Niki Berg is an artist living in New York whose work is driven by her intuition relating to the passage of time, family relationships and visual pleasure. Her work is intimate and healing.
She is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts for “A Gate Unfastened” and “When Death Comes”. She received the Annenberg Medical Arts Award for “When Death Comes” and has been a fellow at Yaddo as well as the MacDowell Artist Colonies.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 A Gate Unfastened, HerSpace, Long Branch, NJ
2000 A Gate Unfastened, Clement Gallery, University of Toledo, OH
1999 Niki Berg, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
1994 A Gate Unfastened, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1984 My Mother, Myself, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1983 Mothers & Daughters, Honey Sharp Gallery, Lenox, MA
1982 Berkshire Portraits, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
My Mother, Myself, Midtown Y Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Berkshire Portraits, Tisch Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Triacontagon: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Artists' Fellowship Program, NYFA/Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Off the Grid, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Continuum Movement Arts, Mary Abrams Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Face Value: Portraits from Kinsey Institute, Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2011 Away, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Eat Art, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Perchè Pergine, Cultural Center, Pergine Valdarno, Italy
2008 Women, Studio Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany
2007 Making The Scene, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
2005 39th Juried Exhibition, The Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
Essence of Self-Portraiture, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Art Endures, The Annenberg Conference Center, Wynnewood, PA
2004 Art of Survival, HerSpace, Long Branch, NJ
2003 In Their Mother’s Eyes, Plano Art Centre, Plano, TX
2001 American Perspectives, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Confronting Cancer Through Art, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1990 The Inaugural Exhibition, Ellis Island Museum. New York, NY
1989 Photo Perception, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
Mothers of Invention, McNeil Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Swimmers, Aperture/Burden Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Mothers & Daughters, Aperture/Burden Gallery, NY
My Mother, Myself, Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Current Works, Nelson-Watkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1985 Women Photographers in America, Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA
No Shadows, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Current Works, Edwyn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 10th Anniversary Show, Midtown Y Gallery, New York, NY
Women Fine Arts Photographers, Eighth Street Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Group Exhibition, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
Evidence from 12 Photographers, Henry Street Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS
2013 Art Cart: Saving The Legacy, Research Center for Arts and Culture, New York, NY
2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Best in Show: Essence of Self-Portraiture, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
The Annenberg Medical Art Award: First Prize, Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, PA
2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Award in Print Media for Sacred Connections, The American Adoption Congress
1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Award: Catalog Grant, Brooklyn, NY
1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES
1993 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation
1993 The MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
COLLECTIONS
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Polaroid, Cambridge, MA
Ellis Island Museum, New York, NY
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA