Lyndon Barrois Jr.

Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. New Orleans, LA) is an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is an assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University. He is half of LAB-D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged four exhibitions, and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019). He uses cinema as a means to travel both temporally and geographically, bringing to mind ideas of anachronism, simultaneity, and reanimation. Looking at branding strategies of old cinema—along with the phased-out profession of shooting film stills—he considers these methods ways to represent a film that has yet to be seen. He is currently undergoing a project that uses the heist film and museum context to contend with legacies of colonial extraction. In various ways, Barrois Jr. navigates questions around colour, control, taste, waste, and the layering of information.

Barrois Jr. received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2013), and his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2006). He has completed residencies at LATITUDE, Chicago, Illinois; Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee; the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (Netherlands); Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland (Canada), and the IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (Ireland). Most recently, he was the 2025 Starr Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools in London.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Hand of Glory, Royal Academy of Arts, London UK (2025); Rue Daguerre, Gallery Closed, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2024); Forum 86: Rosette, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2023); Mercantile (w/ Addoley Dzegede), Sharp Projects, Copenhagen, DK (2022); Mirage Collar, Artists Space, New York, NY (2022), amongst others. Selected recent group exhibitions include: Camera Obscura, Public Gallery, London (2025); Possibility for Repair, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA (2024); The Last Train After the Last Train, Public Gallery, London, UK (2023); Looking Back: White Columns Annual Exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY (2023); and The Regional, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (2022); among others. His work is in important private and public collections including the The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The Bunker Artspace; West Palm Beach, Florida; and the Danish Art Council, Copenhagen, Denmark.