Sumi Perera

Sumi Perera is an interdisciplinary artist, academic & curator who makes interactive print installations, some that generate sound(electroconductive-inks) & mutate in colour(thermochromic-inks), exploiting her background as a doctor & scientist born in Sri Lanka & living & working in UK. She obtained a MA at Camberwell College, London 2004 and has taught at Middlesex University & Royal Academy, London. She has held many international residencies: at CAFA, Beijing 2007 & Yinchuan, China in 2019; at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice 2017, Stone Lithography at Pierre Presse, France 2017; The National Open Art Residency in London 2016. She exhibits internationally & has won awards/prizes: Prix de Print, Art in Print USA 2015, Gold Medal-Seoul 1st International Artistbook Competition 2005; 1st Prize-SHELTER, USA; Flourish Award 2015-excellence in printmaking & solo show. Public & private collections of her work: Tate(10works); Victoria & Albert museum(12works); Yale Centre of British Art(2); Ashmolean (2); Royal Collection, British Museum, China, Japan, Italy, Australia, Iraq etc. A 12year retrospective of collaborative projects: “Sumi Perera et al.” was shown at CFPR, UWE Bristol 2017; & at IMPACT10 & IMPACT11 [International Printmaking Conference-Spain’18 & Hong Kong‘21]. Last year a solo exhibition 'The Architectural Uncanny' was exhibited at IMPACT12 Print Conference, Bristol.