Janice Perry aka Gal
Janice Perry’s work for stage, radio, and television has been published, screened at film festivals, and exhibited at academic and cultural institutions in the USA and Europe since she began international touring as a solo performer in 1981.
PERFORMANCE
Perry has written and performed twelve 90-minute stage performances–most recently Naked at the Met, a multi-media performance about traumatic brain injury.
She has performed at venues including London’s Hackney Empire, Munich’s Lach-und-Schiess Gesellschaft, Berlin’s Spiegelzelt, Frankfurt’s Gallus Theater, Amsterdam’s Kleine Komedie and Melkweg, Zurich’s Rote Fabrik, and New York’s WOW Café and Dixon Place.
Perry has presented her work at colleges and universities in the USA, Europe, and South Africa. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist and then a Fulbright Professor in Germany, she taught Performance Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Wuerzburg, as well as teaching at the University of Vermont, and Middlebury College.
Perry has collaborated on new works with Frankfurt-based video designer Philip Bussmann, and with Bussmann and Céléstine Hennerman’s 2+ Company with commissions from the Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Germany and the Goethe Institute in Montréal, Quebec.
Perry has led multiple international collaborations with emerging and established artists.
GRANTS | AWARDS | RESIDENCIES
Perry has been awarded multiple grants and fellowships– for live performance, multi-media visual art, performance collaboration, and teaching from the Vermont Arts Council and the NEA, The Vermont Community Foundation, the Fulbright Commission/US Department of State and other organizations- throughout the course of her career.
Perry was Artist-In-Residence at the Making Sense colloquia at the Paris Centre Pompidou, Yale University, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and has completed multiple artist residencies at colleges and universities in the USA and abroad.
EXHIBITIONS
Perry’s visual art, small sculptural works, and performative lecture/installations have been shown in galleries and universities in the USA and abroad.
Being Derrida premiered at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) in Berlin, and was a semi-finalist in the National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
Perry’s video, Louise Fishman is a Beautiful Thing, was installed in Philadelphia’s Woodmere Art Museum as part of Fishman’s Generations exhibition.
EDUCATION
Janice Perry holds a BA in English from Drew University, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.