Tanyth Berkeley
{{Short description|American artist}}
Tanyth Berkeley (born 1969) is an artist and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY.
Berkeley was born in Hollywood, CA. She is best known for her portraits.[http://moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5140 MOMA.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014153032/http://moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5140 |date=2007-10-14 }} Her subjects have included transgender women,[http://www.dailyserving.com/photography/ DailyServing.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070325190350/http://www.dailyserving.com/photography/ |date=2007-03-25 }} buskers,[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E2DB1438F937A25752C0A9639C8B63 The New York Times online] people with albinism, and people she met on the subway in New York City.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050113085745/http://www.re-title.com/artists/tanyth-berkeley.asp Re-Title.com]}} Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art's "New Photography" exhibition in 2007 as well as at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and two solo exhibitions at Bellwether Gallery, New York.
Berkeley received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 2004.
Selected exhibitions
2009
Grace, Danziger Project, New York
2007
New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Muse, The Fugitive & The Frequency, Bellwether, New York
L’Autre, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia
2005
Beyond the Portrait, Piazza Oberdan, Milan
Greater New York, MOMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
White Out, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
2004
Flicker, Socrates Sculpture Garden, Long Island City
2002
A Special Place, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn
2001
Young Guns II, Art Director's Club, New York
References
External links
- Documentary about Tanyth Berkeley [http://www.amadelio.org/ PEOPLE * LOVE * PHOTOS by amadelio film], release date: August, 2009
- Interview with Who Walk In Brooklyn {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090707192302/http://www.whowalkinbrooklyn.com/?p=1518 Photographer Tanyth Berkeley Is Looking At YOU]}}, June 24, 2009
- [http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/orchidaceae/ Interview] with The Morning News
- Images, texts and biography from the [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/tanyth_berkeley.htm Saatchi Gallery]
- Further information from [http://www.bellwethergallery.com/artistsindex_01.cfm?fid=83 Bellwether Gallery]
- Tanyth Berkeley on [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/27387 ArtFacts.net]
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Category:American portrait painters
Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni