
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