Biography

Bachelor of Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Photographer/writer Circulating Pines, Circle Pines, Minnesota 1986-1992

Owner, Barry Kleider Photography Studio, Minneapolis 1993 - present

Roster Artist Minnesota State Arts Board 2000 – present

Roster Artist, Young Audiences of Minnesota 2003

Selected Awards and Panels:

2003 St. Paul Fall Art Crawl poster competition judge

2002 Jerome Emerging Artist fellowship, New York Mills Arts Retreat Center/Jerome Foundation

2001 Fellow: Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Partnership 2000 Initiative *


(*This fellowship, awarded in August, 2001, was declined after the September 11 attacks.)

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Waukazo: Light reflecting on water, landscape images, University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chanhassen, Minnesota, Nov. 2003-Jan. 2004.

Using Photography As a Teaching Tool, an exhibit of my work with students, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Minneapolis, MN. Feb. - March, 2002.

Reflections, portraits, Theater in the Round, Minneapolis, MN, May - June, 2000.

WaterMeetsLandMeetsSky, landscape images, University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chanhassen, Minnesota, April - May, 2000.

Selected Joint Exhibitions:

St. Paul Art Crawl, St. Paul, MN, October, 2003, April 2003, October 2002.

Visual Artists exhibit, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN, July – Sept. 2002.

Favorite Places Project, (With Usry Alleyne and Steven Farley), Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN, May – July, 2002. Southwest Senior Center July – Dec. 2002. Available online at www.favoriteplacesproject.org

California Century: Puerto Ricans in the San Francisco Bay Area 1900-2000 (with text by Aurora Levins Morales, Ph.D.),

• Hayward Area Historical Society, Hayward, CA, May – July, 2002
• La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA, December, 2000
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, October, 2000.

Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos, Latinos in West Oakland, a series of portraits commissioned by the Education department of The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, October - November, 1999.