Discipline: Visual Art

Niki Berg

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
More: www.nikiberg.com
Niki Berg is a native New Yorker and uses photography to investigate and document life from birth to death. Her work is driven by intuition regarding the cycle of life, touching on the joy of aging, illness, and generations. Her photographs hold an elegant intensity while she contemplates difficult subject matter. The intimate self-portraits during her journey with breast cancer, frequently included her family. These images are truthful and direct, while her other photographs are more poetic. Her projects also investigate the dynamics of family relationships with a particular interest in mothers and daughters. Berg is a recipient of numerous awards. She was chosen to participate in ART CART: SAVING THE LEGACY in 2012-13. Other awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, first received for A Gate Unfastened followed by When Death Comes, which also received the Annenberg Medical Art Award. Niki has been a fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell. Berg has exhibited at The Berkshire Museum, The Parrish Art Museum, The New York Public Library to name a few. Internationally she has exhibited in Tokyo, Germany, and Italy.

Studios

Nef

Niki Berg worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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