About the Artist

Perri Neri is an artist and curator currently working in New York City. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Refrigerator Poetry Visual Art Archive and teaches drawing and painting.

Neri holds an MFA from Pratt Institute and has had several solo exhibitions in New York City at The Painting Center and Ceres Gallery. Neri has also been included in several group exhibitions in New York City galleries that included Caelum Gallery, and AIR in Brooklyn. A retrospective of her work was exhibited at The Morean Center for the Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida (2020). Other exhibitions include the Orlando Museum of Art, Polk Museum of Art, and Tampa Museum of Art. Her curatorial projects include “I Am My Best Work (2020), “New Optics” (2020), “Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love,” (2021), and “Indivisible Spectrum.” (2022).

My drawing materials are high quality graphite pencils and beautiful museum quality archival paper. I create a multi-toned drawing using a range of pencils, each with different tonal values.
— Perri Neri