Grace Rosario Perkins represented by Bockley Gallery

Grace Rosario Perkins, When I See A Mountain I Want 2B A Stone, When I See Her Hand, I Want 2B A Bone, 2025

Grace Rosario Perkins’ (Diné/Akimel O’odham) solo exhibitions include Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2025–26); Fruits of the Spirit at Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2025); A Mirror, A Window, A Songbird, de boer, Los Angeles, CA (2023); and The Relevance of Your Data, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ (2022).

Her recent group exhibitions include Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ (2025); Trees Never End and Houses Never End, Sky High Farm, Germantown, NY (2025); Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2024–2025) and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2025–26); Part Two, Company Gallery, NYC (2024); and Now You See It; Now You Don’t, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2023). Perkins’ work is collected by the Gochman Family Collection, Tia Collection, Bryn Mawr College, Tweed Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. A self-taught painter, Perkins has worked as an arts educator for nearly two decades, including as Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Mills College, and visiting lecturer at Yale School of Art, Cooper Union, and Tulane University. Recent residencies and studies include the International Studio and Curatorial Program with the Leon Polk Smith Foundation (2025); an herbal apprenticeship with Karen Rose (2024–25); Lunder Institute Summer Think Tank (2024); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2023); and folk healing studies at Curanderismo Summer Institute, University of New Mexico (2024–25). Support for her work includes the Walker Youngbird Foundation’s Emerging Native Arts Grant (2025).

Perkins was born in 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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