Culture Keeper Bio
Jon Bernson is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning media artist whose interdisciplinary work spans film, theater, audio-visual art, and music. His shape-shifting projects push the boundaries of narrative storytelling, often exploring existential themes with a slow-burn, tragicomic style. Based in San Francisco and working from his Oakland studio, he has held residencies at the de Young Museum, Playwrights Foundation, The Space Program, and The Imaginists. Bernson has been supported by the Rainin Foundation and the Venturous Theater Fund, with work presented at Minnesota Street Project, Catharine Clark Gallery, Stanford University, Sonos Studio, and at festivals and venues internationally. He is the author of seven plays, including When Lighting the Voids, written for StoryWorks Theater and later adapted into a nationally broadcast radio play on Reveal. As a musician, Bernson has released more than twenty albums, including music featured in David Fincher’s The Social Network. He also composed, scored, and sound designed The New Yorker’s Reeducated, which earned him both an Emmy and a Peabody Award. His installation Beautification Machine, created with Andy Diaz Hope, was acquired by the Nevada Museum of Art for its permanent collection.
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