ABOUT PEREZ

Karol Perez (she/they) is a designer based in North Carolina creating dynamic print and digital media for brands, organizations, and institutions. Perez graduated from Appalachian State University, majoring in Graphic Design with a minor in Art History. Perez has worked in print production, freelance design, and as an intern at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

As a Mexican-American artist, Perez’s work is deeply influenced by Mexican culture, movements and the designs that fuel them - particularly inspired by the Chicano posters. Perez is also interested in other design movements including brutalism and “anti-design.” Their designs play with texture, legibility, and movement, examining notions of identity and culture. Through warping and scanning, appropriation of found media, and bilingual translation, their designs are equally dizzying and compelling. Perez aspires to work with and for BIPOC and multilingual design spaces and art museums, and aims to create graphics that are both subversive and revolutionary.
“I carry my culture wherever I go - that’s why I aspire to be a role model for Mexican-Americans in the art world. Whether through working in a design studio, the prints I make in riso or screen-print, or putting the spotlight on Chicano or BIPOC artists in a museum setting . I want them to see me as proof that our community can thrive and succeed in the arts.”