María Berrío
María Berrío | |
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 María Berrío, 2019 | |
| Born | 1982 |
| Nationality | Colombian, American |
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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[edit]
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] Berrío's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.[11]
In 2023, Berrio presented a major solo show María Berrío: The Children's Crusade at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The set of large-scale paintings in the show were part of the series of same time that takes inspiration on contemporary stories of border crossing juxtaposed with the Children’s Crusade of 1212 telling, in which thousands of children pilgrimage through Italy and France to convert Muslims to Christianity.[12][13]
Berrío's work is included in the exhibition and accompanying publication Spirit in the Land, organized by and displayed in the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in 2023, and traveling to the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2024. The exhibition revolves around the need for coexistence between natural worlds and human life, particularly thinking through the work of artists from North America and the Caribbean.[14][15][16]
References[edit]
- ^ "María Berrío's Multitextural Latin American Dreamscapes". 2019-06-05. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "Review: María Berrío's dream-like collages deploy paper like paint". Los Angeles Times. 2019-06-17. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ Sherry, Paik (2020). "María Berrío Biography". Ocula.
- ^ "María Berrío". The Georgia Review.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Acquires Thirteen Works". Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "Recent Acquisitions". www.nga.gov. Retrieved Mar 16, 2020.
- ^ "María Berrio". Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces Inaugural Fellows". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ^ "Women Painting Women". Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
- ^ Whyte, Murray (February 21, 2023). "At the ICA, childhood lost in transition". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- ^ María Berrío: The Children's Crusade, retrieved 2023-09-19
- ^ "Spirit in the Land". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Spirit in the Land • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ Schoonmaker, Trevor (2023). Spirit in the land: Exhibition, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2023. Durham, North Carolina: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. ISBN 978-0-938989-45-5.
