Gideon Barnett (b. 1982 Jasper, Tennessee) holds an MFA from Yale University and a BA from Columbia College Chicago. His work has been exhibited at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, Lightwork, Syracuse, The Pérez Art Museum, Miami, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, and The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach. His work is held in the collections of Lightwork, the Pérez Art Museum, and the Alfond Collection at the Rollins Museum of Art. He has received an individual artist fellowship from the South Florida Cultural Consortium and was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship at Yale. He lives and works in Transylvania County, North Carolina.