Barbara DeGenevieve (1947-2014) was an interdisciplinary artist who worked in photography, video, and performance. She lectured widely on her work as well as subjects including sexuality, gender, transsexuality, censorship, ethics, and pornography. Her writing on these subjects has been published in art, photographic, and scholarly journals, and her work has been exhibited internationally. She was awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowships and was the recipient of three Illinois Arts Council grants among others. DeGenevieve was formerly a Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

DeGenevieve received her MA in photography from the University of New Mexico in 1980 and the same year began teaching at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994, she taught at San José State University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the California College of Art.