Rolland Berry is an American contemporary artist and award-winning professor of modern art who has built his identity through art, fashion, design, and teaching. Known for his unique color palette and figurative work, he has been exploring color and mixed media in urban environments and his Los Angeles studio since the late 1990s. His signature style features silk screening, complex layering, and a powerful range of colors. He paints with brushes, mops, inks, spray cans, and oils to achieve intricate, emotionally driven palettes.
Rolland studied at Pasadena ArtCenter College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design through fine art scholarships. While attending art school, he found the streets more interesting than academics. His work bridges the gap between fine art, pop art, and graffiti. As a multimedia artist, Rolland jumps from large freehand murals and pop icon portraits to small works on paper and wood that often combine silk screening, spray painting, and hand painting.
Whether inspired by history, color, spirituality, modern culture, or street culture, Rolland creates art that expresses his unique views of fine art and street art as one and the same. He spends his days in his studio working and his nights wheat-pasting and creating art for the streets.