Geovanni ‘Geo’ Barrios, born and raised in Miami, is a musician and visual artist who investigates the evolution of American masculinity. While living in the Northeast, Geo transitioned from orchestral tuba to performance art and eventually landed on a visual arts practice across disciplines and mediums.
After graduating from the New World School of the Arts in 2017, Geo lived in Germany as a Congress-Bundestag Scholar, and subsequently received his BA in Art History from Yale University in 2024. He has worked extensively in arts conservation with the Yale University Art Gallery and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
As a musician, Geo has performed on stages across the US, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Kenya. Geo has also performed at the Art House Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England (2025), the Ely Center for Contemporary Art (2018), the Yale Center for British Art (2019), the Yale University Art Gallery (2019, 2024), and the TSAI Center (2020). His most recent solo show through the Graduate Studio Residency in New Haven, “Morally Straight” (2022), scrutinizes the effects of the Boy Scouts' homophobic policies in the early 90s on his life as a young gay man.