Background
Barnaby Evans was born on March 15, 1953 in Berkeley, California, United States.
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Barnaby Evans was born on March 15, 1953 in Berkeley, California, United States.
Barnaby Evans received his bachelor's degree in biology and environmental science from Brown University in 1975, where he was a member of the Brown Association for Cooperative Housing.
In 1994, Barnaby Evans created First Fire to celebrate the tenth anniversary of First Night Providence. In June 1996, he created Second Fire for the International Sculpture Conference and the Convergence International Arts Festival in Providence. With hundreds of volunteers and the broad support of the community he established WaterFire as an ongoing installation in 1997.
Barnaby Evans also created WaterFire Houston in 1998 and installed Moving Water for the Institute of Contemporary Art's Vita Brevis Program in Boston in 2001.
Barnaby Evans has lectured at many universities including Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, MIT, Harvard, Cornell, McGill, and the University of Barcelona. He was a 2003/2004 Artist in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he co-taught a course at the Department of Urban Studies with the late Mark Schuster. In 2008 Evans created a new work on the Boston Common for First Night Boston.
Barnaby Evans was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities by Brown University and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Rhode Island College, both in 2000.
Barnaby Evans has also received the Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography, several fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Silver Prize for Colour Photography at the International Triennial Exhibition (in Switzerland) and Providence's Renaissance Award in 1997. He received the 2003 Kevin Lynch Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and WaterFire was honored with the 2003 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence silver medal from the Bruner Foundation, given to Providence for the renaissance of its downtown.
Barnaby Evans was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2011.
