• Berette S. Macaulay
• University of Washington, Black Cinema Collective, On the Boards

“Berette S Macaulay is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and scholar, born in Sierra Leone, raised in Jamaica and currently living in Washington. Her work interrogates liminal points of beingness – (Black) multiplicity, trans*nationality, and trans*cultural negotiations. Recurring themes deal with be/longing, movement vocabularies, identity-performance, il/legibility, love, memory, and mythmaking. These shapeshifting embodiments emerge in her family histories, the geographies her peoples occupy, and her chosen practices.

Berette earned her BA in Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College and MA in Cultural Studies at the University of Washington. Recent exhibitions include Melkweg Expo (Netherlands), Art Alive (India), SP-Arte (Brazil), Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and Annenberg Space for Photography (US). Permanent collections include National Gallery of Jamaica and International Center for Photography (as ‘SeBiArt’). She has received artist grants and residencies from National Performance Network, Vermont Studio Center, Black Embodiments Studio, Shunpike Arts, 4Culture, and Wa Na Wari.

Her curatorial work includes illusive self at Taller Boricua Gallery, Exploring Passages in the Black Diaspora at Photographic Center NW, and SHAPESHIFTERS – a film program for Black Refractions Exhibition at Frye Art Museum. Publications include Black Arts in Seattle Journal, Feminist Media Histories (UC Press), UNESCO Courier, MFON, Of Note, and World Policy Journal.

Berette received the Champion of Seattle Arts award, the UW Ottenberg-Winans Fellowship for African Studies, and is the Curatorial Fellow at On the Boards where her performance project “[UN-TITLED]” is in development, co-commissioned by BRIC Arts New York. She serves as Art Liaison Manager at Henry Art Gallery and is the founder of Black Cinema Collective.”