Academic:
2012 MFA Painting Summa Cum Laude-Honorary Distinction, Pratt Institute.
2010 BFA Painting Cum Laude, Texas Christian University.
Grants/Awards:
2021- Board Member- Friends of the TCU Library, Texas Christian University.
- 2nd Place Winner- Drawing- 8th Annual Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society Juried Exhibit.
-Visiting Artist- Kimbell Art Museum.
2020-TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library Permanent Art Collection.
-$5,000 Grand-Finalist Grant Recipient- Bass Family- The New Normal: An Artist’s Response to COVID-19.
2018- Gallery Manager/ Curator- Funky Town Festival Gallery.
2017- Visual Arts Ambassador- Fort Worth Funky Town Foundation.
2010- Pratt Institute Merit Scholarship.
2010- TCU Scholar.
2009- TCU Deans List.
2009- TCU Honours Society Art and Design.
2009- Samuel. P. Ziegler Scholarship.
Interviews:
2021- What Does It Mean to be Visible? Find Out For YourseIf At Exhibition of 17 Asian and AAPI Artists- Elizabeth Myong, Dallas KERA NPR.
- What Gains Have Been Made in a Year of Loss?- Panel speaker- State of the Arts- KERA NPR & Kimbell Art Museum.
Solo Exhibitions:
2017- DJ Perera, Creative Arts Lounge, Fort Worth, Texas.
2013- DJ Perera: Reductive Reasoning, Art Corridors II, Arlington, Texas.
2012- Black Tranquility, EastOne Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
Of Ammi and Thathi: In Homage: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Steuben Gallery Brooklyn, New York.
2010- Elidarawwa, EastOne Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
DJ Perera, Third Space Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Untitled, Fort Worth Community Arts Centre, Fort Worth, Texas.
Group Exhibitions:
2021- The New Normal: An Artists’ Response to COVID-19 Fort Worth, Texas.
Representation, Identity, and Diversity, Black Historical and Genealogical Society, Fort Worth, Texas.
2018- Shared Time: Then & Now, Ro2Art Ervay Gallery Dallas, Texas.
2017- Chaos, Ro2Art Ervay Gallery Dallas, Texas.
28 grams, Fort Works Art Fort Worth, Texas.
2016- Fort Worth Abroad, The Brick Fort Worth, Texas.
2015- Chaos, Ro2Art Downtown Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Educators Evidence, Fort Worth Community Arts Centre, Fort Worth, Texas.
2014- Dallas Art Fair, Ro2Art Downtown Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2013- TCC Faculty Show, Northwest Lakeview Galleries, Fort Worth, Texas.
Texas Art Now, Fort Worth Community Arts Centre, Fort Worth, Texas.
Paint: Into the 21st Century, Ro2Art Downtown Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Chaos, Ro2ArtDowntown Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Night and Day, Third Space Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2011- Fracture, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
Welcome: MFA Exhibition, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
2010- Layers, Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn New York.
Welcome: MFA Exhibition, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
ArtSlam: Student work by the Honours Art and Design Society, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
Ahoy: Senior BFA Exhibition, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
19th Annual Crosstalk: Student Exhibition, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
2009- Daimler Chrysler, DCFS Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
Ofeno Group Exhibition, Landers Machine Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
ArtSlam: TCU Honours Art and Design Society, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
Tension: A Show of Emerging Artists in Texas, Weisenberger Gallery Fort Worth, Texas.
1st Annual ArtOrg Exhibition, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.