Sondra Perry
| Sondra Perry | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sondra Perry 1986 (age 38–39) Perth Amboy, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | BFA , Alfred University, 2012 MFA, Columbia University School of Art, 2015 |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | video, performance and installation art |
| 🌐 Website | http://www.sondraperry.com/ |
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Sondra Perry (born 1986) is a Texas based [1] artist known for her work using performance and video installation mediums.[2] Sondra Perry has gained recent notoriety for her art, which address and explores the Black experience surrounding identity, history both personal and impersonal with technology.[1]
Biography[edit]
Sondra Perry was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 1986. Perry earned her BFA from Alfred University in 2012 and MFA from Columbia University in 2015. Currently, Perry resides in Houston, Texas where she works at CORE Museum of Fine Arts as an artist in residence.[1]
Art[edit]
Sondra Perry works with multiple mediums combining technology, performance, video and sculpture. Her most notable work titled Resident Evil garnished the attention of the art word with its complex subject matter of Black Identity and the intersection of White culture[3]. Perry has held several residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, Ox-bow, and the Experimental Television Center.[1] In 2017 , Perry was awarded the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize , an award given to emerging Black artists by Seattle Art Museum in Seattle , Washington.[4]
Currently , Perry is working on a project alongside her brother. Her next project is based on her brother's experience as a collegiate athlete at Georgia State University and his NCAA lawsuit . The likeness of her brother and player stats was used to create a character in an NCAA video game. The purpose of this piece will be to explore the exploitation of student athletes and defining the idea of achieving what "likeness" through visual mediums mean.[5]
Resident Evil[edit]
Resident Evil is a multimedia exhibition by Sondra Perry that made its debut in 2016 at The Kitchen in New York , New York. This work discusses the issue of surveillance and systemic racialized violence within the Black experience and Black History in America. This concept was explored by highlighting the effects of White culture and the projection of evil that has become associated with Blackness and Black Identity .[3]
The inspiration for Perry's exhibit references the popular video game and movie franchise by the same name. Resident Evil is of the sci-fi horror genre in which humans war with mutant beings. The exhibition utilizes a blue screen that enables Perry to incorporate her personal avatar, video , and other life-like bodies as projected forms. Perry incorporates real footage from police body cameras that is juxtaposed by fictitious video game footage, as well as displaying the names of deceased victims of police brutality as frozen jpg file names. Perry also addresses the 2017 United States Presidential Election and the 45th President , Donald Trump.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Sondra Perry: flesh out". Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. 2017-01-09. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ↑ "Sondra Perry - UC Davis Arts". arts.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Kitchen: Sondra Perry: Resident Evil". thekitchen.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ↑ "Seattle Art Museum Gives the Emerging Black Artist Award to Sondra Perry". The Stranger. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ↑ "'Abstraction Isn't Neutral': Sondra Perry on the NCAA, Subjecthood, and Her Upcoming Projects | ARTnews". www.artnews.com. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ↑ Krasinski, Jennifer (2016-11-30). "Sondra Perry Explores the Intersection of Technology and Black History in America". Village Voice. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
Further reading[edit]
- Interview with Sondra Perry , Art News
- Exhibition Review , at Temporary Art Review
- Exhibition Review , Art in America Magazine
- Press Release , New York Times
- Perry, Sondra. "Artist Statement". Retrieved 2017-03-31.
External links[edit]
Category:Living people
Category:1986 births
Category:African-American artists
Category: Alfred University alumni
Category:Columbia University alumni
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