Berette S Macaulay

Berette S Macaulay is an artist, curator, and writer of multicultural lineage, born in Sierra Leone of West African/ French-Dominican/German-Czech descent, raised in Jamaica and the UK before moving to the USA. Her practices engage be/longing + memory, im/migration, and trans*national identities. Her oeuvre consists of conceptual, documentary, and traditional studies in portraiture, modalities of community performance, autoethnographic witnessing of diasporic Black life, and relational or abstracted studies of movement, light, and natural space. Macaulay holds a BA in Theater Arts and an MA in Cultural Studies. She has exhibited at Art Alive Gallery, India; Melkweg Expo, Netherlands; MOCA, Detroit; and SPE-Arte, Brazil among others, with work acquired by National Gallery of Jamaica. She is the founder of Black Cinema Collective (BCC) and is currently based in Washington State.