Statement

Using personal narratives, I create installations that explore the space between public and private. Text, images, and objects act as mnemonic devices that tell my stories. My artworks form typologies of memory and are a way of assembling and activating my past. 

Drawn to the inherent materiality of objects, I incorporate photography, printmaking, and sculpture into my practice. In synthesizing these processes, I trace my fascination with memory, material culture, and the social sciences.

Inviting viewers to my narrative is akin to writing a play. I carefully consider the amount of information of am sharing and manipulate the experience through the use of mapping, scripted audio, text and non-linear patterning.  Creating collections of art objects that have relationships with one another allows stories to be revealed, assembled and digested.

b. 1974, Canada

Multi-disciplinary artist Patrick Perry endeavors to connect the spaces between dichotomies; beautiful/ugly; ordinary/extraordinary; art/craft. Creating site-specific work and installations, his art pivots between the subtlety of the interstice.

He received a Diploma in Fine Craft in the Jewelry/Metal Arts Studio at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design in 1997 and was a Sculpture / Installation major at the Ontario College of Art in 1998. In 1999 he received his Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Education from the University of New Brunswick in 2000.  In 2006 he graduated from Maine College of Art with a Master in Fine Arts and in 2019 he completed a Master of Arts in Photography at Lehman College, New York.

He has worked as an Exhibition Designer, Exhibition Coordinator, and Art College Instructor. Currently he teaches Jewelry, Sculpture, 3D Design and Darkroom Photography at Eastchester High School in Westchester, New York.  He has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions in Canada and the United States. He currently lives in New York City and runs a jewelry company mē´tria metal.

Group Exhibitions

In circulation, Empty Set, Bronx NY - forthcoming - 2021
unfit for Print, MoCA Westport, Westport, CT -2021
Cladogram, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY -2021
Lucky To Be Here, Longwood Art gallery, Bronx, NY -2021
Revelations: Sins of the flesh, UNB Arts Center, Fredericton, NB -2020
MA Thesis Exhibition, Lehman COllege, NY -2020
Mail Art, Printed Matter/St Marks, NY, NY - 2020
Infinite Archive:NYPL, Queens Public Library, LIC Branch, Queens, NY -2019
Infinite Archive:NYPL, Dongan Hills Branch, Staten Island, NY - 2019
Infinite Archive:NYPL, Cortelyou branch, Brooklyn, NY -2019
Infinite Archive:NYPL, Kingsbridge Branch,Bronx, NY -2018
Infinite Archive:NYPL, Henry Belafonte Branch, Manhattan NY -2018
locations, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY -2018
Starlight Park: Memory of movement, Bronx, NY -2018
river rising, Bronx River arts Center, Bronx, NY - 2018
Starlight Park, Hell's Gate Gallery, Bronx, NY - 2017
Infinite Archive: Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, NY - 2017
National Drawing, Print and Painting Annual, SCAA, Kingston, RI -2017
NYSATA Members Show, Anderson Chase Gallery, Goldens Bridge, NY - 2017
Photography Takes Over, Upstream Gallery, Hasting-on-Hudson, NY -2017
The Artful Scriptorium, Climate/Gallery, Long Island City, NY - 2010
Surprisingly Natural, Wave Hill, New York, NY - 2008
Bloom, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA - 2008
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME - 2006
American College Art Association Juried Art Exhibition, Boston, MA - 2006
Connexion at Ste. Croix, Gallery Connexion at Bayside, Bayside, NB - 2006
Eye Opener, Harbourfront Center, Toronto, ON - 2003
Lois Betteridge Tribute Exhibition, Haliburton School of the Arts, Haliburton, ON - 2003

Catalogues

Sharon Jordan. Infinite Archive: NYPL, Minuteman Press - 2018
McGregor, Jennifer.Surprisingly Natural: The Nature of the Bronx, Wave Hill, Lehman College, Bronx River Art Center Publication - 2008
Perry, Patrick. The Lost Ring Project, LuLu Press, USA, ISBN: 1-4116-3919-7 - 2005
Rosenfeld, Roslyn. ConneXXion at Ste-Croix, Gallery Connexion Publication - 2005
Ebendorf, Robert. 1000 Rings, Lark Books, Altamont Press, Inc - 2004
Isherwood, Barbara.  Teacher, Silversmith, Mentor: 20 Years in the Highlands with Lois Etherington Betteridge, National Library of Canada - 2002

Collections

New York Public Library, New York, nY - 2018
Morris Jumel Mansion, New York, NY - 2017
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB - 2006

Curatorial Projects

in circulation, Empty Set, Bronx, NY - 2021
Infinite Archive: NYPL Project, New York Public LIbrary System,NY - 2018

Education

Master of Art, Lehman College, Bronx, NY - 2020
Master of Fine Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME - 2006
Bachelor of Education, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB - 2001
Bachelor of Fine Art, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS - 1999
Sculpture/Installation Major, OCAD University, Toronto, ON - 1998
Diploma of Fine Craft, New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, Fredericton, NB - 1997