Tanyth Berkeley is an artist based in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, NY

Berkeley was born in Hollywood, CA. She is best known for her portraits. Her subjects have included transgendered women

Transgender

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, buskers, albinistic

Albinism

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 people, and people she met on the subway in New York

New York

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. She has been included in the Museum of Modern Art, New York's prestigious "New Photography" series of exhibitions (2007 exhibition) as well as exhibitions at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and two solo gallery exhibitions at Bellwether

Bellwether Gallery

Bellwether Gallery was a New York City art gallery based in Chelsea. Director and owner Becky Smith was recognized as an important promoter of emerging artists since the gallery's 1999 opening in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn...

, New York. Her work has drawn comparisons to Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin

Nancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest...

, Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....

, Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget

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 and Lisette Model

Lisette Model

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.

Berkeley received her MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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 from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 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

External links

• Documentary about Tanyth Berkeley PEOPLE * LOVE * PHOTOS by amadelio film, release date: August, 2009
• Interview with Who Walk In Brooklyn Photographer Tanyth Berkeley Is Looking At YOU, June 24, 2009
• Interview with The Morning News
  The Morning News (online magazine)
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• Images, texts and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
• Further information from Bellwether Gallery
• Tanyth Berkeley on ArtFacts.net