fifi rae
©2024





I love Bikini Kill, pins, and full-circle moments. My mom gave me this Bikini Kill pin long before I knew who they were. I discovered their music through researching female punk groups for my high school senior thesis in 2021. In the summer of 2024 going into my senior year of college, I saw Bikini Kill perform live at The Warfield in San Francisco.









Fifi Rae, officially known as Juliette Rae Berman, is a believer in ghosts and a lover of all things blue. She is a student at UC Berkeley pursuing a BA in Art Practice with a minor in Art History. She was born in Nanjing, China, and grew up in Los Angeles, CA, but prefers the Bay Area. She investigates themes of multicultural identity, memory, family archives, and belonging in her work. While her primary medium is drawing, she experiments with and wants to explore further printmaking, ceramics, book art, photography, video, and multi-disciplinary installation. One day, she will blow glass, start a band as the drummer, and collage on every chair known to man. She loves collecting trinkets, orchids, physical media for music (mostly CDs), metro cards/tickets from different cities, photographs from strangers’ pasts, shells, and anything with polka dots and stripes.



Things she likes to do for fun but takes very seriously:

- Listen to music and add to her playlist about the moon
- Go on aimless jaunts in walkable cities

- Consume mandarins and hot chocolate
- Take photos of everything and everyone
- Make and distribute zines and alternative books
- Discuss and analyze dreams

- Write letters, cards, and silly haikus
- Record time lapses
- Watch old home videos
- Blast music and dance!

Current playlist: “would you like to share a pot of oolong tea?”
Current book: Just Kids by Patti Smith
Current show: Severance by Dan Erickson
Current obsession: “glitches,” graffiti, or my hummingbird tattoo


If you would like to learn more about my work or ask any questions, please reach out!