Deborah Barr is a contemporary artist who draws on her interest in anthropology and spiritual and cultural traditions from around the world. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from San Jose State University and a BA from Mills College, where she studied with Hung Liu. 

Barr has exhibited in the USA; Colombia; Nairobi, Kenya and Moscow, Russia, Monaco, France, Madrid, Spain; Berlin ,Germany and Luxembourg. 

Barr taught art at Columbia College, Merced College, and San Jose State University and is a full-time Professor at Modesto Junior College in California. She teaches Beginning Painting, Advanced Painting, Mural Painting, Basic Drawing, Figure Drawing, Art Appreciation and Color & Design.

In addition to numerous awards for her work, including the American Business Women's Association National Achievement Award, she won a scholarship to study mural making at the National Academy of Art and Design and has completed murals at the MJC Performing Arts Center and Kaiser Hospital in California.