Tanyth Berkeley (born 1969) is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY
Berkeley was born in Hollywood, CA. She is best known for her portraits.[1] Her subjects have included transgendered women,[2] buskers,[3] albinistic people, and people she met on the subway in New York.[4] 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, New York. Her work has drawn comparisons to Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus, Eugène Atget and Lisette Model.[5]
Berkeley received her MFA from Columbia University in 2004.
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