Sondra Perry
“The backhoe is now removed from use, and so it has time to think about all these ways terraforming has happened on this planet, and how it can happen on others. . . . The piece really came from a type of thinking about shifting geologies in relationship to colonialism, and how the shifting of the earth, the changing of the South, coincided with the changing and shifting of people—how they have been moved and shifted throughout time. . . .”
![Sondra Perry, GIF excerpt, *Eclogue for [in]HABITABILITY*, 2017–20. Backhoe workstation with three-channel HD synced monitor video and projection, sound, running time variable. Overall dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York.](placeholder.png)
Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Alfred University. Solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA; Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, USA; Disjecta, Portland, USA; Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, USA; The Kitchen, New York, USA; and Institute for New Connotative Action, Seattle, USA. Perry has participated in residencies at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (2015–16), RECESS (2015), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013), Ox-bow (2012), Vermont Studio Center (2011), and the Experimental Television Center (2011). She currently lives and works in Newark, New Jersey.
Image in menu: Sondra Perry, still from Eclogue for [in]HABITABILITY, 2017–20. Backhoe workstation with three-channel HD synced monitor video and projection, sound, running time variable. Overall dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York.
Sondra Perry
“The backhoe is now removed from use, and so it has time to think about all these ways terraforming has happened on this planet, and how it can happen on others. . . . The piece really came from a type of thinking about shifting geologies in relationship to colonialism, and how the shifting of the earth, the changing of the South, coincided with the changing and shifting of people—how they have been moved and shifted throughout time. . . .”
Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Alfred University. Solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA; Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, USA; Disjecta, Portland, USA; Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, USA; The Kitchen, New York, USA; and Institute for New Connotative Action, Seattle, USA. Perry has participated in residencies at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (2015–16), RECESS (2015), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013), Ox-bow (2012), Vermont Studio Center (2011), and the Experimental Television Center (2011). She currently lives and works in Newark, New Jersey.
Image in menu: Sondra Perry, still from Eclogue for [in]HABITABILITY, 2017–20. Backhoe workstation with three-channel HD synced monitor video and projection, sound, running time variable. Overall dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York.