About

“I am an abstract-figurative painter fascinated by the visceral palpability of being human. Evolutions of gestures, tones, impulses and sensations are worked into the raw side of the canvas, a metaphorical skin that absorbs the paint like how the body holds onto memories. Mapping out the miscellany of predicaments coexisting at the same time, I am expressing what it feels like to be in this skin, in this moment, on this day.”

Biography

Perri Neri is an artist and curator currently working in New York City. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Living Room - NYC, and Refrigerator Poetry Visual Art Archive. She is represented by The Painting Center in New York City.

Neri holds an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute and has had several solo exhibitions in New York City at The Painting Center and Ceres Gallery. Neri has also been included in several group exhibitions in New York City galleries that included Caelum Gallery, AIR in Brooklyn, and was a featured artist in Rachel Roy Showroom in Manhattan. A retrospective of her work was exhibited at The Morean Center for the Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida (2020). Other exhibitions include the Orlando Museum of Art, Polk Museum of Art, and Tampa Museum of Art. Her curatorial projects include “I Am My Best Work (2020), “New Optics” (2020), “Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love,” (2021), and “Indivisible Spectrum.” (2022). Neri’s work has been featured in two volumes of Studio Visit Magazine and was featured in Honeysuckle Magazine (2015), Women in Contemporary Art, Where are They Now?