Gordon Barnes is a mischievous and curious artist and educator working in Portland, Oregon who enjoys thinking deeply about the wrong things.

He earned a BFA in Printmaking from Sonoma State University in 2005 and a MFA in Studio Practice from Portland State University in 2007.

His printmaking research is broadly focused on expanding/exploring the intersection of digital and traditional approaches while playfully and humanely challenging what he sees as false binary choices baked into the way many of us frame our thinking around gender, sexuality, taste, class and craft.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for the last 20 years and he has been an active member of Paintallica since 2008.