Location: United States
About the artist:
Gulay Berryman received her art training at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Versailles, France, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy and the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, France.
She has exhibited in France, Iceland, Senegal, Mauritius, Italy, Oman, Belgium, Switzerland, and the United States. These included exhibitions at the American Cultural Center in Reykjavik; as the official U.S. Participant to the 1992 Int’l Exhibition for Human Rights, Goree Island, Senegal; and at the Salon des Independents, Paris.
She twice won the American Embassy Paris Art Show (2001-02).
In 2005, she was invited to participate in the prestigious biennial in Florence, Italy which gathers between 800-900 artists selected from around the world..
Gulay was a finalist in the SEETAL 2006 Art Competition by Kunst-Forum-Int’l in Switzerland. Her paintings were chosen in 2008 and 2009 for the poster of Williamsburg’s ‘An Occasion for the Arts.’ Gulay participated in the U.S. Biennial Artist’s Exhibition at the Broadway Gallery, New York in 2010. Her artwork was featured in the 2011 and 2013 editions of “International Contemporary Artists”.
She served as a judge for both ‘Art on the Square’ and ‘An Occasion for the Arts’ in 2013 and as a juror in 2014 for ‘Art at the River’ in Yorktown.
From 2015-18, Gulay was the owner/director of the Williamsburg Art Gallery located on Merchants Square in historic downtown Williamsburg. In 2017, this gallery was nominated Best in Virginia and one of the 25 Best Art Galleries & Museums in America by American Art Awards (www.AmericanArtAwards.com). She continues to operate Williamsburg Art Gallery as an online gallery (www.wmbgartgallery.com) In 2017, she was juried into the Art Renewal Center (ARC) as a Living Artist © and in 2018, she joined the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA).
Gulay Berryman Art Inc.
P.O. Box 2024 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187
G U L A Y B E R R Y M A N
About the artist
Gulay Berryman received her art training at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Versailles, France, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan and the Ecole du Louvre in Paris.
She has exhibited in France, Iceland, Senegal, Mauritius, Italy, Oman, Belgium, Switzerland, and the United States. These included exhibitions at the American Cultural Center in Reykjavik; the Museum of African Art in Dakar, Senegal; as the official U.S. Participant to the 1992 International Exhibition for Human Rights held at the Slave House on Goree Island, Senegal; the 1992 Dakar Biennale des Arts; the Max Boulle Gallery, Mauritius; and the Salon des Independents, Paris.
In 1996, Gulay received a Winsor&Newton Award in Williamsburg, Virginia. She twice won the American Embassy Paris Art Show (2001-02). One of Gulay’s works won the Best of Virginia award in the 2005 competition sponsored by Kennedy Promotions. In December 2005, she was invited to participate in the Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea di Firenze, a prestigious international art exhibition in Florence, Italy, which gathers between 800-900 artists selected from around the world to display their work. Gulay exhibited at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York City in December 2006.
Gulay was a finalist in the SEETAL 2006 Art Competition organized by Kunst-Forum-International Meisterschwanden, Switzerland. She held a solo exhibition at the Williamsburg Lodge in September 2006 and at the Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center in 2007. In January 2008, Gulay was selected as the inaugural artist for the opening of the Greater Williamsburg Chamber & Tourism Alliance lobby art gallery. In October 2008, she was selected as the cover artist for the 25th Anniversary Concert program for the Williamsburg Symphonia. In both 2008 and 2009, one of Gulay’s paintings was chosen as the artwork for the official poster of An Occasion for the Arts, Colonial Williamsburg’s annual art festival. Her artwork was selected by The Williamsburg Community Foundation to grace the cover of the 2009 edition of “Exclusively.” Gulay participated in the U.S. Biennial Artist’s Exhibition at the Broadway Gallery in New York in September 2010. Her artwork was featured in the May 2011 edition of “International Contemporary Artists. “
She currently has paintings on display at The Gallery on Merchants Square and at the New Town Art Gallery, Main St., New Town in Williamsburg, Virginia.
A file on Gulay’s work has been opened at the U.S. National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington,D.C.
Painting Commissions – Fine Art Prints – Notecards
Web Site: www.gulayberryman.com E-mail: gulayart@yahoo.com
Tel: (757) 565-0954 P.O. Box 2024 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187
“ Sunday Afternoon at 'Les Deux Magots'”
“ L'Hostellerie du Chevalier de Boufflers”
“ A Street Scene from Goree (No. 3)”
“ Baobabs at Sunset”
“ Brandon, Vermont”
“ View Across Lake Orta to Isola San Giulio”
“ 15, rue Raynouard, Paris”
“ Asleep”
“ Man with Back Turned”
“ Doorway with Roses”
“ Geraniums in a Sconce”
“ Bessastadir in the Spring”
“ Difficult Run, Great Falls, VA”
“ Crim Dell Bridge, College of William & Mary”
“ The Williamsburg Inn at Christmas”
“ Carnevale, Final Act”
“ Moonlit Reverie”
“ Esja”
“ Goreme in Cappadocia”
“ Villa del Balbianello, Lake Como”
