Lyndon Barrois Jr.

Lyndon Barrois Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. He is a multidisciplinary artist and collaborator, co-founding LAB-D with Addoley Dzegede. Their collaborative work includes four exhibitions and a co-authored essay collection (Elleboog, 2019). Barrois Jr. explores themes of anachronism, colonial legacies, and cultural critique through cinema, branding strategies, and museum contexts. His current project reimagines heist films to address colonial extraction, intersecting questions of color, control, taste, and waste.

Education: MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2013); BFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2006). Residencies include the Van Eyck Academie (Netherlands), Fogo Island Arts (Canada), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He currently holds the Starr Fellowship at the Royal Academy Schools in London.

Research interests span temporal/geographic displacement in cinema, postcolonial theory, and the intersection of art and institutional critique. Recent projects include a collaborative film screening at the Kemper Art Museum and a billboard installation in Tulsa.