Artist Talk: Elle Pérez
For photographer Elle Pérez, whose work is featured in the exhibition _Orlando at Art on Hulfish, the camera is an instrument of recognition, creating intimate documents of community relationships. Pérez’s multifaceted practice of portrait, landscape, and observational photography centers on the complexity of personal identity. The artist will discuss images, identity, and storytelling across their work, and will be introduced by Chief Curator Juliana Ochs Dweck. The exhibition Orlando_ is organized by Aperture, New York. Guest Curated by Tilda Swinton.
Cosponsored by the Gender + Sexuality Resource Center.
Elle Pérez (b. 1989, Bronx, New York) lives and works in New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include Devotions (2021), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; _from sun to _sun (2019), Public Art Fund, New York; and Diablo (2018), MoMA PS1, New York. Pérez’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Barbican Centre, London; Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. They are currently an assistant professor of art, film, and visual studies at Harvard University, and dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.