Marina Berio was born to an Italian father and a Japanese American mother. She studied photography, drawing, sculpture, and art history before earning her MFA in Photography from Bard College. She has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock/Krasner Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Millay Colony. Her work was recently featured in a major historical survey on materiality in photography at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and she has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Miranda (Paris), Galería Phuyu (Buenos Aires), Michael Steinberg Fine Art (New York), and the OFF Triennale (Hamburg).  Her recent project, Ten Photography Lessons for a Dead President, is an artist’s book exploring her family history and the incarceration of her relatives—along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans—during World War II.