EDUCATION
2013 MFA in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2003 MA in Performance Studies, New York University, New York, NY
2001 BS in Theatre, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
SELECT EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES
2022 Solo exhibition, OK: New Works by Allison Berkoy, University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2022 START, part of FLUID: Art + Tech Exhibition, Harvestworks at Governors Island, New York, NY
2021 CICA Experimental Film and Video, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea
2020 FEMeeting Web 2020 (co-hosted by FEMeeting, Cultivamos Cultura (PT), Leonardo/OLATS (FR) and The Sanctuary for Independent Media (US)), online exhibition
2020 Bioscientific Imaginaries, Allegheny College Gallery, Meadville, PA (with Kathy High, video screening of Fecal Matters)
2019 Are You Prepared? V.1 Prototype, NYC College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY (performance)
2019 Forest for the Trees, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, NL (with Kathy High, video screening of Fecal Matters)
2018 Space Evolution, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico (with Kathy High, video screening of Fecal Matters, catalogue)
2018 Parallel Realities, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY (with Kathy High, video screening of Fecal Matters)
2017 Latent Content Analysis, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Stronger Together, Creative Tech Week at Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2017 Gut Love: You Are My Future 2.0, Esther Klein Gallery, Science Center, Philadelphia, PA (with Kathy High, video screening of Fecal Matters)
2016 Solo Exhibition, Performance, University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2016 The Arts Hub, Creative Tech Week at The Clemente, New York, NY
2016 Gut Reaction, and Emergent Ecologies, Olivares Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, PA and respectively Kilroy Metal Prods., Brooklyn, NY (with Kathy High, video screening of Fecal Matters)
2016 Gut Instinct: Art, Design, and the Microbiome, sponsored by the Bridge virtual residency through the SciArt Center, NYC, online exhibition (with Kathy High, video screening of Fecal Matters)
2016 Thumper, premiered online with screening by New Noise Magazine (music video, with music by Netherlands, from the album “Audubon”, Prosthetic Records)
2015 Solo Exhibition, Functioning, Peephole Gallery at Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2015 InLight, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2015 Waste Matters: You Are My Future, UCLA, Art|Sci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (with Kathy High, video screening of Fecal Matters)
2015 Faculty Exhibition, DDA Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Solo Exhibition, Company, Harvestworks, New York, NY
2014 Of Landscape, Fountain Art Fair at 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY (curated by Andrea Wolf, REVERSE Gallery)
2014 Justice, Succulent Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Alienation on Mysterious Networks, Fonlad, Coimbra, Portugal (screening)
2013 Solo Exhibition, Untitled Apocalypse, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY
2013 To-NYC/Breaking Boundaries, Superbudda, Torino, Italy
2013 Collar City Film Festival, Troy, NY (screening)
2013 Sixteen, premiered online with Burning Ambulance, quarterly journal of arts and culture (music video, with music by Netherlands, from the album “Silicon Vapor”)
2012 Guild of the Black Eagle 5, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Spectrum Vision, Reverse Space, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Brooklyn Bound, Colacino Gallery, Rochester, NY
2012 Canteen Magazine Pop-Up Gallery, New York Public Library, New York, NY
2011 Solo Exhibition, Rec Room, Lambert Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011 Solo Exhibition, Another Night in the Caboose of Magical Light, Sponsored by Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY
2011 Oscillations, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2011 Lumen Festival, Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY
2011 Camera Vivant, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
2011 Jellyfish/Foam on Top, online screening (music video, with music by Epstein / Roberto Carlos Lange / Helado Negro, from the album “Sealess Sea”, Asthmatic Kitty Records)
2011 Stallions, online screening (music video, with music by Netherlands, from the album “Fantasmatic”)
2010 Two-Person Exhibition, Allison Berkoy & R Ravisankar, Dean’s Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Solo Exhibition, Into the Belly of the Lightship, Sponsored by Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY
2010 Push the Button, Installation sponsored by Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL
2010 DUMBO Arts Festival, Juried exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Hope Blossoms, The Margulies Warehouse, Miami, FL
2009 Solo Exhibition, Caboose of Magical Light, Sponsored by Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY
2009 Succulent Girl Friday, sponsored by Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL
2008 Guaranteed Good, Leo Kesting Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Preview Year Five, Capla Kesting Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Polished and Loud, Maiden Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Triskaidekaphelia, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY (video performance, with Other Passengers)
2006 Sun Khronos Video Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY (screening)
2005 Things Will Never Be the Same, Elsa's on the Park, Milwaukee, WI (commissioned video installation)
2005 AmbientNois Festival, The Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 {R}ake, Monkey Town. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY (video performance, with Other Passengers)
2004 Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA (video performance, with Synaesthesiologists)
2004 Freight, Chelsea Market Art Space, New York, NY (video performance, with Irwin’s Conspiracy)
2003 Epithelium 3.0, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY (multimedia performance, with D Pendergast)
2003 Epithelium 2.0, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY (multimedia performance, with D Pendergast)
2003 Epithelium 1.0, Bailiwick Theater, Chicago, IL (multimedia performance, with D Pendergast)
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS, GRANTS
2022-now New York University, Integrated Design + Media (IDM), Artist in Residence, NYC
2022 Harvestworks, Artist Scholar, NYC
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, NYC
2022 PSC-CUNY Research Award, NYC
2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, COVID-19 Emergency Grant, NYC
2021 PSC-CUNY Research Award, NYC
2020 New York State and City University of New York, GRTI Research Grant, NYC
2017 Pratt Institute, Faculty Development Grant, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Signal Culture, Artist Residency, Owego, NY
2015 InLight Richmond, Project Grant, Richmond, VA
2014 Harvestworks, Project Support Grant, NYC
2012 McKinney Contest at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, First Place in Electronic Media, Troy, NY
2012 Center for Cognition, Communication, and Culture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Research Grant, Troy, NY
2011 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MFA Fellowship Award, Troy, NY
2010 Experimental Television Center, Artist Residency, Owego, NY
2009 Experimental Television Center, Artist Residency, Owego, NY
2010 DUMBO Arts Festival, Project Support Grant, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Brooklyn College, PIMA Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2003 HERE Arts Center, Project Support Grant, New York, NY
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2022 Future Bodies, New Media Caucus Symposium at Virginia Tech; presentation for Capitalism, Surveillance + Cyborgs panel: YOU ARE PREPARED: A Body-Controlling Interactive Installation for the Personal Environment, Blacksburg, VA
2022 FEMEETING: Women in Art, Science and Technology; at Royal Palace of Évora - Palácio de Dom Manuel I; presentation for In the Flesh panel: Prototyping a Body-Controlling Performance for Self-Optimization; Lisbon and Évora, Portugal
2021 Artist Lecture Series at Sonoma State University, California State University, presented by the Art and Art History Department, artist talk, online
2021 Learning to Teach Creative Technologies Remotely: a Virtual UnSymposium, hosted by New York University, Integrated Digital Media, presentation for Physical Education panel: From “Are You Prepared?” to “You are Prepared”: an R&D lab and a talking balloon move online, online
2019 Border Control, New Media Caucus Symposium at University of Michigan, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, presentation for Creative Problem Solving panel: Are You Prepared?, and moderator for Pedagogy panel, Ann Arbor, MI
2017 Analyzing Latent Content Analysis at The Lodge Gallery, artist panel discussion for exhibition of Latent Content Analysis, New York, NY
2017 Interactions, artist talks curated by Hackaday NYC, hosted by ThoughtWorks, New York, NY
2017 Creative Tech Week Conference, hosted by NYIT, artist talk, New York, NY
2017 New Media Caucus Showcase, College Art Association Conference satellite event hosted by Hunter College, artist talk, New York, NY
2016 Art + Tech, artist talks curated by Culturadora at Lifion Innovation Lab, New York, NY
2016 ISEA International, 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, hosted by City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media, presentation for Game Art panel: Company, Hong Kong
2016 4D + Time-Based Art: Visiting Artist Series at University of Tennessee, School of Art, artist talk: In Performance, Knoxville, TN
2015 Allison Berkoy Talks about Company, invited and hosted by Harvestworks, artist talk, New York, NY
2015 Guest critic, invited by School of Visual Arts, MFA Interaction Design, New York, NY
2014 Leaders in Software and Art (LISA) Salon, artist talk, New York, NY
2014 Guest lecture: Creative Tech in Art Education, at School of Visual Arts, MAT Art Education, New York, NY
2013 The Volumetric Society, hosted by Harvestworks, artist talk: Kinect in Performance, New York, NY
2013 Held in Trust: Indeterminate Forms at Residency Unlimited, artist talk and discussion with curator Emily Zimmerman, New York, NY
2013 Slideluck Miami, presentation of artworks, Miami, FL
2012 Artist talk at Skidmore College, Digital Film, Saratoga Springs, NY
2012 Launch event for Center for Cognition, Communication, and Culture, hosted by Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, poster presentation: Company, Troy, NY
2011 Citywide Graphic Arts Competition, hosted by NYC College of Technology, invited juror, Brooklyn, NY
2009 NURTREArt Education Outreach Program, artist talk at Charles O. Dewey Middle School 136, Brooklyn, NY
2009 SmartSpaces Salon, artist talk, New York, NY
2008 Brooklyn College, Performance and Interactive Media Arts, artist talk, Brooklyn, NY
TEACHING
2018-now Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Technology, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY
2014-2018 Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY), Emerging Media Technology and Entertainment Technology, Brooklyn, NY
2016-2018 Adjunct Instructor, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, Integrated Digital Media (IDM), Brooklyn, NY
2015-2018 Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Department of Digital Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Visiting Artist / Lecturer, University of Tennessee, 4D: Time-Based Arts, Knoxville, TN
2011-2013 Studio Instructor/Graduate Assistantship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Art, Troy, NY
2010-2011 Adjunct Lecturer, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY), Department of Communication Design, Brooklyn, NY
2009-2011 Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Department of Art and Design Education, Brooklyn, NY
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
High, Kathy, “Ways In?: Processing Messages Received,” PUBLIC Journal: The Welter of Being: Interspecies Communication and the Expanded Mind, eds. Meredith Tromble and Patricia Olynyk, peer reviewed article, publication date August 2019
High, Kathy with Sadie Starnes, ”Gut Love: a Conversation about Poop,” The Brooklyn Rail: Cultural Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture, December 2017
“Straight Talk with Kathy High,” Featured interview with editor Julia Butaine, SciArt Magazine, April 2017
“Video Premiere: Netherlands- "Thumper,” New Noise Magazine, October 18, 2016
Ellen Pearlman, “Interview with Allison Berkoy,” CreativeTechWeek.nyc, February 11, 2016
Brandon Shulleeta, “InLight at VMFA draws thousands, quiet protests,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 13, 2015
“Gallery Responds to RVA’s Need for More Light,” Richmond Family Magazine, November 5, 2015
Alix Bryan, “InLight Richmond aims for two nights at the VMFA,” WTVR.com, CBS News, October 21, 2015
Barbara Rosenthal, "Pleasant Company Excepted: Allison Berkoy's Installation at Harvestworks," Ragazine, August 2014
Artiholics New York Armory Week Art Fair Travel Guide 2014,” Artiholics.com, March 6, 2014
“Torino-New York. E l’arte rompe i confine,” Stile Arte, October 14, 2013
"Untitled Apocalypse," Metroland, February 21, 2013
Mike Lisi, "'Untitled Apocalypse' offers immersive installation at EMPAC," Times Union, February 20, 2013
Christina Laurel, "'Brooklyn Bound' sneaks onto Rochester's art scene," Artkestry.com, April 17, 2012
Jeremiah Moss, “A Day in Culture: Jeremiah Moss, Blogger and Writer,” Paris Review Daily, January 12, 2012
“The Basement Video Installation by Allison Berkoy,” New York Art Seen, October 26, 2011.
“Opening for round 1 at Lambert Fine Arts,” ArteFuse, October 24, 2011
“Lumen 2011,” WelcomeToCompany.com, June 27, 2011
Glen Warchol, “Ephraim Shows Off Edgy Contemporary Art,” The Salt Lake Tribune, March 4, 2011
“Fountain Art Fair 2011,” This Week in New York, February 24, 2011
“Camera Vivant,” Salt Lake City Weekly, February 23, 2011
Kyle Gilkeson, “Video Premiere: Epstein's ‘Jelly Fish’ & ‘Foam on Top,’” Alarm Magazine, February 1, 2011
“DUMBO Arts Festival,” This Week in New York, September 24, 2010
“X and O Interview Video Artist Allison Berkoy,” X & O, June 7, 2010
Erik Sanner, “New Media at the 2010 NYC Art Fairs,” The Huffington Post, March 20, 2010
“Fountain Art Fair,” Art Sucks, March 6, 2010
“Armory Arts Week: Fountain Art Fair,” This Week in New York, March 4, 2010
Vanessa Fioravante, “Unique ‘Art Happening’ to Aid Lotus House Women’s Shelter,” Biscayne Bay Tribune, Sept 21, 2009
“Art Miami 2009 Inspires ‘Hope is in the Art’ by Charity Donations,” Art Knowedge News. August 2, 2009
Jessica Gallucci, “The Way an Art Fair Should Be,” The Economist, March 2009
“Fountain Art Fair,” This Week in New York, March 4, 2009
Don Porcella, “Fountain Art Fair,” Art Comments, December 9, 2009
“Art Enthusiasts Throng DUMBO, Expecting- and Getting – the Unexpected,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 29, 2008