Naomi Berkery is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice connects fine art, graffiti, and portraiture. Centered on feminine experience, her work examines autonomy, vulnerability, resilience, and the tensions between urban environments and spiritual life. Her portraits operate as emotional landscapes, giving form to anxiety, memory, desire, grief, and transformation through color, texture, and mark-making. Working intuitively, Naomi combines paint, collage, spray paint, graphite, oil pastel, and acrylic marker with archived papers, stickers, manuscripts, book pages, magazine clippings, and weathered fragments. Each composition develops through material response, allowing symbolic elements, botanical forms, and emotional states to emerge through successive layers.

Naomi holds an MFA in Art and Design Education and Special Education, with a concentration in Art Therapy, from Pratt Institute. She lived and worked in New York City for more than two decades, exhibiting throughout the five boroughs and the Tri-State Area. Since 2003, she has taught visual art to neurodivergent students in New York City. As a certified art therapist and department head, she approaches artmaking and education as connected practices supporting healing, identity formation, and agency. Naomi currently works from her studios at Safe Harbors of the Hudson and Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, New York.