Artist Statement
Danielle Mariz Berger is a New York-based Graphic Designer and Artist. Through print and digital mediums, she makes work that examines the nexus between Christianity and colonialism in America, through a female, Filipino-American lens. She investigates the relationship between typography, image, and the written word. Her work exists as both a hallelujah and a lamentation— a celebration of personal identity and belonging, and a mourning for how colonialism has isolated us from practices of love. Danielle uses printed ephemera, such as Risograph posters, postcards, and books, to explore themes of family and religion in relation to Filipino-American identity. In her work, Danielle asks, “how can graphic design be used to cross-examine the informants of cultural and racial identity in America, through the lens of religion and gender? How can graphic design and printmaking be used to initiate critical dialogue, while allowing us to challenge our own internalized colonialism?”
Parsons School of Design, BFA Communication Design
2019–2023
Typography Summer School New York
2024
Awards
ARTNOIR x Sotheby’s Jar of Love Fund
2024
Henry Wolff Communication Design Scholarship
2019–2023
Select Work Experience
Sundae School
Junior Graphic Designer
Feb. 2024–present
The Institute of Black Imagination.
Freelance Graphic Designer
Mar.–Apr. 2023
Lang CESJ at The New School
Freelance Website Designer
Jul.–Sept. 2023
Exhibitions
Parsons Offset Art Book Fair
Parsons School of Design, New York
2024
From When I Looked Again for the First Time
Lubov Gallery, New York
2022
Press/Features
Fad Magazine
2024
Talks
Parsons CD Senior Thesis Guest Panel
2023
Are.na