Avery Perkins

Email: averypjpg@gmail.com
Instagram: @averyp.jpg

Education
  • 2025 Columbia College Chicago Photography BA 
    Integrated Concentration (Fine Art and Fashion Focus)

Career Experience
  • 2023 - Present Diane Dammeyer Initiative Assistant 
  • 2023 - Present Lighting Studio & Darkroom Work Aide
  • 2022 - Present Freelance Photographer
  • 2022 - Present Photographer’s Assistant

Community Workshop Teaching
  • 2023 Centro Romero, Youth Photography Workshops, Rogers Park, Chicago, IL

Curatorial Practice
  • 2025 Noble Schools Art Fair, Chicago, IL
  • 2025 Photo Club Table, Columbia College Chicago Inkfest
  • 2024 Columbia College Chicago Manifest Festival Print Swap
  • 2024 Marlon West: Ink Tributes, Chicago, IL
  • 2024 Noble Schools Art Fair, Chicago, IL

Install Assistance
  • 2025 Noble Schools Art Fair, Chicago Bulls Prep, Chicago, IL
  • 2025 Conveying Migration Stories, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
  • 2024 Borders Cruzedas, Wil Sands and Oscar B. Castillo, South Loop and Rogers Park Chicago, IL
  • 2024 Noble Schools Art Fair, Chicago Bulls Prep, Chicago, IL
  • 2024 Pretty Odd Town, Home Exhibition Pop Up, Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL

Professional Photography Assistance
  • 2025 Sieanna Rowe - Attention in 2006
  • 2025 Sieanna Rowe - Diego 2/6/25
  • 2025 Sieanna Rowe - No One Noticed
  • 2024 Sieanna Rowe - Juicebox
  • 2024 Sieanna Rowe - Sweet Hudson - The Cure Album Cover,  Photographic Promotional Materials, and Music Video  
  • 2023 Sieanna Rowe - Fruit Stand
  • 2023 Sieanna Rowe - Kool Thing
  • 2023 Sieanna Rowe - Listerine
  • 2023 Sieanna Rowe - Superdime - Photographic Promotional Materials
  • 2023 Sieanna Rowe - 韩 - Zhao Di Fashion Design School of the Art Institute Project Photographic Materials and Art Direction for Short Film

Group Exhibitions
  • 2025 Between Here and There, The Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2025 ManiFest Arts Festival, Chicago, IL