Berry, John
John Rabb Emison Professor of Creative and Performing Arts, Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Interim Chair of the Art and Art History Department
- BFA Rhode Island School of Design, 2004, Illustration
- MFA Indiana University, 2009, Painting
Teaching Interests
Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Contemporary Art
Course Regularly Taught
- ARTS 153A - Introduction to Painting
- ARTS 152A - Drawing: Learning to See
- ARTS 256/356 - Painting: The Contemporary Figure (Power, Privilege, and Diversity course)
Research Interests
I use flat shapes and simple forms to compartmentalize space into different surfaces, hiding spots, and barricades. I am interested in how the crude artifice of spatial illusion - the fakery of it - can be used to hide more rather than less, a seemingly wider range of frequencies packed into a smaller, simpler encounter.
Selected Awards
- 2023 - (upcoming) Residency, Pada Studios, Barreiro,Portugal
- 2021 - New American Paintings Midwest issue #155
- 2018 - Residency and Stipend, Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany
- 2016 - Residency, Si Shang Museum, Beijing, China
- 2013 - Residency and Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
- 2008 - Louis Mcnutt Fellowship Grant, Indiana University
- 2008 - Della Fricke Teaching Award, Indiana University