Dark Matter, 2025
Rajni Perera (b. 1985, Dehiwela, Sri Lanka) lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She holds a B.F.A. in Drawing & Painting from Ontario College of Art & Design.
Solo and two-person exhibitions include Dhum Lōkaya, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA (forthcoming); Efflorescence / The Way We Wake, two-person with Marigold Santos, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (2025); Efflorescence / The Way We Wake, two-person with Marigold Santos, PHI Foundation, Montreal (2024); Phylogeny, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal (2023); The Vessel With Two Mouths, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2023).
Group exhibitions include POWER, OCADU Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2024); Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2022); Relations: Diaspora & Painting, The Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada (2021); Made of Honey, Gold & Marigold, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Ontario, Canada (2020); Believe, The Museum Of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada (2018).
She participated in the 16th Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2025); the Toronto Biennial of Art, Canada (2024); the Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2021); the Banlieue! Triennial, Quebec (2018); and the Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka (2016).
Perera’s work is in numerous public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Sobey Foundation, and the Musée De Beaux Arts De Montréal.