Rachel Perry (born 1962) was born in Tokyo, Japan. She holds a Diploma and Certificate from Museum of Fine Arts Boston and also a BA from Connecticut College. She has participated in group shows at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Australia), Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), Institute of Contemporary Art, (Massachusetts and at The Drawing Center (New York). She was the Cathrine Boettcher Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, is a two-time winner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for excellence in sculpture and drawing and is a recipient of a Yaddo Fellowship. Rachel got an invitation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to be Artist-in-Residence for October 2014.
Rachel’s work combines her reflection on human processes of sorting, consuming, and sifting through information and her keen sense of humor with her meticulousness in collecting and organizing to provoke thought. Her projects usually incorporate the detritus of domestic life, such as Styrofoam cartons, bread tags, phone message slips, and receipts. She works in various media, including performance, sculpture, video, and drawing, and creates scenarios and environments that reflect 21st century life.
Rachel’s work is held in numerous private collections and museum, and has been reviewed and published in many national, as well as online, publications among them The New Yorker, Art in America, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Art on Paper, Sculpture Magazine, and Harvard Business Review. Her four-page pictorial essay was published by Vogue magazine in December 2011. Framed Rachel Perry art are highly priced by many collectors because they are in high demand.