Germane Barnes is a Chicago-born, Miami-based licensed architect, designer, and founding principal of Studio Barnes a research and design practice that investigates the connection between architecture and identity, examining architecture’s social and political agency through
historical research and design speculation.
His work has been exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. His project, Griot was widely published, as a participant in Biennale Architettura 2023, Laboratory of the Future. He is a past winner of the Architectural League, United States Artists, Harvard
Wheelwright, J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller, and American Academy in Rome Prizes. He was selected in the inaugural cohort of The Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab created by Theaster Gates and sponsored by Prada. His work has also been featured and acquired to the permanent collections of international institutions most notably San Francisco MoMA, LACMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, The New York Times, and The National Museum of African American History and Culture.
SPEAKERBOXXX
Inspired by the craft of Gullah Straw Baskets, SPEAKERBOXXX is a series of whimsical and ornamental sound stations made specifically for the Artist In Residence in the Everglades Ebb & Flow Exhibition for the Cooper Hewitt Making Home Triennial.
Joy Riding Speaker
Joy Riding is a sculptural furniture piece, inspired by the joyous nature of Black car culture in conversation with the iconic aesthetics of the mid-century modern architecture.
