REBUILDING THE BUILT XII [Selected for the SUMMER EXHIBITION at the ROYAL ACADEMY, LONDON. 13th June-20th August 2017 Print

The London Group Member Senior Fellow of the Royal Society Of Painter-Printmakers; Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen; Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Arts; Member of Prism Print International; Member of the 62 Group; Former Lecturer, MA Printmaking, Middlesex University, London 2016; Taught a Course on Paper Manipulation & 3D Assemblage-Royal Academy, London 2018; Keynote Speaker-RELAXING THE LINE-Innovations in Printmaking. Royal Overseas League, London. Speaker-MULTI MATRIX Symposium, Belfast '19 Keynote Speaker-PAGES: The International Contemporary Artist Book Event, Leeds. UK; .pdf Artist Residency-Yinchuan CHINA '19 Guest Artist Fellowship 6week Residency/Solo Show-VENICE: Saxa Loquuntor-Stone Lithography Residency. Pierre Press, Toulouse, FRANCE 6-20th May '17 Teaching Residency-CAFA Beijing CHINA '07 Artist-in-Residence National OpenArt Competition '16 Overall Best in Show Prize-DRAW 16 [Strathmore Fine Artist Paper Bursary] PUBLIC COLLECTIONS "¢ Tate Britain [9 works] "¢ Victoria & Albert Museum [12 works] "¢ Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [2 works] ¢ British Museum ¢ Royal Collection of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II "¢ Yale Centre for British Art, USA [2 works] "¢ Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan "¢ British Library, London, UK "¢ Guanlan Museum, China "¢ Grafisk vaerksted-Naestved, Denmark "¢ Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Permanent Art Collection. Alexandria, Egypt "¢ Southern Cross University Artist Book Collection, NSW, Australia "¢ CFPR (Centre for Fine Print Reserach) Collection,University of West England, Bristol. UK "¢ Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Kansas, USA "¢ Centre for Artist Books, Visual Research Centre, DCA, Dundee "¢ ULUS Print Triennial Collection, Belgrade, Serbia "¢ PrintROOM - Rotterdam "¢ Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery "¢ Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London "¢ DFWEA Collection, Satu Mare, Romania "¢ Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collection "¢ Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK "¢ Scarborough Print Archive, UK "¢ Iraq National Library, Baghdad "¢ Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, R.O.C. "¢ Scarborough Print Archive "¢ Leeds College of Art Library Collection "¢ Lafayette College Library, Artist Book Collection USA STATEMENT Sumi Perera's work oscillates between the vertical and horizontal plane, liberating wall hung artwork to a publicly accessible space to be handled and touched.