2004
‘In the presence of all creatures great and small’ Australian Galleries Works on Paper Sydney
‘From a Constructed Tasmanian World’, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
‘The Tower of Babel: Four Interpretations’, Gallery 101, Melbourne
‘Surface Tension, Twenty-one Contemporary Australian Print Makers’, National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, New York, NY and Gallery 101, Melbourne

2003
‘Future Perfect’, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
‘Love Letter to China’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW
‘World Calligraphy Biennale of Joellabuk-do’ South Korea

2002                
‘The body in question’ Gadfly Gallery, WA
‘Minare’, International Print Triennial, Montreal, Canada

2001                
Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
‘Poets and Painters’, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Fremantle Print Prize, WA
The Hutchins school 2001 Works on Paper Prize, Hobart

2000               
‘Prints, Drawings & Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
5th Triennial Mondiale D’Estampes Petit, Chamalieres, France (5th International Print Triennial of Small Format Prints)

1999                
Finalist in the Fremantle Print Prize Exhibition, (1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999)

1998                
Decalogue – A Catalogue of Ten Years of Australian Printmaking, curated by Ruth Johstone and Di Waite, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
‘Bolder Bags and Old Baggage’, collaboration between artists and the Health Department, Hobart & Schoolhouse Gallery Rosney, TAS
‘Borge’s Bestiary’, Grahame Galleries & Editions, Brisbane
Australian Galleries, Sydney

1997                
‘Collector’s Print Folio’, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
‘Upbeat’, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
‘Tripping the Light’, University of Tasmania

1996                
‘Pulp’, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
‘National Print Exhibition’, University of Western Sydney, NSW

1995                
‘1995 Chameleon: A Decade’, Long Gallery, Hobart
‘Art, Gender, Identity, Women artists from the Permanent Collection’, Davenport Gallery
‘Colonial Past-time to Contemporary Profession, 150 years of Australian Women’s Art from the ‘Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery Collection’, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
‘Poets & Painters’, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
‘Figure & Ground’, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

1994                 
‘Island’, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Gold Coast Art Award, QLD
‘Artists for Mount Wellington’, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Finalist in the Fremantle Print Prize Exhibition

1993                
‘Barbie Kjar, Tim Maguire and Tom Samek’, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT
‘Antarctica Fax Exhibition’, curated by Kevin Tod, TAS
Finalist in the Fremantle Print Prize Exhibition

1992                
Gallery Two, Launcestion, TAS
‘New Acquisitions’, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Entrepot Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart

1991                
Gallery Two, Hobart

1990                
‘9^th Biennale Print Exhibition’, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, VIC

1988                
‘Landfall, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, TAS

1987                
‘Hysterical Perspectives’, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart

1984                
‘Printmakers Exhibition’, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart

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Grants, Awards and Residences

2010-11 - Artist in Residence, The British School at Rome, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
2009 - Artist in Residence, National Art School Sydney
2007 - Guest speaker, The 6th Australian Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia
2004 - Artist in Residence, Tokyo, Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council
1999 - Winner, Conrad Jupiters Gold Coast Art Award, QLD
1998 - Project Grant, Arts Tasmania, Hobart
1997 - Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, ACT
1995 - Devonport Health Centre Commission, Art For Public Buildings Scheme, Tasmania; Gladstone Art Prize (Works on Paper, QLD and Project Grant, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, Hobart
1994 - The Billboard Project, Trades and Labour Council, Tasmania
1993 - 1st Prize, Eskleigh Art Award, Tasmania (Works on Paper)
1992 - Trust Bank Art Award, Launceston, Tasmania (Print Prize)
1991-92 - Project Grant, Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, Sydney and Artist in Residence, International Print Studio, Barcelona, Spain
1988-89 - Project Grant, Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council
1987-88 - Artist Development Grant, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, Hobart and Artist-in-Residence, Kala Print Workshop, Berkeley, California, USA

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Collections

Art in Public Buildings Scheme 1991, Arts Tasmania, Hobart
Artbank, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Devonport Art Gallery, Devonport
Fine Arts Committee, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Rosny College, Hobart
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
The Tamar Collection, Launceston
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
University of Tasmania Collection, Hobart
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand, USA, France and England

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Bibliography
 
Books
Catalogue of Australian Printmakers, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne 1989
Grishin, Sasha; Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s: Artist Printmakers 1990 - 1995, Craftsman House, 1998
Johnstone, Ruth & Waite, Di; Decalogue: a Catalogue of Ten Years of Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea, 1998
 
Periodicals
Sunday Arts, ABC TV and website, August-September 2008
Australian Literary Review, Magazine Cover illustration, May issue 1997
Auty, Giles; “Everyone’s a Winner”, The Weekend Australian, November 27-28 1999, p.23
Auty, Giles; “Review”, The Weekend Australian, 20 – 21 September 1997
Barkeliuk, Anne; “Artist takes seat to aid charity auction”, Saturday Mercury, Sept 11, 1999, p. 9
Cast Magazine, Vol 1, 1993
Cast Magazine, Vol 4, 1994
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Grishin, Sasha; The Canberra Times, Arts, 2001
Kidd, Courtney; The Sydney Morning Herald, “Look this way”, March 14 2000, p.13
Klaosen, Di; Imprint, Winter 1996
Landy, Lynne; Australian Country Style, November 2000, p.106-108
Makin, Geoffrey; Sun Herald, Arts, 2001
Nelson, Robert; The Age, 25 Feb 2005
“Postcards from a Dream” Imprint, Vol.26, No.2, 1990
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Preludes, No.7 (cover illustration), University of Tasmania, Hobart 1990
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Timms, Peter; “Faces and Memory: recent prints by Barbie Kjar”, Imprint, Volume 38, Number 3, Spring 2003
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