Statement

Using personal narratives, I create installations that navigate the space between public and private. Text, images, and objects function as mnemonic devices, weaving together stories that materialize memory. My work forms typologies of recollection—an act of assembling and activating the past.

Drawn to the materiality of objects, I integrate photography, printmaking, and sculpture, synthesizing these processes to explore memory, material culture, and the social sciences. Each medium serves as a thread in a larger tapestry, tracing the connections between personal history and collective experience.

Inviting viewers into my narrative is akin to writing a play—I carefully shape the amount of information revealed, guiding perception through mapping, scripted audio, text, and non-linear patterning. By creating collections of interconnected objects, I construct layered experiences where stories unfold, overlap, and invite reflection.

b. 1974, Canada

Patrick Perry is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the spaces between dichotomies—beautiful and ugly, ordinary and extraordinary, art and craft. Through site-specific works and installations, he engages with the subtle tensions that emerge in these interstitial spaces.

Perry’s academic journey spans multiple disciplines. He earned a Diploma in Fine Craft specializing in Jewelry/Metal Arts from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design in 1997. He pursued Sculpture and Installation at the Ontario College of Art in 1998 before completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1999. He went on to obtain a Bachelor of Education from the University of New Brunswick in 2000, a Master of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art in 2006, and a Master of Arts in Photography from Lehman College, New York, in 2019.

His professional experience includes roles 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. Perry has exhibited his work in numerous group and solo exhibitions across Canada and the United States.

Based in New York City, he is the founder of mē´tria metal, a jewelry company, and is currently pursuing a Landscape Design Certificate at the School of Professional Horticulture at the New York Botanical Gardens.

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

Landscape Design certificate program, school for Horticulture and Landscape Design, bronx, ny - present
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