Contemporary Swiss artist Carmen Perrin was born in Bolivia in 1953. In 1960, her father, filmmaker Alberto Perrin, decided to go into exile from Bolivia, moving their whole family to Switzerland. She carried out all of her schooling and artistic studies in Geneva, graduating from the School of Fine Arts of Geneva in 1981. In 1986 she began teaching at the institution. Later that same year, Perrin participated in an exhibition at the Cantini Museum in Marseille, where she lived and worked for eight years. In 1993 she obtained a grant from the Landys and Gyr Foundation, which allowed her to live and work for a year in London. She later stayed there for two years. She currently lives and works in Geneva.

Since the 1980s, Perrin has established herself as a sculptural visual artist. From the 1990s onwards, she began to work in an increasingly close relationship in architectural and
landscape contexts. Her work delves into the relationships between light, the materials she uses, as well as the social and architectural qualities of public life and space. 

She stopped teaching in 2005 to devote herself entirely to her artistic career. Mentoring, educating, and sharing art with younger generations has been an important part of her career. In 2011, she received a second grant from the Landys and Gyr Foundation for a six-month residency in Berlin.

In 2014 she was appointed a member of the Patronage Committee of the Distinction Romande Architecture (with Daniel Berset, federal councilor, Philippe Biéler, central president of Swiss Heritage, and Werner Jeker, graphic designer).

With a career spanning several decades, Carmen Perrin has established herself as a prominent figure in the world of contemporary Swiss art. Currently, she works on projects related to public space and conducts research that closely links the practice of sculpture and drawing.

https://carmenperrin.com