Hannah Perry (b. 1984, Chester, England) is a British artist currently living and working in London. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London and completed her MA at The Royal Academy of Art, London.

Perry’s artistic practice spans installation, sculpture, print, and video. Her work is characterized by the continuous generation and manipulation of materials such as footage, sound clips, images, and objects. Through this process, she creates a sprawling network of references that carefully explore personal memory within today’s hyper-technological society. By bending back the systems of representation through hyperactive distribution, Perry examines the impact of technology on memory and identity.

Her artistic approach is guided by music or speech, employing repetition, focalisation, and deceleration to expose "the strength of our personal investment in images of the illusory (youth, power, sex, taste, lifestyle) as well as the prescriptive nature of these desires."

Recent notable exhibitions include The Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of Modern Art, Bentonville, USA (2021) and Turzah at Sculpture Center New York (2022). Other significant shows are ‘Liquid Language’ at Arsenal Contemporary Art, Toronto (2019), ‘A smashed window and an empty room’ at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2019), and her artist residency at Somerset House, London (2018). Perry also exhibited at The Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien (KM–), Graz (2018), and presented ‘Its Not There Till its There’ at Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna (2018).

Further exhibitions include ‘100 Problems’ at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2016), ‘I feel we think bad’ at Arsenal Montreal, Canada (2016), and Mercury Retrograde at Seventeen, London (2015). Her work was featured in ‘You’re gonna be great’ at Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam (2015), ‘Private settings: Art After the Internet’ at MOMA Warsaw, Poland (2014), and ‘New Order II’ at Saatchi Gallery, London (2014). Perry also participated in ‘A sense of things’ at Zabludowicz Collection, London (2014), ‘Stedelijk at Trouw’ at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2013), and her solo show ‘Hannah Perry’ at Zabludowicz Collection, London (2012).

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