Tarik Berber was born on July 12, 1980, in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1991, he moved with his family to Bolzano, where he attended Torricelli Scientific High School. After graduating, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 2004, he became the youngest artist invited to exhibit at the inauguration of MACI (Museum of Contemporary Art of Isernia). That same year, he participated in the Second Biennial InTranSito at the National Museum Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, the International Art Exhibition G.B. Salvi - Aperture - in Sassoferrato, curated by Mauro Corradini, and the Second International Art Exhibition City of Bozzolo, Don Primo Mazzolari, where he won the first purchase prize. In May 2006, he held his first solo exhibition at the National Museum Villa Pisani in Stra, Venice.
From 2012 to 2015, he completed two hand-drawn video animations that attracted attention from the BBC, InsideArt, and Vimeo Staff Picks, garnering over 60,000 views. In the summer of 2015, he was invited for a series of four solo exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia: at ARMAMAXA Gallery in Maribor, City Gallery in Bihać, National Gallery of Sarajevo, and G&M Gallery in Tuzla. During this period, he donated a children's book project to the orphanage in Kulen Vakuf (BiH), which printed and distributed it. Towards the end of 2015, he began working with the prestigious Albemarle Gallery in London (Mayfair). During this time, he met Edward Lucie-Smith, a renowned British art historian and critic, who interviewed him and wrote a text about him for the exhibition catalog at Art Moor House, a skyscraper designed by the famous architect Lord Norman Foster in the City of London.
In 2016, he was a finalist for the "Ibero-American Art Award Exhibition" at the Brazilian Embassy in London. In 2017, he was invited to create an 80m² installation for Piazza dei Tre Re as part of the "Estate Fiorentina." That same year, he exhibited his solo show "TOXIC CADMIUM" at Aria Art Gallery in Florence. The same gallery showcased his works at the "CI" - Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair 2017. In 2018, he began collaborating with VSArte Gallery in Milan (Brera), and in July of the same year, he held the solo exhibition "Windsor Beauties" at Aria Art Gallery in Istanbul. In January 2020, the Maimeri Foundation hosted the retrospective "Seven Sisters," curated by Andrea Dusio in collaboration with Arte.it.
