Jo Berry

Jo Berry is painter based in Cardiff, Wales, UK. She studied Fine Art (painting) at Manchester Metropolitan University.

In 2024 she won the Irving Open in Oxford, UK and is working towards a solo show at the Irving Gallery in 2026.

She is regularly selected for Y Lle Celf, the visual arts exhibition at the National Eisteddfod for Wales, and at the 2024 Eisteddfod in Pontypridd, she won the Contemporary Arts Society for Wales purchase prize, with her painting now in their collection.

In 2025 and 2024 she was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize.

In 2018 she exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London as part of ‘Into a Light’ curated by Lle Gallery, Cardiff and Paper Gallery, Manchester.

She exhibited in the John Moores Painting prize in 2014, in 2022 she was longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize.

Recent group shows:

• STAGE II, Bay Art, Cardiff. September 2025 • Jackson’s Art Prize Shortlist 2025, Bankside Gallery London • Irving Gallery Open, Oxford (Prizewinner) 2024 • Goth in a Landscape, Aberystwyth University Art Gallery 2024 • The Omnipotence of Dream, Salford Museum and Art Gallery 2024-25 • Jackson’s Art Prize Shortlist 2024, Bankside Gallery London • Lle Celf National Eisteddfod for Wales 2024 Pontypridd • STAGE / Pebble Shoe, Kingsgate Projects London 2023 • Show 2 Paintings Made Recently in Wales, Bay Art, Cardiff 2022 • BINARY II, Terrace Gallery, London 2022 • Otherworlds, MADE, Cardiff. 2022