centre and John Knox’s house, Edinburgh, temporary
Placed Upon The Horizon , South Lanarkshire Council, collaboration with Niall Macdonald
If Strength of Body Be, New Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, short-listed for permanent work.

2005
Romeo and Juliet, Plaza Building, Glasgow, temporary work.
This Place Then, Or Some Other?, Glasgow Underground, temporary work commissioned for Glasgow international ’05.

2004
Bromeliad, Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, permanent memorial for the Queen Mother.