Elle Pérez

The Weitzman Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of Contemporary Art are pleased to present an artist lecture and presentation with Elle Pérez.

This free public lecture is part of a series that gathers distinguished artists, activists, writers, and disruptors whose work engages with the social and cultural themes of our time.

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About the Artist
Elle Pérez (b. 1989, Bronx, New York) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include “The World is Always Again Beginning, History with the Present,” The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2025); “guabancex,” 47 Canal, New York (2023); “Devotions,” Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2023); “Devotions,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2021); “from sun to sun,” Public Art Fund, New York (2019) and “Diablo,” MoMA PS1, New York (2018). They participated in the 2022 Venice Biennale, the 2022 New England Triennial, and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Recent group exhibitions include Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2025); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2023); Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (2022); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2020); Barbican Centre, London (2020); and Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019), among others. Their work is held in public collections at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, CA; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others. They will be publishing a new book with Aperture to be released in Fall 2026.

Support
The Master of Fine Arts program at Penn is focused on the professional development of visual artists. Through workshops, seminar courses, international residency opportunities and interactions with curators, writers and artists, the program provides an open intellectual framework to foster independent methods of artistic research.

Programming at ICA is made possible in part by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts and the Lise Spiegel Wilks and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation. Public and Student Engagement at ICA is supported by the Bernstein Public Engagement Fund, Suzanne Weiss Doft & Jacob W. Doft, Stacey & Robert Goergen Jr., Hilarie L. & Mitchell Morgan, the Nash Family Foundation, Joline & David Stemerman, and by Dana McDonald Strong & Mark W. Strong.