Art Toronto Selects: Rajni Perera

Artist Rajni Perera (she/her) was born in Sri Lanka and lives and works in Toronto. Her work explores issues of hybridity, sacrilege, irreverence, the indexical sciences, ethnography, gender, sexuality, popular culture, deities, monsters, and dream worlds. She selects her top 10 works from Art Toronto below.

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Rajni Perera (she/her) was born in Sri Lanka and lives and works in Toronto. She explores issues of hybridity, sacrilege, irreverence, the indexical sciences, ethnography, gender, sexuality, popular culture, deities, monsters, and dream worlds. These themes marry in a newly objectified realm of mythical symbioses and counteract oppressive discourses. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Phi Foundation (Montreal), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Gwangju Biennale (South Korea), Colomboscope (Sri Lanka) and Eastside Projects (UK) among others. She is in numerous collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Museé De Beaux-Arts, the McMicheal Gallery and the Sobey Foundation.