Sondra Perry was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, raised in New Jersey and North Texas, and has lived and worked in Newark, New Jersey since 2019. She received her MFA from Columbia University, New York, and her BFA from Alfred University, Alfred, New York, in 2015 and 2012, respectively.
In 2015, Perry’s work appeared in the fourth iteration of the Greater New York exhibition at MoMA/PS1. Other exhibitions include Resident Evil at The Kitchen, New York, Typhoon Coming On at Serpentine Galleries, London; Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at The New Museum, New York; and Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 2015. The artist's work has been screened at venues such as MOCA in Los Angeles; Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California; Les Voutes, Paris; Light Industry, New York; Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca Cinemas, New York; Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Shenyang; and LOOP Barcelona Media Arts Festival. Perry has participated in residencies at CORE at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, Ox-bow, and the Experimental Television Center.
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Sondra Perry will unpack the relationship between industrial metal minerals and geological time, slavery, and industrialised labour in the United States and beyond. Particularly focused on mining processes, Perry considers how this is related to racialised bodies as well as the afterlife of structural violence and trauma. Ultimately, she questions how these unseen dynamics are experienced, visualised, and articulated. Recently, in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and racial violence, her project has adopted new facettes, radically questioning the role of art and its capacity for causing change.
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