daniella ungo berrío
                                        panamá | chicago


       
     work

                                           memorias de desintegración
                                                                    handmade cinema
                    cassiopeia

                                            disintegration photos
                                                       suspended refuge
                 wet plate
                                        holga
                       untitled (a cure for miasma)

                                       pilsen
                                                       pinhole camera           


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BIOGRAPHY

Daniella Ungo Berrío (Panamá, 2002) es artista transdisciplinaria, académica y acumuladora textual. Se formó en Estudios Visuales y Crîticos  con un enfoque en fotografía en The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Durante su tiempo en Chicago, publicó y exhibió dos libros fotográficos titulados “Reconocimiento de Patrones” y “Memorias de Desintegración”, y presentó su tésis final “Paschōgraphia or How To Read Pain” en el Simposio de Estudios Visuales y Críticos de Pregrado 2025: “Fine Young Cannibals”.



Su tesis presenta  la recursión computacional como modelo alternativo para entender las condiciones autoimmunes. Sus temas de interés incluyen:
el psicoanálisis lacaniano, la teoría crip, el dolor como fenómeno cultural, los estudios latinoamericanos y el cine experimental. 


Daniella nunca ha leido un libro en el que no se haya proyectado.











CONTACT



daniellaungo5@gmail.com
@oddslowangle 



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE



 Collections Generalist, Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL



















Gallery Assistant, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
















Photography Lab Monitor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

















Arcnhive and Distribution Intern, Video Data Bank, Chicago, IL
















 Student Peer Mentor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 















Artist Residency Co-Coordinator, Carte Blanche Artist Residency 02, Casasola NonConventional Art & Design, Panamá City, Panamá





AWARDS & GRANTS

























2024

Jim Zanzi Scholarship, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI




2023

Frederick K. Rabel Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


Dean’s List Nominee for Outstanding Sophomores, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


Leroy Neiman Foundation Scholarship, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI


Scholars Program Study Trip Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL




2020

Scholars Program Member, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


Presidential Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL









 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


2025

Foaming at the Mouth, Color Club, Chicago, IL

Archive as Action, Archive as Discourse, NU Dittmar Memorial                     Gallery x SAIC Site Galleries, Chicago, IL

280 Solo Photo Showcase, SAIC, Chicago, IL


2024
Fall Undergraduate Exhibition,  SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

280 Solo Photo Showcase, SAIC, Chicago, IL












Wandering Spirits, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI





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2023

¿Estamos…? (We are…?), Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL

Biophilia: Visions and Explorations of Ecoculture, Union Street                      Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL





2022

Expo Gráfica Marginal Mala Tinta, Mala Sombra, Panamá City,                 Panamá























Magnificently Monochrome, Union Street Gallery, Chicago                             Heights, IL

ArtBash, SAIC Department of Contemporary Practices, Chicago,                IL

EDUCATION













2025 
BA with Distinction, Visual and Critical Studies, 
School of the Art Institute of Chicago




PUBLICATIONS



2025
Paschōgraphia, or, How to Read Pain, Undergraduate Thesis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago



2024

Reconocimiento de Patrones, Photobook

Memorias de Desintegración, Photobook



2023 
Suspended Refuge, Poetry & Photography Book

ARTIST TALKS & LECTURES




2025 

Reading, [UNTITLED] or; “The fear of incomprehensibility links madness and writing”, CCE Casa del Soldado, Panamá City, Panamá




Symposium, Fine Young Cannibals, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL





2023 

Lecture, Holy Wounds, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italia