Opening Reception for Alana Perino: 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner

Join us for the opening reception of Alana Perino: 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner. Hosted by Leica Gallery New York, this exhibition presents Alana Perino’s Pictures of Birds, the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize–winning series.

Alana Perino’s Pictures of Birds constructs a mesmeric evocation of memory and mortality in Longboat Key, Florida, where Perino temporarily moved in 2020 to be with their father and stepmother, whose health was in decline. Here, family roles were rewritten as Perino and their sister became their stepmother’s caretakers, and the series reflects on the strange experience of living in “a home and a retirement community arranged to affirm health and security yet compromised by the ubiquity of illness and impermanence.” Perino has created an expansive family portrait that captures a time and place suspended between memory and mortality.

Please join us in celebrating Perino and their award-winning series.

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Alana Perino (born in New York, 1988) is an artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Their practice, which spans photography, sculpture, performance, and autofiction, is concerned with home, the nature of belonging, and perceptions of the self. Their work has been exhibited and published by Aperture, Lenscratch, LensCulture, and Palm Studios, among others. They are assistant professor at Johnson & Wales University, Providence.

The Aperture Portfolio Prize aims to spotlight new talent in photography, identifying contemporary trends in the field and highlighting artists whose work deserves greater recognition. Perino’s work, chosen from an outstanding number of submissions, is published with an essay by Eli Cohen in the Summer 2025 issue of Aperture magazine.

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Image: Alana Perino, Bay Isles Private Beach, 2020; from the series Pictures of Birds