Eileen Perrier
b. 1974
Eileen Perrier (born 1974, London, UK) is an artist with dual Ghanaian and Dominican diasporic heritage. She has been a photographer and teacher of photography since the late 1990s, influencing generations of photographers both in the UK and overseas.
Her work has been widely exhibited since 1999, including The Photographers' Gallery, (London, UK); Tate Britain (London, UK); The Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), the touring exhibition Africa Remix, which included the Hayward Gallery (London) and The Centre Pompidou (Paris, France). Perrier has also been artist in residence at Light Work (in partnership with Autograph) (New York, USA); in Playing The City, Kunsthalle Schirn (Frankfurt, Germany) and has worked with Tate Britain (as an invited artist) on their education programme - BP Family Festival: Close Encounters of the Art Kind and currently has work installed from a portrait commission with Kings College London called Portraits of a Global Law School currently displayed on level -1 in Somerset House East Wing.
Her works are represented in private and public collections including Arts Council England (UK); Autograph (UK); Foundling Museum (UK); Light Work (USA); Sindika Dokolo Foundation (Angola); Tate (UK); Wedge Collection (Canada).