Over the past five decades, Barry Blinderman has variously been a New York gallery director, essayist, academic museum director, lecturer, and recording artist. He received a BFA in Art History from Boston University in 1975, and an MA in Art History from University of Pennsylvania in 1978. From 1980 to 1987, he directed Semaphore Gallery and Semaphore East in Soho and the East Village, respectively, where he championed the work of Martin Wong, Nancy Dwyer, Duncan Hannah, Walter Robinson, Ellen Berkenblit, Robert Colescott, Lady Pink, Tseng Kwong Chi, and other prominent artists emerging at that time. As director of University Galleries of Illinois State University from 1987 to 2018, he curated the first traveling U.S. museum exhibitions for David Wojnarowicz, Michelle Grabner, Walter Robinson, Duncan Hannah, Keith Haring, Jane Dickson, and many others. His interviews and essays on artists—from Andy Warhol and Robert Longo to Steve Reich and Jeanne Dunning—have been published in museum catalogs, anthologies, and art periodicals. His most recent monograph, Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences, 2015, accompanied the artist's retrospective (2014-2016). Recordings and videos of Blinderman's solo and collaborative music are on iTunes, YouTube, and Spotify. He lives in Los Angeles.