Damion Berger (born London, 1978) is a conceptual photographer and new media artist living and working in New York City.
Starting his photographic career as an assistant to the famed fashion photographer Helmut Newton, Berger went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2001. Creating a unique body of work that operates between abstraction and conceptualism, Berger's work is conceptually driven and process based - making the viewer question the possibilities of photography and its relationship to time and movement. His work has been collected by institutions such as the Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA; The Max Mara Collection, New York, USA; and the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, USA.
Berger's work has been exhibited internationally in multiple solo and group exhibitions. A list of some recent exhibitions include:
June 2016, SPF16: NYC Pools and Beaches in Contemporary Photograph, Arsenal Gallery, New York City
April 2016, Fire & Water, Galleria Il Castello, Milan, Italy
September 2015, Vignettes, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
March 2015, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
December 2014 - March 2015, Modern Alchemy: Experimentation in Photography, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, [New York
June 2014, Hello Midtown!, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
December 2013, Lisa Sette Gallery at Art Miami 2013, Art Miami, Miami, Florida
June 2013, Pools of Light, Oxenberg Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
March 2013, AIPAD Photography Fair - Solo Presentation, Lisa Sette Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York
March 2013, Fotofest 2012's Discoveries of the Meeting Place, University Art Museum, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
January 2013, Dark Blue The Water as Protagonist, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
December 2012, Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami, Florida
March 2012, 10 Discoveries - selected by John Rohrbach, Amon Carter Museum, Fotofest 2012, Houston, Texas
February 2010, New Visions, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
October 2009, The Curve: Center's Award Recipients, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington
June 2009, Hot Fun in The Summertime, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2009, Damion Berger, Donald Baechler and Jan Van Naeltjwick, Art & Rapy Contemporary, Monaco, France
2009, PX3, Prix de la Photographie Exhibition, Espace Dupon, Paris, France
January 2009, Flash Forward '08, Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2009, Flash Forward '08, Griffin Photography Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
December 2008, Flash Forward '08, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, New York, NY
October 2008, Flash Forward '08, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007, H20, To b. Art Gallery, Saint Barthélemy, French West Indies
Selected publications include:
2014, Flash Forward Tenth - 10 Years of Flashforward, Magenta Foundation, Canada
2012, Pools: Reflections - Kelly Klein, Hardcover, 240 pages, Rizzoli, New York
2011, In The Deep End - Damion Berger, Hardcover, 38 Titrone Plates, Schilt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Selected press includes:
In Huntington, an Exhibition of Pioneering Photography Through the Ages, New York Times, Jane L. Levere, February 13, 2015
Introducing: Damion Berger “In The Deep End”, Aserica Magazine, Lu JiaYing, December 7, 2014
Experiments in photography push the envelope and reference the classics at Heckscher, LI Pulse, Drew Moss, November 21, 2014
Hello Midtown! Lisa Sette Debuts It's New Midtown Phoenix Location, Artsy, June 2014
Art in review: AIPAD Photography Show, New York Times, Ken Johnson, April 4, 2013
AIPAD Photography Show: Top Ten, Art in America, Tracy Zwick, April 5, 2013
Contemporary Photographers Stand Out at NY’s AIPAD Fair, Blouin ARTINFO, Lori Fredrickson, April 5, 2013
AIPAD 2013 at the Armory, AI-PI Design Arts Daily, Peggy Roalf, April 4, 2013
Intriguing Art with Social Commentary at Art Miami, Artsy, December 2013
Damion Berger, Jill Greenberg, Erwin Olaf, Stephen Wilkes…, FotoMAGAZIN ‘Portfolio Issue’, No.2, 2012
Damion Berger: In The Deep End, LENSCRATCH, October 8, 2012
Winners of the 5th Annual Spider Awards, The Photo Paper
Esteemed image makers name their favourites, American Photo, Jack Crager, May 2010
Backstory: Damion Berger goes below the surface, Popular Photography, Lori Fredrickson, February 2010
Ventiquatro Magazine, Il Sole 24, September 4, 2009
Bomblog: Damion Berger, Bomb Magazine, Alec Quig, July 27, 2009
Q & A with Damion Berger, Photo District News, Amber Terranova, June 18, 2009
In The Deep End, NPR The Picture Show, Claire O’Neill, June 11, 2009
Interview with Photographer Damion Berger, Alec Quig, June 2009
The Wail of the 1%, New York Magazine, April 27, 2009
The Getaway Plan, New York Magazine, March 29, 2009
Tomorrow’s People, British Journal of Photography, May 28, 2008
Review: In The Deep End at the Eden Rock, St Barths, Mic Magazine, August 2007
Special Art: L’Art coup de Coeur, Cote Magazine, June 2007
Interview: ‘In The Deep End’ a la galerie Art & Rapy, Cote Magazine, May 2006
Spotlight: Damion Berger, B&W Magazine, Issue 31, June 2004
R.S.V.P: An Invitation into Damion Berger’s World, PDN Photo District News, Jacqueline Tobin
Rien ne va plus, is Damion Berger a master in the making?, Hotshoe, Melissa De Witt
