Carol Pereira-Olson is a performance and visual artist, originally trained as a painter, with an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Cooper Union. Painting and drawing are only a departure point for Pereira’s large-scale mixed-media installations. Pereira merges traditional painting, drawing, photography and digital editing techniques to deconstruct, isolate, abstract, recreate, and resituate familiar images; and, through this exploratory layering of processes, she grounds her work within the realm of painting.
Amongst her accolades, Pereira is a U.S. Fulbright Grant recipient, a Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting Alumnae, and a recent recipient of CUNY’s PSC Faculty Research Grant. Pereira’s notable exhibitions and residencies include the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, Miami Art Basel, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Exit Art and GallerySKE, Aomori Art Center, Yaddo, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Art Omi International, The MacDowell Colony, and FACETS. Her film exhibitions span from San Francisco to South Africa, Korea, and London.
Carol Pereira lives and works in Long Island City, Queens.
“The artwork is untitled. They are a series of 10 digital prints, 5×7 inches, created in 2021 in response to looking repeatedly out of a window. All digital prints have drawn marks and lines using color pencils.”