Carmen Perrin (born 1953) is a Bolivian-born Swiss visual artist, designer, and educator. She has worked as a sculptor, site-specific artist, and printmaker, as well as worked in the design public garden spaces and public art in collaborate with architects. From 1989 to 2004, she was the university chair of her alma mater,

École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève (English: ''School of Fine Arts, Geneva''), was an art school founded in 1748 in Geneva, Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government ...

Biography

Carmen Perrin was born on January 9, 1953 in

La Paz La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the third-most populous city in Bol ...

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to Swiss parents. Her father is filmmaker, Alberto Perrin. In 1960, she moved with her family back to

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. She attended École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève (the school has since been merged and re-named the

Geneva University of Art and Design Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), () is a European art and design school founded in 2006, and belonging to the network of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland. History HEAD was formed in 2006 from the me ...

), where she graduated in 1980. Her early work was primarily sculptures made of industrial items (such as

bricks A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured cons ...

wire Overhead power cabling. The conductor consists of seven strands of steel (centre, high tensile strength), surrounded by four outer layers of aluminium (high conductivity). Sample diameter 40 mm A wire is a flexible strand of metal. Wire is co ...

rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, and ...

), which explored the physical materials and their interactions. After 1990, she began to work at a much larger scale and was considerate of the site of the work. In 1993, she had her debut solo exhibition in the United States at the

Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York (SI) is an independent non-profit contemporary art organization founded in 1986. SI is located at 38 St Marks Pl, the corner of Second Avenue and St Marks Place in the East Village neighborhood of Manhatt ...

. She was awarded the

Manor Cultural Prize Manor Cultural Prize (; ) is a Swiss fine arts prize awarded every two years by the Manor (department store) alongside art museums in 12 Swiss cities, which was founded in 1982 in Lucerne. The goal is to promote emerging artists under the age of 40 ...

(1988) for the

Canton of Geneva The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva (french: link=no, République et canton de Genève; frp, Rèpublica et canton de Geneva; german: Republik und Kanton Genf; it, Repubblica e Cantone di Ginevra; rm, Republica e ...

; and the Trigon Prize ’89 from the Trigon Museum,

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popula ...

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. Her work is in museum collections, including at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of th ...

in New York City.

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1953 births Living people Alumni of the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève Faculty of the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève Artists from Geneva People from La Paz Swiss women artists 20th-century Swiss women artists 21st-century Swiss women artists {{Artist-stub