María Berrío

[1] The LA Times wrote that Berrío's large-scale collage works, "meticulously crafted from layers of Japanese paper, reflect on cross-cultural connections and global migration seen through the prism of her own history.

Berrío, who spent her childhood in Colombia and moved to the US in her teens, draws from Colombian folklore and South American literature.

During this time, she mainly trained in charcoal drawing and painting, until she discovered Japanese paper and started incorporating it in her collages during her MFA.

The exhibition revolves around the need for coexistence between natural worlds and human life, particularly thinking through the work of artists from North America and the Caribbean.

Berrío bases a lot of the storytelling of her collages as a part of South American folklore, in the way that meshes nature and humans to coexist in a kind of harmony.