susanne melanie berry
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education:
California Instutite of the Arts MFA 2014
University of California, Los Angeles BA (Art major, Visual and Performing Arts Education minor) 2012
Santa Monica College AA/Transfer 2009
Exhibitions:
2024
I'd Love To See You, A Juxtapoz Magazine Story at 30, Part 1 Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, CA
All Killer No Filler One Trick Pony, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Surf Skate Roots Rock The Vortex, Los Angeles, CA
Swell Manhattan Beach Art Center & Gallery, Manhattan Beach, CA
Longshore Drift 2-3 Fair, Santa Monica, CA
2022
Family & Friends Brothers Marshall, Malibu, CA
2021
Dark Beach curated by Innocnts The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA
2019
Creature Comforts H Space, Costa Mesa, CA
The Californians Pacific City Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
2018
We Are The Romantic Ones Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Twosome Tylers, El Segundo, CA
Photo Show Art Sux Anyways/Think Tank, Los Angeles, CA
Where the Clouds fell from the Sky: Thirteen Fridays with Harry Gamboa Jr . (Art book release and signing) LA Art Book Fair, MOCA Geffen Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA
Night on Broadway Think Tank Gallery @ Los Angeles Theater and Tower Theater, Los Angeles, CA
CalArts PhotoLA, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Where the Clouds fell from the Sky (Solo Show) Lime Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Melancholy Menagerie Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CA
Project LALO: To Klingon or not to Klingon Campbell Works, London, United Kingdom
2013
3 Union Shop (collaboration with Felipe Lima and CR Stecyk III) MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Newton's Third F+ Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Dark Beach New Image Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Transitions Art Park, Byron Bay, Australia
Trace (Solo Show) California Institute of the Arts, Main Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Bouba Kiki Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Creepy Creatures 225 Forest, Laguna Beach, CA
Transparencies The Impossible Project, Vienna, Austria
Tandem / Lebensraum- Living Room Videor Art Foundation, Rödermark, Germany
Elvistravaganza Bumbershoot 2012, Seattle, WA
Blacked Out H-Space, Costa Mesa, CA
BYOB (w/ Transmission LA: AV Club) MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Creatures From The Deep 225 Forest, Laguna Beach, CA
Tandem / Lebensraum - Living Room 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA (April)
The Devil’s Highway 225 Forest, Laguna Beach, CA
Tandem / Lebensraum - Living Room Freitagsküche, Frankfurt, Germany (February)
2011
Anti-Canvas Hurley, Honolulu, HI
Champagne Fountains New Genres Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Co-Lab Jaus Gallery @ ArtPlatform, Los Angeles, CA
Now What! The Icon, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Soul Sis Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Back to Back: a collaboration: Jossi Gandhi & Susanne Melanie Berry 1147 Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Here’s Your Hat. What’s Your Hurry New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Exteriors and Underbellies Lipps & Hubbs Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA
UCLA Under Grad Juried Show New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA
2010
Ménage à Trois New Image Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Come As You Are Prism Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Swell 1950-2010 Metro Pictures/Fredrich Petzel Gallery/Nyehaus, New York, NY
Nice & FUBAR Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Salt (Solo Show) Broad Photo Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA
ETA 3 Living Room, Los Angeles, CA
Put Your Finger On The Button New Image Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA
UCLA Under Grad Juried Show New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA
2009
Skate Board: Evolution & Art in California The California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA
Le Grande Skate Event 27 Market Street, Venice, CA
Specimen (Solo Show) Broad Photo Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Air 117 Peter and Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Joshua Tree Photo Exhibition UCR | California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Seminal Transmissions McNish Art Gallery, Oxnard, CA
Intimate Oddities 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2008
Rip the Ripper Powell Peralta/ASR, San Diego, CA
Escape to Reality: 24 hrs @ 24 fps UCR | California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Overhung Concrete Walls, Los Angeles, CA
Art Chest Hurley w/Apple, West Hollywood, CA
So Fly Peter and Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007
Surfography A&I, Santa Monica, CA
2006
Skate.Photo.Life A&I, Santa Monica, CA
2003
LALALA Design By Design And Not By Design Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
Exhibition Catalogs:
Air 117; Santa Monica College, 2009
So Fly; Santa Monica College, 2008
Rip the Ripper. California; Powell Peralta, 2009
Surfography. California; A&I, 2007
Bibliography:
Where The Clouds Fell From The Sky: Thirteen Fridays with Harry Gamboa Jr, Self-Published, 2015
3 Union Shop: Volume No. 01, Self-Published, 2014
3 Union Shop: Volume No. 02, Self-Published, 2014
Bird Dog, Magic Bird Press, 2013
Still Developing: A Story of Instant Gratification; ISM, 2010
Press:
Sunday Drive With Joe Donnelly-Home is Where the ART is, The Argonaut, August 10 2015
"Newton's Third" is F+ Gallery's Balancing Act, OC Weekly, October 17 2013
Best of L.A. 2011: Best Secret Gallery on the Westside: Jaus, LA Weekly, October 06 2011
Show Stoppers, Juxtapoz Magazine, January 2011
Ménage A Trois , Juice Magazine, Issue No. 68, 2010
First Couple of Public Transportation, LA Weekly, January 07 2010
Filmography:
Susanne Melanie Berry X C.R. Stecyk III (Barton Perreira Campaign), Self, 2018
Made In Venice (Documentary), Self, 2016
Hi-Shredibility: Craig Stecyk (News piece), Self, Vice Sprts, 2015
Fox News (News), Self, 2009
Lords of Dogtown (Movie), Self, 2005
Venice Underground “Venice By The Sea” (Music Video), Self, 2005
Adrift (dvd reissue) 2002
A Girls Best Friend is “Surfing” (Documentary), Self, 1999
Contributing Photographer:
Frank151
Monster Children
Venice Paper
Juxtapoz Magazine
Juice Magazine
2nd Unit Director:
3 Union Shop, 2013
MOCATV
Cinematographer:
3 Union Shop, 2013
MOCATV
Luxuria by CR Stecyk III, 2011
exhibited: Art in the Streets, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Video Editor:
Luxuria (China Edit) by CR Stecyk III, 2022
upcoming: Beyond the Streets, Shanghai, China
Bicycle by CR Stecyk III, 2009
exhibited: Re:Cycle - Bike Culture in Southern California, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA