Regenia A. Perry nyɛla ŋun pahi tuuli African American paɣa ban nya Ph.D. in art history.[1] yuuni 1975, Perry daa nyɛla ŋun leei tuuli African American "guest curator" zaŋ n-ti Metropolitan Museum of Art din be New York.[2]
Honors and legacy
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts nyɛla ŋun daa piligi Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art position yuuni 2021.[3] Ŋun daa nyɛ tuuli ŋun gbubi zaashee nyɛ Alexis Assam.[4][1]
Curated exhibits
Perry curated or co-curated the following selected exhibits:
James Van Der Zee's New York. Carriero Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Feb. 21 – March 11, 1983.
Near the End: Artistic Prophecies by Ruth Mae McCrane, January 17 – March 23, 1997. Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. 36-piece exhibit featuring folk-art paintings by McCrane. Curated by Perry.[5]
Selections of Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Art: June 19 – August 1, 1976. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Curated by Perry.
Spirit Work: Religion in African-American Folk Art. January 31 – March 10, 1990. Dallas, TX: Museum of African-American Life and Culture, 1990.
Books and catalogs
Art of the Kuba: Selected Works from the W. H. Sheppard Collection at Hampton University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Anderson Gallery, November 1979.[6]
Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art. San Francisco, Calif: National Museum of American Art in association with Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992. 205 pages. Introduction by Kinshasha Holman Conwill. ISBN9781566400725
Impact '79: Afro-American Women Artists: April 2 to 20, 1979, Tallahassee, FL: FAMU Art Gallery, Florida A & M University, 1979. 16 unnumbered pages. OCLC45124797
James Van Der Zee's New York. Carreiro Gallery, Boston, MA: [publisher not identified], 1983. 8 pages. OCLC9595945
The Life and Works of Charles Frederick Schweinfurth: Cleveland Architect – 1856–1919. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1981. Perry's Ph.D. Western Reserve University dissertation, 1967. 273 pages. OCLC7878352
Selections of Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Art: June 19 – August 1, 1976. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. 46 unnumbered pages. OCLC14020922
Spirits or Satire: African American Face Vessels of the Nineteenth Century. Gibbs Art Gallery, Charleston, S.C., September 1985.
What It Is: Black American Folk Art from the collection of Regenia A. Perry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Anderson Gallery, October 1982. 72 pages.[7]
Book and catalogs with contributions by Perry
Livingston, Jane, John Beardsley, and Regenia Perry. Black Folk Art in America, 1930–1980. Jackson: Published for the Corcoran Gallery of Art by the University Press of Mississippi, 1982. Perry authored the essay "Black American Folk Art: Origins and Early Manifestations."
Smith, Todd D., Regenia Perry, John Hewitt, and Vivian Hewitt. Celebration and Vision: The Hewitt Collection of African-American Art. Charlotte, NC: Bank of America Corp, 1999. 101 pages.
Perry, Regenia, and Maude Wahlman. Spirit Work: Religion in African-American Folk Art. Dallas, TX: MAALC, 1990.
Van Der Zee, James, Liliane DeCock-Morgan, Reginald McGhee, and Regenia Perry. James Van Der Zee. 1973. 159 pages. ISBN9780871000392
Van Der Zee, James, Patricia Bladon, and Regenia Perry. Roots in Harlem: Photographs by James Van Der Zee from the Collection of Regenia A. Perry: January 8 – February 19, 1989, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. [Memphis, TN]: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 1988. 44 pages. OCLC22887079
