Education
She studied at the College of Fine Arts of the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993.
She studied at the College of Fine Arts of the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993.
She was later employed at the College as a lecturer. She has held numerous solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne since her first in 1995. She is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney.
Delegate Kathryn Barton 2008 exhibition Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne Delegate Kathryn Barton 2005 exhibition Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.
On 7 March 2008, it was announced that Barton had won the 2008 Archibald Prize for portraiture, for You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella, a self-portrait with her two children. In 2013, she won the Archibald Prize for her portrait of actor Hugo Weaving. She was also an Archibald Prize finalist in 2007 and 2011.