Artist Bio

Mikaela Perry (b. 1992, St. Johnsbury, VT) is a figurative oil painter and former fifth-generation farmer based in New York, NY and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. She received her BA in 2014 from Middlebury College and her MA from New York University in 2022. Her work primarily depicts human and animal figures, inviting viewers of her artwork to be in relationship with their own ancestral ties to land and nature. She has exhibited her work in group shows and juried exhibitions throughout the US, and in 2023 exhibited her first solo show at Solas Studio in the Flatiron District of New York City. Perry was honored as a recipient of the 2023 NYC 40 Under 40: Rising Stars in Food Policy Award for her representation of rural life and small farms, was selected as a 2024 Chashama ChaNorth Artist in Residence, and was a 2025 featured artist for the Six Foot Platform in Dumbo, Brooklyn, hosted by Brooklyn Arts Council and Team Dumbo . Perry's work has been featured in the AQ Quarterly Journal Vol. 1, curated by Ekaterina Popova, the City of New York’s Food Policy Center News, and published in the "Writing the Land" anthology in partnership with Hudson Taconic Land Trust.