Rachel Perry Welty

Rachel Perry (formerly Rachel Perry Welty), born 1962, Tokyo Japan, is an American artist. She is known for conceptual works using drawing, photography, video, collage, sculpture and performance, which address “the fleeting nature of experience, the elusiveness of desire, and the persistence of objects in a throwaway culture.”[1] Art critic Jerry Saltz has written that her work "not only grappl[es] with consumerism but [she is] just about swallowed whole by it.”[2]

She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and internationally, including a solo exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery  in 2015, about which art critic Roberta Smith has written, “…obsessive delights await in this strange and beautiful show…”[3]

Perry’s work can be found in the museum collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Baltimore Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Montclair Art Museum, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, and the Addison Gallery of American Art, among others. Her first solo museum show was held at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in 2011.

Biography

Rachel Lyman Perry was born in 1962 in Tokyo, Japan to Sarah Hollis Perry and John Curtis Perry  She received her BA from Connecticut College in 1984 and a Diploma (2000) and Fifth Year Certificate (2001) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She lives and works in Gloucester, Massachusetts and Brooklyn, New York.

Work

One of her best known works is the video Karaoke Wrong Number (2004) in which the artist lip-syncs to five years of wrong number messages. This work entered the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2007. 

Twitter project

Since 2009 Rachel Perry has been performing on twitter, tweeting once per day, every day, the daily life of a working artist in 140 characters exactly.

Awards and recognition

Throughout her career Perry has received numerous awards for her work. She is a two-time winner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award (2004 in Drawing; 2009 in Sculpture), and has twice been awarded the Traveling Fellowship from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for proven excellence. Perry has been named both Catherine Boettcher Fellow and Anne Stark and Kurt Locher Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, and has been Artist-in-Residence in an ongoing program at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum since October 2014. 

Representation

Rachel Perry is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.

References

  1. ↑ Donna Gustafson, Curator, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University
  2. ↑ Saltz, Jerry (May 28, 2012). "Leading a Full Life". New York magazine: p. 94.
  3. ↑ Smith, Roberta. "Rachel Perry Welty".
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