Barry Feldman was born in 1945 in New York city. He graduated from Swarthmore college with a bachelor in art history in 1967. Though at the time there was no studio program, he received a summer studies grant to study painting and presented his work at the Swarthmore college art gallery.
In 1971 he purchased a farm in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia of Canada, built a studio, began a family and continued to paint. In 1978 he was awarded the “Canada Council for the Arts Grant”.
In 1981 he returned to New York city and in 1989 he moved to Thessaloniki in Greece, where three years later he co-founded an artists’ space and gallery.
In 1996 he created the S. Doute Museum of Not Art, which was featured on Greek national television twice.
He owns a studio in Thessaloniki (Greece) and in Cape Breton (Nova Scotia, Canada).