About

Coco Berryessa is a photographic artist currently exploring identity, impermanence, and what we carry. Chance occurrences have long shaped her work, now entering through the historic photographic processes that keep her close to the substance of her imagery and which leave room for the unrepeatable. Much of her recent work turns to ordinary daily life: the domestic, the overlooked, the things a day is made of. Drawn to understanding what’s worth noticing before it changes or transforms, she works in a register of wonder and lets the everyday accumulate into something worth materializing. Poems increasingly share the frame as companion pieces, independent of the photographs and inseparable from them.

Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries, featured in books and curated projects, several of them award-winning. Coco holds a BFA in Photography from Utah Valley University, where she went on to lecture full-time in photography, teaching the craft and finding reward in helping students make and defend art of their own. She lives and works in Utah.