Adraint Khadafhi Bereal Contact

Adraint Khadafhi Bereal is a New York based artist and creative director.

With a background in photography and design, Bereal has photographed editorials with various publications, directed global brand campaigns and rebrands, published texts and exhibited work with galleries internationally.

Bereal's work untangles the nuances of American culture by interrogating and provoking truth to surface. Living between the digital and physical, Bereal's practice urges a shared language of memory-making.

Selected Clients

Cécred, Arc'Teryx, Spelman College, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Bottega Veneta, Sula Labs, Highsnobiety, Abercrombie & Fitch, Vans, DoBeDo Projects, Walmart, Chobani, Etsy, Kate Spade, One & Only Resorts, Nike Jordan

ADRAINT KHADAFHI BEREAL STUDIO

For all studio and commercial inquiries
please email studio@adraint.com

Studio Manager: Kat Herriman
kat.herriman@gmail.com

UPCOMING:

2026 (Solo Exhibition)
The University of Texas at Austin
Visual Arts Center
October, 2026

Exhibitions

2026 (Solo Exhibition)
The University of Texas at Austin
Visual Arts Center
October, 2026

2025 (Group Exhibition)
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift
National Portrait Gallery - London
February 20 - May 18 2025

2024 (Solo Exhibition)
A Different Regard for Life - Nina Johnson Gallery
September 12, 2024

2025 (Group Exhibition)
Blackland Prairies - Visual Arts Center UT Austin
January 24 - March 8, 2025

2020 (Digital Group Exhibition)
George Washington Carver Museum
Austin, TX, - May 2020

Lectures/Talks

Who's gonna take care of me? The Black Collegiate Experience: A conversation about DEI in higher education with activist DeRay McKesson
SXSW March 11, 2024

The Black Yearbook with Adraint Bereal in conversation with George McCalman
San Francisco Museum of African Diaspora February 28, 2024

Yale University Fireside Chat with Silliman College
February 5, 2024

Creator Labs In Conversation: The Creativity of Tomorrow
Moderated by Nicole Acheampong and Aperture's Brendan Embser in conversation with Creator Labs Photo Fund inaugural recipients Adraint Bereal, Daveed Baptiste and Sydney Mieko King.
April 5, 2023

Voice of an Artist - Wheaton College Massachusetts
April 29, 2021

Creative Mornings Austin - Radical Series
November 13, 2020

George Washington Carver Museum Foto ATX Talks: Afritina Coker, Adraint Bereal, and Bria Lauren. Curated by Hakeem Adewumi
August 25, 2020

Awards

  • Lucie Photo Book Awards Shortlist - 2020
  • Aperture Google SN37 Portfolio Prize - 2021
  • Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist - 2022

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Fine Arts - School of Design and Creative Technologies

Published Works

Daydreaming
MIT Critical Journal
Amnesia, 2025, Sculpture
Self-portrait, 2025, Photograph
Dreaming of Morrison, 2025, Essay

What a Doll Wants Zine
BE Publishing | Pages: 52 (5.5 x 8.5) | Soft Cover
July 2025

The Black Yearbook [Portraits and Stories]
Published by Penguin Random House | Pages: 224 (8x10) | Hardcover
January 16, 2024

The Black Yearbook
Self Published | Pages: 360 (11.75 x 16) | Soft Cover
August 2020

1.7
Self Published | Pages: 26 (6.125 x 7.875) | Soft Cover
May 2019

Selected Bibliography

2025 - MIT Critical Journal | Daydreaming
Words by Adraint Bereal

2024 - DoBeDo | We Don’t Need a Black Avedon
Words by Adraint Bereal

2024 - ItsNiceThat | "It's imperative that we be the architects of our narrative": Adraint Khadafhi Bereal on documenting Black college life
Words by Yaya Azariah Clarke

2024 - PRINT Mag | Adraint Bereal's Lens Captures the Essence of Black College Life
Words by Amelia Nash

2024 - Atmos | Inside The Black Yearbook
Words by Adraint Bereal

2023 - Cultured Magazine | Artist Adraint Khadafhi Bereal Is Tired of 'Black Joy.' He Wants to Know What Comes After Rage
Words by Kat Herriman

2023 - Aperture Magazine | A Celebratory Chronicle of Black College Life
Words by Casey Gerald

2022 - Cultured Magazine | Photographers Wolfgang Tillmans and Adraint Khadafhi Bereal Met on Instagram, Fear Its Influence
Words by Kat Herriman

2022 - The New York Times | Heirlooms, Redefined
Words by Tiya Miles and Michelle May-Curry

2021 - PRINT Mag | The Black Yearbook: Universities and the Black Experience
Words by Callie Budrick

2021 - VICE News | The National Battle of the Bands Is a Celebration of Black College Life
Words by Adraint Bereal

2020 - The New York Times | Black at U.T., and Beyond
Words by Patrice Peck

2020 - The Atlantic | THE BLACK YEARBOOK
Words by Adam Harris

2020 - Texas Monthly | At UT and A&M, Visionary Takes on Yearbooks Celebrate the Beauty of Blackness
Words by Kiana Fitzgerald

2020 - Texas Observer | EYE ON TEXAS: THE BLACK YEARBOOK
Words by Adraint Bereal

2020 - Dazed Digital | Seven photographers answer the question: what's your future legacy?
Words by Dazed Digital

2019 - The Daily Texan | Students share underrepresented, uncensored narratives and perspectives in 'Black Yearbook'
Words by Trinady Joslin

Library Collections

Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY.
Thomas J. Watson Central Research Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University, New York, NY.
Fordham University, Bronx, NY.
Harry A Sprague Library, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ.
Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT.
Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia, PA.
Charles P. Stevenson Library, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY.
Thomas P. O'Neill Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
Harvard Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries Cambridge, MA.
Howard University, Washington, DC.
Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Melvin Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
Virginia Beach Public Library System, Virginia Beach, VA.
Lyman Beecher Brooks Library, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA.
Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC.
Ohio University Libraries, Athens, OH.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL.
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL.
Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA.
Iowa City Public Library, Iowa City, IA.
Lee County Library System, Lehigh Acres, FL.
Oklahoma State University - Institute of Technology, Okmulgee, OK.
Southern Methodist University Libraries, Dallas, TX.
University of North Texas Library, Denton, TX.
Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX.
University of Texas Libraries, Austin, TX.
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA.
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
UC Berkeley Libraries, Berkeley, CA.
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

For full list see World Cat: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AAdraint+Bereal&offset=1