Atticus Jay Berry

Atticus Jay Berry is a queer disabled visual artist currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Atticus has dedicated the past 9 years to creating fine art using a wide range of mediums including print and photography, needlework, and ceramics. Stinehour Editions published their first photography book, Objective Truths, in 2020. They earned their Bachelor of Science in Photography as well as a Minor in Psychology and a Creative Writing Certificate from Drexel University and hold an MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies from the University of Leicester. Their dissertation, Linking art collections, disability representation, and social change – an exploration of potential, was published in 2021.

Atticus is fiercely passionate about increasing accessibility in arts and culture, and is dedicated to disability activism. Their creative work focuses on exploring the transformative qualities of both the human perspective and the mediums in which they work; they attempt to shift viewers’ attention towards subjects that appear to be overlooked in the everyday or only appear on the fringes of society. Committed to contributing to societal change, Atticus dreams of working to increase representation of disenfranchised identities within art institutions in a collections management position.