Barbara Duval received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1978 and an M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art in 1982. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and abroad, and is included in numerous public and private collections, among them: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Fogg Art Museum, and the Contemporary Art and Culture Center in Osaka Japan.
She has received numerous awards including a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in Painting/Graphic Art to Berlin, Germany; a Belgian American Education Foundation Fellowship in Painting/Printmaking to Antwerp, Belgium; two South Carolina Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowships; and two Ford Foundation Grants.
In 2001 she received the College of Charleston's Distinguished Research Award. She had been a professor of studio art at the college since 1982.
