Dimitria Barrows — ceramics

Dimitria Barrows

Contemporary ceramic artist Dimitria Barrows (ART AS A CONSEQUENCE — AAAC) spent a decade working full-time in the art industry — at Gagosian, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, among others — handling exhibitions, sales, and artists’ studios — a blast from the past — before returning to her own practice in 2024. Now Barrows makes ceramics, including functional sculptural vessels.

Based in Zug, Switzerland — better known as Crypto Valley — Barrows creates handmade stoneware ceramics — vases and vessels exploring value formation in internet memes, crypto culture, economics, onchain dynamics.

Barrows bridges the contemporary art scene with the web3 space. Each artwork is unique, boldly glazed, and created with utility in mind — it mirrors how we assign (and verify) worth, a question she watched play out in blue-chip galleries and now watches play out onchain. Barrows’ artworks are NFC-chipped and onchain-registered; these conceptual ceramics exist as physical-digital twins.

Barrows graduated from ZHdK in Zurich (BA Fine Arts, 2015).

Education

2012 – 2015

BA Media and Art: Fine Arts

Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich

2008 – 2010

attRAct, workshops in architecture and art

Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Exhibitions

2015

Aufgeweckte Kunstgeschichten, group exhibition

Kunsthaus Zurich, Vortragssaal, Zurich

2014

Sweet Nothings — ONO Gallery, Zurich

SOKK, group exhibition — Arbenz, Zurich

Aufgeweckte Kunstgeschichten — Toni Areal, Zurich

Welcome deadline — Import Export, ZHdK, Zurich

Washington Ghost — A.C. KUPPER Modern, Zurich

2013

If Nobody Was Watching — ZHdK, Zurich

2010

Michael Landy Art Bin, group exhibition

South London Gallery, London

get in touch: dimitria@artasaconsequence.net