Berrak Ergul Lajoie

BERLA (Berrak Ergul Lajoie) is a painter artist and photographer based in Montreal, Canada. She was born and grew up in Turkey, studied architecture and graduated from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture. She spend several years working as an architect in different countries until she moved to Montreal.
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Art has always been her passion and she always seeks certain ways to express this passion ever since she was a child. During her professional years, she found a path in architecture that brought her closer to art, however painting was one of her favorite tools to reflect her inner world. She started oil painting when she was 22 years old. Since 2017, she has been working with acrylic medium, sometimes by mixing it with paper, textile, metal or some other materials.
She discovered her interest on photography, when she was a student in faculty of architecture. She bought her first camera and enrolled to a photography course at her school. First, she started to take architectural photographs and then she captured many traveling photographs through the years. In 2014, she joined to “National Geographic Yourshot” and some of her photographs were published on their website in 2015 and 2016. She believes that photog...

Istanbul Technical University, Bsc. Architecture.

November 2023 Showcase with Rawartists-Canada, Mccormack Warehouse, Toronto

December 2022-April 2022 Painting Exhibition at Brasserie Montreal by GALLEA

November 2022 Showcase with Rawartists-Canada  Theatre Paradoxe, Montreal

February 2022 - July 2022
Painting Exhibition at Arruda Teixeira Law Firm by GALLEA

February 2020- April 2020
Painting Exhibition at Le Hang Art Gallery

November 2014
The Food: Our Global Kitchen Photograph Exhibition at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC.