María Berrío

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María Berrío
Maria Berrio Studio.jpg
María Berrío, 2019
Born1982
Bogotá, Colombia
NationalityColombian, American
Alma mater

María Berrío (born 1982) is a Colombian-born visual artist working in Brooklyn, New York.[1] The LA Times wrote that Berrío's large-scale collage works, "meticulously crafted from layers of Japanese paper, reflect on cross-cultural connections and global migration seen through the prism of her own history."[2] She is known for her use of Japanese print paper, which she cuts and tears to create collages with details painted in with watercolour. Berrío, who spent her childhood in Colombia and moved to the US in her teens, draws from Colombian folklore and South American literature.[3] In her interview with The Georgia Review in 2019, the artist discusses the tradition of aluna of the Kogi people in her work Aluna (2017).[4] Berrío's collages are characterised by representations of mainly women, who often stare back at the viewer.

Career[]

Her work is included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami,[5] the Yuz Museum Shanghai,[6] the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,[7] the National Gallery of Art,[8] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[9] In 2021, Berrío was awarded the Joan Mitchell Fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "María Berrío's Multitextural Latin American Dreamscapes". 2019-06-05. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  2. ^ "Review: María Berrío's dream-like collages deploy paper like paint". 2019-06-17. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  3. ^ Sherry, Paik (2020). "María Berrío Biography". Ocula.
  4. ^ "María Berrío". The Georgia Review.
  5. ^ "Pérez Art Museum Miami Acquires Works by 11 Artists, Including Abbas Kiarostami and Cecilia Vicuña". 2019-05-15. Archived from the original on 2019-05-23. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  6. ^ "Art en Route: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Gets a Second Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Installation, Christie's Sells King Tutankhamun Sculpture for $6 M., and More". 2019-07-08. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  7. ^ "Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Acquires Thirteen Works". Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  8. ^ "Recent Acquisitions". www.nga.gov. Retrieved Mar 16, 2020.
  9. ^ "María Berrio". Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  10. ^ "Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces Inaugural Fellows". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
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