Photo by Jean-Christian Bourcart
MARINA BERIO
1966
Born in Boston, USA
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
2006
MFA in Photography, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY
1988
BA, Art History and Studio Art with French Literature minor, Oberlin College, OH
1985-87
Additional study at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Columbia University
Advanced Studies Program and Université de Paris, Paris; Middlebury College, Middlebury VT and Florence, Italy; Persons School of Design, NY
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Ten Photography Lessons for Dead President, RISE, Far Rockaway, New York
2023
Entre Lazos de Sangre y Muros que Arden, Galeria Phuyu, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018
Off Triennale Âme Nue, Hamburg, Germany
Family Matter, Galerie Miranda, Paris, France
2010
Otto Zoo, Milano Italy
2009
Martos Gallery, New York
2008
Burn Breathe, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York
2006
Darkness Visible, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
2004
Untold Stories, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
Untold Stories, Italian Institute for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York
2003
Storie non dette, Acta International Rome, Italy (catalogue)
1997
Where the Stream and River Meet, Mary Barone, New York
1996
McKinney Arts, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
AWAI: MARINA BERIO, AYA FUJIOKA, ASA HIRAMATSU, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
Off the Page project spaces, Photobook Fest, International Center of Photography, New York
10th Anniversary Show, The Halide Project, Philadelphia
2024
(Re)viewing the Land, Galerie Miranda, Paris, France
Photography is ____, Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
2023
Microcoleccionismo, Galería Phuyu, Buenos Aires, Argentina
L’Epreuve de la Matière Nationale, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Looks Good: On Paper, Bienvenu Steinberg and J, New York
Huq: I Seek no Favor, Gallery 5, San Jose State University, San Jose
2022
Summer Selection, Galerie Miranda, Paris, France
2021
What’s your name when you’re at home, Penumbra Foundation, New York
2019
Shiro Oni Studio, Onishi, Japan
Landscape Memory, Galerie Miranda, Paris, France
Bodies of Work, Baxter Street / CCNY, NY
Storied Forms, The Halide Project, Philadelphia
2018
Al camello camello, y al amor amor, Espacio La Cigarra, Medellín, Colombia
2017
Women and Photography, Chiesa di San Francesco, Udine, Italy
Kassel Fotobook Festival, shortlist exhibition, Moscow, Dublin, Lodz and Istanbul
2015
I am a Lie and I am Gold, Yossi Milo Gallery, curated by Marco Breuer
2013
Dear Dave Magazine Presents, Photoville, Brooklyn
Transition, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
2012
Celestial, Camera Club, New York, curated by Mark Alice Durant
L’ Art de Voir Les Choses, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
2011
Pictures Are Words Not Known, LiShui Museum of Photography, LiShui, China
Portraits, La Conciergerie Art Contemporain, La Motte-Servolex, France
Somewhere Over the Rainbow, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Industry City Salon, Marian Spore, Industry City, New York, curated by Michael Connor
Burning Desire, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York
2009
Outside In, La Viola Bank Gallery, curated by Mary Dailey Pattee, New York
Ça me touche, curated by Nan Goldin, Les Rencontres d’Arles Arles, France (catalogue)
Collection, curated by Nan Goldin, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, (catalogue)
Now Your See It, Now You Don’t, Camera Club, New York
2008
Americana, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy (catalogue)
Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York
Back to the Drawing Board, Michael Steinberg Fine art, New York
2007
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou (as part of Nan Goldin installation, catalogue)
Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
2006
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
The Love Show, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
2005
The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Fifteen Paces, Smack Mellon Gallery, New York
2004
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France (catalogue)
2003
Travelling, Centre Photographique d’lle-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France
2001
Collections d’Artistes, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France (catalogue)
Rethinking the Landscape, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, curated by David Armstrong
2000
Natural Wonder, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York
1999
<Y2K, Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Shy, Artists Space, New York, curated by Nan Goldin (catalogue)
Summer Reading, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
1997
Giovani & Sconosciuti: Aspetti della Nuova Fotografia Italiana, CRAF, Spilimbergo, Italy (catalogue)
The Affected Landscape, McKinney Arts, New York
1996
25th Anniversary: 25 Younger Artists, John Weber Gallery, New York
Myth, Memory, Madness, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR/ CONTRIBUTOR
Labey, Christina. “The Red Thread,” Mercuria Magazine, 2025.
Berio, Marina. “Ten Photography Lessons for a Dead President,” self-published artist’s book, 2025.
Berio, Marina. “Burn Breathe,” Rethinking Marxism, Volume 25 Number 1, 2013, ills. Re-issued as standalone zine in both English and Spanish editions in 2018.
Beiro, Marina. Jigarjian, Michi and Mestrich, Qiana, Eds. How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood. New York: Secretary Press, 2012.
Beiro, Marina. Foam International Photography Magazine, Winter 2011/12, ills.
Beiro, Marina. Drawing Paper, No. 3, May 2011, ills.
Beiro, Marina. “Picture Perfect,” Fantom, No. 01, Fall 2009, pp. 73-77, ills.
Beiro, Marina. Untold Stories, Rome: Acta International, 2003. Text by Brigitte Ollier.
SELECTED PRESS
Durant, Mark Alice. “55 Angels & the Modest Sublime,” Dear Dave, No. 11, 2012, ills.
Guerrin, Michel. “Quatre regards de connivence, “Le Monde, October 21, 2003
Ollier, Brigitte. “Marina Beiro,” L’Insensé, Spring 2000, pp. 18-19, ills.
Sales, Liz. “Ourobouros.” Conveyor, September 2014, pp. 52-57, ills.
Twomey, Chris. “The photograph in Question,” M The New York Art World, September 2005, p. 13, ill.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2017-18
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2017
Kassel Fotobook Award Shortlist
2009
ellowship Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, Drawing
2008
Grant, Pollock/ Krasner Foundation, New York
2004
Prize Finalist, Aide as Projet, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2000
Scholarship, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York
1998
Fellowship Grant, The Aaron Siskind Foundation, New York
RASIDENCIES
2025
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, July -August
2019
Shiro Oni, Japan, April to June
2015
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, November
2008
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, April
2007
The Julia and David White Artists’ Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica, January
2001
Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburg, Germany, September
1999
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, November and December
1999
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, October
1998
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, November to January
SELECTED LEXTURES/ VISITING ARTIST
Cocoran Gallery of Art, December 2025
Integrated Design and Media Program, New York University, October 2023
Kenyon College, April 2023
Yale University School of Art, February 2023
Mills College, March and October 2021
Art Work: Whose Labor?, ICP/ Bard MFA symposium, December 2019
Massachusetts College of Art, February 2018
SUNY Purchase, February 2018
Galeria Breve, Mexico City, October 2017
Penumbra Foundation, November 2015
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, Spring 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015
Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Spring 2010, Winter 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Spring 2014
Cooper Union, New York, Spring 2012
UNRWA School, Ramallah, Palestine, December 2010
CURATING
2025
Berio Bambino, Berio Papà, Palazzo Bizzarini, Radicondoli, Italy
2024
I am Not a Photograph, 601 Artspace, New York
2015
Tipping Point, co-curated with Alison Morley, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
2014
Elective Affinities, co-curated with Alison Morley, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
2013
The View from Here, co-curated with Alison Morley, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
2012
My Truth, Your Truth, co-curated with Alison Morley, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
2011
Capture and Release, co-curated with Alison Morley, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
Matthew Monteith: Old School, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
2010
Of Bodies and Other Things, co-curated with Alison Morley, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
2010
Significant Surfaces: Selections from the ICP Class of 2010, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2009
Pluperfect, co-curated with Alison Morley, Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
EXHIBITIONS
AWAI: MARINA BERIO, AYA FUJIOKA, ASA HIRAMATSU