Sondra Perry makes videos and performances that foreground the tools of digital production as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and to remobilize their potential. Perry has had multiple solo exhibitions, including at THE KITCHEN, for the installation “Resident Evil”, and in 2015, the artist’s work appeared in the fourth iteration of the Greater New York exhibition at MoMA/PS1. In 2017 Sondra was awarded the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize for a solo show at the Seattle Art Museum. Perry holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Alfred University. She lives and works in her hometown of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Sondra Perry in her practice explores themes of race, identity, family history, femininity, and technology. Perry makes works that revolve specifically around African American struggle and the ways in which technology and identities have entangled. She often takes her personal history as a point of departure. She uses the tools of digital production as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and to remobilize their potential.
In Lineage for a Multiple Monitor Workstation: Number One, Perry casts various members of her family to play themselves in a fragmented multithreaded narrative that centers on both real and imagined familial lore. She invites the viewer to look into the process of creating the video—the construction of the narrative—but never showing the final result. Unfolding across two screens, with multiple windows open, one on top of the other, the 2-channel video performance digs through the messy and complicated way that images function in constructing identity. The artist is presenting home-made video raising political questions of racism and social struggle that African-American community faces in daily life.
Sondra Perry makes videos and performances that foreground the tools of digital production as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and to remobilize their potential. Perry has had multiple solo exhibitions, including at THE KITCHEN, for the installation “Resident Evil”, and in 2015, the artist’s work appeared in the fourth iteration of the Greater New York exhibition at MoMA/PS1. In 2017 Sondra was awarded the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize for a solo show at the Seattle Art Museum. Perry holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Alfred University. She lives and works in her hometown of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Sondra Perry in her practice explores themes of race, identity, family history, femininity, and technology. Perry makes works that revolve specifically around African American struggle and the ways in which technology and identities have entangled. She often takes her personal history as a point of departure. She uses the tools of digital production as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and to remobilize their potential.
In Lineage for a Multiple Monitor Workstation: Number One, Perry casts various members of her family to play themselves in a fragmented multithreaded narrative that centers on both real and imagined familial lore. She invites the viewer to look into the process of creating the video—the construction of the narrative—but never showing the final result. Unfolding across two screens, with multiple windows open, one on top of the other, the 2-channel video performance digs through the messy and complicated way that images function in constructing identity. The artist is presenting home-made video raising political questions of racism and social struggle that African-American community faces in daily life.
