Cleo Barnett is a New Zealand-born creative director, multimedia artist, and impact strategist based between Mexico City and Los Angeles. Since 2009, Barnett has collaborated with renowned artists, philanthropists, movement leaders, and impact-driven businesses to bring to life public art interventions, festivals, immersive experiences, and impact campaigns aimed at fostering critical thinking and nurturing compassion on a global scale. Grounded in community empowerment through the arts and mass media experiments, Cleo's work seeks to ignite positive social change rooted in harmony with nature.

Drawing inspiration from her upbringing, where spirituality and a connection with nature were central, Cleo's private art practice explores themes of surrealism and alchemy. Influenced by mystic philosophies and a life spent moving between cities and rural communities set within untamed natural environments, Cleo's art delves into the poetics of space and creating portals to alternative states of consciousness.

Currently serving as the Executive Director of Amplifier, a non-profit design lab dedicated to amplifying social and environmental movements through media experiments, Cleo has been instrumental in spearheading a historic portfolio of groundbreaking media experiments. This endeavor has resulted in the distribution of millions of iconic artworks in public spaces globally, in collaboration with thousands of renowned artists and social movements.

Her work has been featured at prestigious institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, as well as in prominent media outlets including The New York Times, NPR, PBS, CNN, and VICE. Cleo holds an M.A. in Art and Public Policy from New York University, and a double B.A. in Political Science and International Business from the University of Auckland.