Sarah Hollis Perry (sculpture) holds a B.A. in History of Art from Smith College and a Diploma and a Fifth Year Certificate from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, winning a Traveling Scholarship in 2000. While completing her studies, she was awarded prizes in sculpture, printmaking and papermaking. She has taught papermaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and has appeared as visiting artist at the Louisiana Tech University School of Art and at the Ellis School in Pittsburgh. Perry's work was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2001 and in one-person exhibits at Smith College Alumnae Gallery in 1999, in the Louisiana Tech Art Gallery and the E.J.Bellocq Gallery (Ruston, Louisiana) in 2000 and 2008. She has appeared in numerous group shows and held a residency at the Millay Colony in Austerliz New York, where she was named Nancy Graves fellow for 2004. Recently, Perry has been working with surveyor's tape and recycled plastic newspaper delivery bags, knitting sweaters for trees. Her outdoor installations have been seen at the Brockton, (Massachusetts) Fuller Museum exhibit "Trashformations" (2005), the Guilford, (Connecticut) Art Center's exhibit "(re)-- creation," (2005) and at the Boston Children's Museum exhibit "Dirty Dozen" (2008.)

With her daughter, Rachel Perry Welty, Perry collaborated on a video installation at First Night Boston (2007), collaborative video and performance at Santa Fe Art Institute (2005) and at Louisiana Tech University School of Art (2008.) Perry and Welty have
two permanent installations in the Tisch Library at Tufts University.