CV:
Eileen Perrier MA (RCA)
Date of Birth: 27.09.1974
Place of Birth: London
Education
1998 – 2000
MA - The Royal College of Art (London)
1993 – 1996
BA (Hons) -The Surrey Institute of Art and Design (Farnham, Surrey)
Selected - Solo / Group Exhibitions:
2023
Afro Hair and Beauty Show (1998) The Missing Thread: Untold Stories Of Black British Fashion, Somerset House, London, UK
2023
Ghana (1995/96)
London Art Fair - Photo 50 Beautiful Experiments
Curated by Pelumi Odubanjo and Katy Barron. Business Design Centre, London, UK
2022
Pamela and Nybs, The Foundling Museum, London, UK
2017
Still-Moving-Still, BP Family Festival: Play The Gallery, Tate Britain Festival, London, UK
2016
Mobile Portraits, The Human Document – The Photography of Persuasion from 1930s America to Present Day, Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK
2016
WeAreW12 was a free photography exhibition and a celebration of Shepherd’s Bush, created by photographer Eileen Perrier and the people of Shepherd’s Bush. Commissioned by The Bush Theatre.
2015
Portraits of a Global Law School (2015), Permanent Exhibition, in The Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College, London, UK
2015
Peckham Square Studio(2014), Portraits From An Island, Goa International Photo Festival, 2015
2014 Peckham Square Studio (2014), Solo Exhibition, Peckham, London, UK
2013
The Albert Studio (2013),
Build | Billboard Project, Queens Park, London, UK
2013
Afro Hair and Beauty (1998),
My Hair: Black Hair Culture, style and Politics, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
2013
Afro Hair and Beauty Show series, Africa Centre Summer Festival, Covent Garden, Tube Station, London, UK
2012
The World In London, The Photographers’ Gallery, Victoria Park and Oxford Street, London, UK
2011
Nation series, RCA Black, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2011
Schiller Market Studio, Playing the City 3, Schirn Frankfurt, Germany
2010
Ghana Series, A Useful Dream: African Photography 1960 – 2010, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels
2009
Wentworth Street Studios: Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2007
Culture and Care: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (Student and Staff), Kings College London, UK
2007
Grace, Africa Remix, touring, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa.
2007
Red, Gold and Green, How We Are: Photographing Britain,
Tate Britain, London, UK
2007
Grace, Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects (1997-2007) Toronto, Canada.
2006
Grace, Africa Remix, touring, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2006
Grace, Africa Remix, touring, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2005
Southend Trim, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2005
Grace, Africa Remix, touring, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
2005
Grace, Africa Remix, touring, Hayward Gallery, London.
2004
Embrace, Gasworks Gallery, London
2004
Staged Realities: The Studio in African Photography 1870 – 2004,
Cape Town, South Africa
2004
Red, Gold and Green, 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2004
Grace, Africa Remix, touring, Museum Kunst Palast. Düsseldorf, Germany.
2004
6 - 8 and Found, Space Gallery, London
2003
6 - 8 and Black Hair and Beauty, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
2002
Blessing, Brixton Studio, Photographers Gallery, London
2002
Grace, Piccadilly Circus, Exit 2, London
2002
Nation, The Tardis Window, Farringdon, London
2001
Red, Gold and Green,
The IVth African Photography Encounters in Bamako, Mali, Africa. Touring exhibition.
2001
Grace and Nation, The Two of Us. The Pump House Gallery and Autograph, London, UK
2001
Grace, Africa Today: The Artist and the City, Centre de Cultura
Contemporania de Barcelona. Spain
2001
The Black Hair and Beauty Show, The Centre of Attention Gallery, London
2000
Grace, MA RCA – The Show, London, UK
1999
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, Scotland, UK
1998
Red, Gold and Green,
The Appropriated Frame: Group Show by Autograph at Dark Arches, Granary Wharf, Leeds
1997
Red Gold and Green, Shoreditch Biennale, London
Awards / Commissions:
2022
Pamela and Nybs, Double Portrait, Art Commission for The Foundling Museum, London, UK
2015
Kings College London, Law School, Art Commission, Portraits of a Global Law School, London, UK
2014
Tate Britain, Art Commission, BP Family Festival: Close Encounters of the Art Kind, London, UK
2014
Autograph ABP, Art Commission / Workshops, as part of Black Chronicles II, London, UK
2014
Peckham Platform, Art Commission, Peckham Square Studio, London, UK
2012
The Albert Studio, Artist in Residence, London, UK
2011
Schiller Market Studio, Playing the City 3, Schirn Frankfurt, Germany
2011
Tate Modern - Art Commission - Pembroke House Studio - 16th July 2011 as part of the Wonderful Walworth Day and Community newsletter 'Tate Modern and You'
2009
The Photographers Gallery, London: Art Commission - 2012 Olympics.
2009
Film and Video Umbrella – Free to Air: Development Artist Programme: London, UK
2008
Wentworth Street Studios: Art Commission for Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2007
Face to Face: Creative Partnership in Horsenden Primary School in collaboration with Claire Haddon. London, UK
2007
Culture and Care: New Art Commissions for Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College, London, UK
2005
Focal Point Gallery. Commission: ‘Southend Trim’. South-end On-Sea, UK.
2004
Gasworks Gallery, London: Commission: Gas Board I: Embrace, 2004
2003
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham: commission: 6-8 2003, Black Hair and Beauty 2003. Nottingham
2003
Space Studio: Cultural Diversity Studio Award. London
2002
Photographers Gallery commission: Blessing. London
2002
Seydou Keita – Portrait Prize. Mali
2001 The British Council – Grants to Artists ‘IVth African Photography Encounters in Bamako,’ Mali, Africa. 1999 Egg Award. London
1999
National Magazine Award, London
1997
Autograph ABP, London: commission: Red, Gold and Green. London
Collections:
Arts Council England | Autograph ABP | Foundling Museum | Light Work | Sandika | Tate Britain | Wedge Collection