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Biography
 Berette was born in Freetown Sierra Leone, West Africa, raised in Jamaica and the UK and now resides in New York City. Her imagery is heavily influenced by her multicultural background, and also her training and experience as a performer and theater technician.
She has shown works in New York, NY at: Art Gotham, Artists Space, Bank Street, HeadQuarters Gallery, Niagara with the Antagonist Movement, and 25CPW Gallery with The Vanderbilt Republic; in Hartford, CT at Real Art Ways; in Denver, CO with ILLITERATE Media; in Nürnberg, GERMANY with the NORD Galerie Haus; and in Kingston, JAMAICA at the KOTE Arts Festival and the National Gallery of Jamaica.
She won the Creative Arts award from AFP for an interdisciplinary piece, SPLIT, which was presented at 320 Studios in 2008. She won the Claro Viewers Vote Award announced on SMILE JAMAICA on TVJ, August, 2010, and through closed jury she received awards from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission and the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2010, 2011, and 2012 for her work. She recently received 2nd place jury award from the Camera Club of New York for her family portraiture series Neue Rootz
Interdisciplinary collaborative projects and video works with other artists have also been presented at PROJECT ONE in San Francisco, The Duke on 42nd Street, Juilliard Theater, Triskelion Arts, and JUDSON Church in Washington Square, New York.
*Berette Macaulay also works under the name SeBiArt™ - a visual arts company based in New York, producing photographic and interdisciplinary works. She still occasionally works as a performer in stage and film productions, and as a model in other photographer's projects.
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