Neil Berger

I was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1971.  I received a BA from Stanford University in Studio Art and Cognitive Science ('93) and an MFA in painting from Boston University ('95).

Since 1995, I have worked as an unaffiliated full-time artist, specializing in oil painting and printmaking. I have received several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting (2004), a Pollock-Krasner Award (2011), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in printmaking (2007) and two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants (2007, 2001).

I moved to Vermont recently and began paintings certain themes over and over again, including Shelburne beach and Battery Park in Burlington. I enjoy capturing people in their transient poses, and seeing the way light hits them. A lot of the Battery Park ones are of African refugees who are total regulars there. I figure these paintings have ended up being timely in this Trumpian era.