About

Coco Berryessa is a photographic artist who pairs image and text to examine identity, impermanence, and what we carry. Chance has long shaped her work, entering now through the historic photographic processes she favors, which keep her close to the substance of the image and 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 keeping. 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 in photography full-time, teaching the craft of it and finding reward in helping students make and defend art of their own. She lives and works in Utah.