Biography

Cory D. Perry (b. 1989, Ozarks) is an internationally recognized multimedia and performance artist. As a Black American artist from the Ozarks, their work traverses the crossroads between photography, fiber arts, sound, and performance. Some elements of their practice include “erosion” as process and researching Southern river rituals. For example, in their current work, they use a “washing” method on inkjet-printed images to erode embedded pigments within the ink, giving the final object an ethereal aesthetic. They are a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from The University of Arkansas School of Art and attended the Post-baccalaureate program in Sculpture and Museum Research at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Perry received their Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Art, Theory, Practice department at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. They are also a recipient of the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship (2019) and the Sexualities Project at Northwestern University Fellowship (2022). They were an honorary international artist for Chale Wote Performance Art Festival in Accra, Ghana (2019), and A participant artist for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2023) where they created and performed "QueerBlackSunshine'' a meditative protest on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Perry’s projects have shown at the South Side Community Arts Center (Chicago); Arning Gallery (Houston); Smithsonian Institution (D.C.); Form and Concept Gallery (Santa Fe, NM); KNUST (Accra, Ghana); among many others.