Barbara Zucker

{{short description|American artist (born 1940)}}

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| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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| nationality = American

| field = Sculpture

| training = Hunter College

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| awards = Giverny Fellowship, Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture, The UCross Foundation, Yaddo, National Academy Museum Proctor Award.

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Barbara M. Zucker (born 1940) is an American artist known for her sculpture. {{As of|2018}} she was Professor Emerita, University of Vermont,{{cite web |title=Publications and Creative Works 2018 |url=https://www.uvm.edu/sites/default/files/Division-of-Enrollment-Management/2018Publications_Web.pdf |publisher=University of Vermont |accessdate=April 30, 2020 |page=2}} and based in Burlington, Vermont.

Born in Philadelphia, Zucker received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Michigan before receiving a Master of Arts from Hunter College.{{cite web |title=Barbara Zucker |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/barbara-zucker |website=Brooklyn Museum |access-date=26 January 2022}} She has taught at La Guardia Community College; Fordham University; Philadelphia College of Art; the University of Vermont as a professor on the studio art faculty from 1979, being chair of the Department of Art from 1979 to 1985; and Yale University. She has served as an artist-in-residence at Florida State University and Princeton University. Zucker began a series of works based on the shape of chairs in the 1960s; the following decade saw her move into installation art. She has since come to explore fan shapes, and more recently began to create works with motors. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 1975, and was awarded a fellowship from Reader's Digest in 1990 to work in Giverny. She has had numerous solo shows, and co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery, the first women's co-operative gallery in the U.S., in New York City in 1972. From 1974 to 1981 she was an editorial assistant at Art News, and she has written for that publication, The Village Voice, Art Journal, and Women's Studies. Her work may be found in numerous private and corporate collections,{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}}{{cite journal|last1=Schlegel|first1=Amy Ingrid|title=Barbara Zucker's Beauty Myths|journal=Sculpture|date=December 1997|volume=16|issue=10|url=http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag97/zucker/sm-zuckr.shtml}} as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art.{{cite web |title=Barbara Marion Zucker {{!}} Untitled |url=https://whitney.org/collection/works/3410 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=en}}

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.{{cite web |title=Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/some-living-american-women-artistslast-supper-76377 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=25 January 2022}}