Sumi Perera RE

Sumi Perera is a post-disciplinary academic, curator, artist who obtained a MA from Camberwell College, University of Arts London in 2003-04. She has taught at Middlesex University on the MA Printmaking course and the Royal Academy’s short courses program.

She exhibits internationally and has held many artist residencies in Venice, Italy (2017); at Pierre Presse a lithography studio in Marcilhac, France (2017); in The Artists’ Village in Yinchuan China (2019) and a teaching residency at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Art) Beijing in 2007; and Mercers’ Hall, London (2016).

She has won many awards internationally: Gold Medal in Seoul, The Prix de Print USA, The Flourish Award, Scuola Venice Guest Artist Fellowship; The Birgit Skiold prize at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) London; many awards at the Society of Bookbinders Conference; The SCU Artistbook Award in Australia; The Laurence King Publishers Prize 2016. She has been shortlisted for the Ruskin Prize 2017; The Art Gemini Prize 2017; Dentons Art Prize 2022 & 2023; the Neo:Print Prize 2016 etc.

Perera was invited to be a judge for the Women in Art Prize 2023 and 2024; The Art Gemini Prize 2024, The WYPW Flourish Award – Excellence in Printmaking 2019, and the New Designers Show at the BDC for the Society of Designer Craftsmen 2025.

Her work is held in many public and private collections, including the Tate Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum, Royal Collection, British Library, Ashmolean Museum, Yale Centre for British Art USA; & museums in China, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Iraq, Egypt, Taiwan, USA & Australia. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Painters Printmakers, Society Of Designer Craftsmen, Society of Graphic Fine Artists, The 62 Group of Textile Artists and The London Group.