Bio

Draftsman and filmmaker, Dorion Barill produces site-specific work by mining dream imagery and local history.  Orbiting conditions of fear and irrationality, his artwork presents utopian visions on the threshold of consciousness.  A compulsive sketcher, he focused his mark as a technical illustrator at Phil Fraley Productions Inc, contributing to the development of exhibits at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  He’s been awarded residencies in Rome and Cappadocia, with an exhibition record that includes the Palace of Saint Michael and Saint George in Corfu, Greece, the Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition in Pittsburgh, and the Castello Colonna in Genazzano, Italy.  He was a recipient of The Pittsburgh Foundation’s 2013 Investing In Professional Artists Grant.  In 2010, he graduated with a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Past Exhibitions

Solo

2009 The Bush of Ghosts, Dv8 Gallery, Greensburg PA

Two Person

2018 Brutal Absurd, Palace of Saint Michael & Saint George, Corfu, Greece

2013 Rustbelt Romanticism, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg PA

Group

2020 Transverse: The Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh PA

2018 Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2014 Thurb’s Grand Guignol, Tomato House, Brooklyn NY

2013 Two Minute Film Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA

2011 Fabrikartgrup International Festival of Contemporary Art, Nevsehir, Turkey

2011 The Dino Show, Outpost Artist Resources, New York NY

2010 No More Hot Dogs, Dv8 Gallery, Greensburg PA

2009 Site Specific, Centro Internazionale per L’Arte Contemporanea, Genazzano, Italy

2007 Transformations, Dv8 Gallery, Greensburg PA 

RISD

2010 Painting vs. Illustration, Carr Haus Gallery, Providence RI

2010 Sports Illustrated Senior Illustration Show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence RI

2010 “-------  Show”, ISB Gallery, Providence RI

2009 RISD European Honors Program Show, Piazza Cenci, Rome, Italy