Sondra Perry is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, computer-based media, installation, and performance.
19 Facts About Sondra Perry
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Sondra Perry explores the duality of intelligence and seductiveness in the contexts of black family heritage, black history, and black femininity.
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For Sondra Perry, blackness is a technology which creates fissures in systems of surveillance and control and thus creates inefficiency as an opportunity for resistance.
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Sondra Perry received a BFA from Alfred University in 2012, and an MFA from Columbia University in 2015.
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Sondra Perry has been an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University School of the Arts as of 2019, where she has taught Advanced Video to both graduate and undergraduate students.
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Sondra Perry has had multiple solo exhibitions, including at The Kitchen, for her work "Resident Evil", and at the Institute for New Connotative Action.
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Sondra Perry's work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1 The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and online at Rhizome.
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From January to May 2017, Sondra Perry had a solo exhibition, flesh out, at Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo, New York.
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Sondra Perry was awarded a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and the 2017 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize, which includes a solo show at the Seattle Art Museum and a $10,000 stipend.
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Sondra Perry has received the Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship and a scholarship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, an artists residency in Maine.
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Sondra Perry is the first recipient of MOCA Cleveland's Toby's Prize, valued at $50,000.
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In 2018 Sondra Perry won the $28,000 Nam June Paik Award given by the Kunststiftung NRW arts foundation to honor artists working in media art.
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Sondra Perry developed this piece as a narrative about her family, and includes family memories that are edited between song clips and computer effects.
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The video begins with an avatar of Sondra Perry set against a chroma blue backdrop, describing the details and components of the machine; the exercise bike is designed in a way that forces the sitter to contort their body unnaturally, making it difficult and exhausting to actually cycle.
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Sondra Perry utilizes AI in Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation to illustrate how race and body politics are woefully mechanized.
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Later on, Sondra Perry enters her family home with Eartha Kitt singing "I Want to Be Evil" on the television.
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In 2017 Sondra Perry won the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize, for which she presented her solo exhibition Eclogue For Inhabitability at the Seattle Art Museum.
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Sondra Perry digitally manipulates The Slave Ship to replicate ripples of skin, reclaiming black history from a forgetful past.
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In 2019, Sondra Perry exhibited A Terrible Thing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.