Statement

Using personal narratives, I create installations that operate in the space between public and private. Text, images, and objects function as mnemonic devices, weaving stories that materialize memory. Through these assemblages, my work forms typologies of recollection—an active process of gathering, structuring, and reanimating the past.

Drawn to the material presence of objects, I integrate photography, printmaking, and sculpture, synthesizing these processes to examine memory, material culture, and the social sciences. Each medium functions as a connective thread, tracing relationships between personal history and collective experience.

Inviting viewers into my work is akin to staging a play: I carefully calibrate what is revealed and withheld, guiding perception through mapping, scripted audio, text, and non-linear structures. By creating collections of interconnected objects, I construct layered environments in which narratives unfold, overlap, and invite sustained reflection.

b. 1974, Canada

Patrick Perry is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the spaces between perceived dichotomies—beautiful and ugly, ordinary and extraordinary, art and craft. Through site-specific works and installations, he investigates the subtle tensions that arise within these interstitial zones.

Perry’s academic training spans multiple disciplines. He received a Diploma in Fine Craft with a specialization in Jewelry/Metal Arts from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (1997), followed by studies in Sculpture and Installation at the Ontario College of Art (1998). He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1999), a Bachelor of Education from the University of New Brunswick (2000), a Master of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art (2006), and a Master of Arts in Photography from Lehman College, City University of New York (2019).

His professional experience includes work as an Exhibition Designer, Exhibition Coordinator, and art college instructor. He currently teaches Jewelry, Sculpture, 3D Design, and Darkroom Photography at Eastchester High School in Westchester, New York. Perry has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States.

Based in Lake Peekskill, New York, Perry is the founder of metria metal a jewelry company, and is currently pursuing a Landscape Design Certificate at the School of Professional Horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden.

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