Hannah Perry
Visual artist.
Hannah Perry was born 1984 in the North of England, UK. She lives and works in London, UK. She graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2009 and then Royal Academy of Arts 2014. Recent exhibitions include (solo show) at the Baltic Gallery in Newcastle (2024); Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf (2024); NTNT, Chester Contemporary; (duo show) at Galerie Kandlhofer (2023); Liquid Language, Arsenal Toronto; A Smashed Window and an Empty Room at the Kunstverein Hamburg; Gush, Somerset House, London; and Rage Fluids, Kuenstlerhaus, Graz, Austria, as well as an exhibition for the Artist-in-Residence programme of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia. Her work has been shown at: Over the Influence, LA; Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal; ICA Off-Site, London; Private Settings: Art After the Internet, MOMA, Warsaw, Poland; Royal Academy of Arts, London; and Stedelijk at Trouw, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Hannah Perry is represented by Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin), Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer (Vienna) and Althuis Hofland Fine Arts (Amsterdam).
Perry weaves a tapestry of influences, tapping into personal narratives, collective testimonies, and cultural touchstones to explore the swift pace of our hyper-technological era. Her works include expansive sculptures, painting and immersive audio-visual installations that seamlessly blend sound, technology, dance, spoken word, printmaking, and 360-video. With a spectrum of themes, Perry highlights feminist socio-political issues embedded in coded industrial materials, exploring the dynamics of youth, pop culture and 'taste', social class and personal histories. She also examines the nuanced realms of motherhood, erotic discourse and mental health. Moving beyond the personal, to explore the broader cultural context.
“To reject distance and autonomy in favour of enlightenment and contingency, communication and recording technologies have become the linchpins of selfhood, making it inevitable to see the world from inside a filter bubble. Alongside her evident interest in sociocultural mapping (gender, social class, pop culture), the personal/diaristic aspect of Perry's work has become more pronounced.”
Alexander Scrimgeour, Spike Magazine