DVAA Member since 2026

Peri Law

2026 dvaa resident

WEBsite: perijlaw.com

Instagram: @perijlaw

About:

Peri Law is a printmaker and teaching artist living in Philadelphia. Her art is focused on multiracial identity, Asian diaspora, domesticity, and intergenerational memory. She is an organizer in Philadelphia’s Asian American community as the Youth Programs Coordinator at Asian Americans United and a board member and programming coordinator at The Soapbox Community Print Shop. She graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History and completed a post-graduate apprenticeship at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. She recently was awarded the 2025 Wind Challenge and was awarded the Gallery Store Award as a finalist for the Print Center’s 99th Annual Juried Exhibition. She is a frequent artist collaborator with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Ginger Arts Center. Her art has been exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Way Center (Philadelphia, PA), Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia, PA) Woskob Family Gallery (State College, PA), Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO), Kent State University (Kent, OH), VAE Raleigh (Raleigh, NC), and the Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC) and is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

Artist Statement:

My work appropriates from my multiracial heritage, recreating domestic scenes and revising objects to reflect the global imperialism that soaks my bloodline. My art is heavily influenced by the art historical canon, imagining traditional Asian art through the lens of the contemporary diaspora, existing with apathy, an over desire for connection with others, and a longing for self-acceptance.