Originally trained as an orchestral tubist, I make drawings, sculptures, photographs, and installations that assert my place in the great outdoors.
I estimate that I have spent nearly a year of my life camping in the Everglades. In that landscape, my sense of Americanness took shape—formed through the rituals of scouting, muddled by a sanitized vision of Indigenous sovereignty, and complicated by my own emergence as a gay man.
8¾ × 12in
9½ × 11¾in
8¾ × 12in
(WILDFIRE) oil pastel on paper
8¾ × 12in
O, SWIFT JUSTICE! oil pastel on paper
8¾ × 12in
(FLOOD) oil pastel on paper
8¾ × 12in
9½ × 11¾in
8¾ × 12in
9½ × 11¾in
9½ × 11¾in
9½ × 11¾in
9½ × 11¾in
(LOW HANGING) oil pastel on paper
8¾ × 12in
8¾ × 12in
duck canvas & sound system
9 × 9 × 9 ft
11¾ × 16½ in
12 × 16 in
8 × 10 ft
12 × 12 × 12ft
60 mins
15 × 12 × 8 in
8¾ × 11 in
2 × 2 × 2 ft
17 × 13 ft
60 mins
with washers and kenari seeds
60 mins
Yorkshire, England 2025Photo by Behnaz Fatemi
Geovanni Barrios (b. 1999, Miami, FL, based in New Haven, CT) is a classical musician and visual artist whose practice emcompasses sculpture, painting, performance, and installation. Barrios holds a BA in Art History from Yale University and has worked in arts conservation labs at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His experiences in the archives, with historical objects, and learning traditional techniques inform his artistic practice. Barrios has been awarded residency-fellowships at the Clyfford Still Museum Institute in Denver, Colorado, the Royal Over Seas League in London, and the Art House Wakefield in Yorkshire, England. He has also performed internationally in Mexico, Brazil, and Germany.
He is currently the Artist Programs Intern at the Textile Arts Center, and will be among the inaugural cohort of artist-in-residence at the Flora in the River North District of Denver in the Fall of 2026.