QUEER|ART|PRIZE 2022 RECENT WORK FINALIST

The Relevance of Your Data (2022) BY grace rosario perkins

Grace Rosario Perkins lives and works in Albuquerque and is a self-taught Diné/Akimel O’odham painter interested in disassembling her personal narrative through layered words, objects, colors, and signs. Some recent sites of engagement include MOCA Tucson, Cushion Works, ONE Archives, Residency Art Gallery, Jack Barrett Gallery, Unpaved Gallery, Oakland Museum, Mills College, Cooper Union, The San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of New Mexico.

the relevance of your data (2022)

The Relevance of Your Data is an exhibition centered on a suite of new large-scale paintings by Grace Rosario Perkins commissioned by MOCA in conversation with objects by Lonnie Holley and Olen Perkins, video by Fox Maxy, and soft sculpture by Eric-Paul Riege. Bound by an intuitive approach to their chosen materials, an investment in process, and friendship, Perkins and her collaborators reflect on land, community, and home. The artists often incorporate found materials with an intent to release them of the intended utility and histories they hold, and use abstraction and an abundance of webs to serve as strategies for expansiveness and protection. Together, the group approaches artmaking as a means for building solidarity and collective healing.