NIKO BERGER
ABOUT ME
My sculptural practice is founded within my personal experience as a gender-nonbinary individual, and much of my work could be classified as self portraiture. I am interested in gender identity politics and the conflicts created surrounding corporeal embodiment: the qualities of existing within the confines of the body’s finite matter. More specifically, I explore the dialogue between abjection, autonomy and adornment where the overgrown and uncontained body dominates form. My practice uses steel, latex, resin, plaster, soft sculpture, and more to explore material transformations through process and experimentation. I am interested in the visual agency of matter to transform itself where it crosses the corporeal edge, and how abjection can hold immense power when embraced.

Education
2020 - 2024
Bachelors of Fine Arts University of Oregon
Awards
2020
Summit Scholarship
2024
Robert C. and Jane A. Gehring Scholarship Fund
Exhibitions
Solo
2023
In Self-Defense, Washburn Gallery
2024
Slips, Slumps, Self., Washburn Gallery
2024
Corporeal Subterranea, LaVerne Krause Gallery
Group
2023
SURGE. LaVerne Krause Gallery
2024
Poetics of Relation, LaVerne Krause Gallery
2024
Spring Storm, Lawrence Hall

Art Handler
I recently interned at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) in their prep department, developing my skills in fine art and artifact handling, transport, installation and preservation.










