Marina Berio’s work interrogates the material underpinnings of photography. She has made family pictures out of blood, and large-scale charcoal drawings of negatives. During her most recent MacDowell residency, she photographed tracings, rubbings, and drawings on the walls of her studio, in an attempt to map the process of becoming of a project that might never be completed and finalized.
Berio grew up in New York City and in Italy. She studied photography, drawing, sculpture, and art history in college, and then earned her M.F.A. in photography at Bard. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock/Krasner Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation Award, and been invited to various residencies other than MacDowell including Yaddo and Millay in the US, Schloss Plüschow in Germany and Shiro Oni in Japan. She has exhibited at various art spaces internationally, including Michael Steinberg Fine Arts, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Von Lintel Gallery, Smack Mellon, and Artists Space in New York; Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art in Boston; Les Rencontres d’Arles and Galerie Miranda in France; at the Hamburg Off Triennale; and Otto Zoo and Acta International in Italy. Her work has been published in Conveyor, Foam and Fantom.
Berio teaches at the International Center of Photography and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She lives in Far Rockaway and her studio is in Brooklyn, New York.
