ARTIST BIO

Breanna Bercegeay is an artist that grew up in the small town of Gonzales, Louisiana where tradition, community and good food runs deep. Bercegeay completed her Bachelors Degree in Visual art + Design with a Concentration in Sculpture from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. She received a Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art with a concentration in sculpture from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.  She currently teaches K12 Art at a charter school in Baton Rouge and returned to Southeastern as adjunct faculty for the sculpture department.

Bercegeay highlights the strength and resilience found in the people of Southern Louisiana. Her attachment to the landscape, industry, textures, culture and community of that place shape her identity and fuel her creative practices. She uses found materials and driftwood sourced fro Louisiana, as well as sound, smell, touch, and taste to create formal sculptures and immersive experiences for the viewer. The result is a space where humankind and land coincide. Food for the soul and space for the mind.

In her personal life, Bercegeay lives for launching her boat into the Amite river and taking a ride on Sundays. Her favorite sounds are listening to the sway of the bald cypress trees, chirping crickets and the wake sloshing against the dock from passing boats. However, this only happens if her fiancé and two large dogs aren’t begging to stay inside. She enjoys cooking and eating cajun food, but only if someone else does the dishes. If she could, she would vow to never do laundry again. Those overalls, though, they never seem to to stay clean.