Perri Neri

Perri Neri is known for her abstract figurative paintings and drawings, birthing shape, texture, and color while addressing questions of sexuality, identity, and memory.

“I am interested in the merging of content with the act of drawing and painting. Binary opposition—pain and pleasure; nurturing and torturing; opulence and the mortification of the flesh—set the tempo for a provocative dance between figurative and abstract. Some of the work, be they drawings or paintings, are in direct response to particular paintings or themes in art history. Other artworks are visual meditations on how it feels to be in my own skin, this mother/daughter/wife/lesbian/corpulent skin. The intent is always to invite interpretation; to not leave them alone in their sensual strangeness.”


In 2007, Perri earned a MFA in Painting with Distinction from The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Since that time she has had two solo exhibitions in New York City and several group exhibitions. In 2016 she was invited to exhibit in a group exhibition at Caelum Gallery and was mentioned in a review in ArteFuse. Her work has been featured in two volumes of Studio Visit Magazine and in a 2015 article, Women in Contemporary Art, Where are They Now?, ...

The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
MFA with Distinction, 2007

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Women Under Siege, Group Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, NYC 2016
Extended Consciousness, Group Exhibition, Caelum Gallery, NYC 2016
Alumni Exhibition, Scarfone-Hartley Gallery, Tampa, FL 2015
Monster: The Drawings, Solo Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, NYC 2014
Three Decades of Ceres, Ceres Gallery, NYC 2013
Group Exhibition, Saraghi Art Space, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia 2013
Sight Specific, Group Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, NYC 2012
Perri Neri: New Paintings, Solo Exhibit, Ceres Gallery, NYC 2012
Alumni Exhibition, Scarfone-Hartley Gallery, Tampa, FL (catalog) 2012
Inside/Outside, Group Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, NYC 2012
Perri Neri at Rachel Roy, Rachel Roy Showroom, NYC 2011
Bovarnick, Comelias, & Neri, Three Person Show, Scarfone-Hartley, Tampa 2009
Pratt MFA Thesis Exhibition, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2007
Exit Show, Group Exhibition, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL 2004
Emerging Artist, Solo Exhibition, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 2003
All Florida Fine Art Juried Exhibtion, Saltcreek Artworks, St.Petersburg, FL 2002
Figurative Elements, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL 2002
The Really Big Show, Group Exhibition, Tam...