Peri Law
Finalist
Peri Law (born 1998, Charlotte, NC; lives Philadelphia, PA) has a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed an apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including at Camden Fireworks, NJ; Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC; Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO; Kent State University, OH; Fleisher Art Memorial and William Way LGBT Community Center, both Philadelphia; and VAE Raleigh, NC. Law’s work is held in the collections of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Kansas State University, Manhattan; Free Library of Philadelphia; and Library of Congress, Washington, DC. She received a 2025 Wind Challenge Award from Fleisher Art Memorial, a William Way LGBT Community Center 18th Juried Exhibition Juror Award in 2024, and their Arts Committee Award in 2023. In 2024, she was the AAPI collaborating artist with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Law is a board member of The Soapbox Community Print Shop, a teaching-artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fleisher Art Memorial and the Youth Programming Coordinator with Asian Americans United.
Statement from the Artist:
My work appropriates from my multiracial heritage, recreating domestic scenes and revising objects to reflect the global imperialism that soaks my bloodline. My art is heavily influenced by the art-historical canon, imagining traditional Asian art through the lens of the contemporary diaspora, existing with apathy, an over-desire for connection with others, and a longing for self-acceptance.