Sondra Perry was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1986. Perry holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Alfred University. In 2015, Perry was a panelist at Black Artists on Social Media at the Brooklyn Museum, NY. The artist was a 2021 Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts at Yale University and has also participated in residencies at Oxbow, the Experimental Television Center, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Perry lives and works in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.