Born 1958 in La Paz (Bilivia), lives and works in Switzerland and France.

Although Carmen Perrin spent most of her childhood in Geneva, she is deeply rooted in her home country, Bolivia. In 1980, the artist gained her diploma at the Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, where she would later become a professor (1989-2004) In 1982, she exhibited at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, 2 years later at the Maison de la culture, Grenoble. Her work, which considerably influenced the further development of the sculpture in Switzerland from the mid-80ies, has a transcultural background. It challenged European cultural conventions and is full of subtle undertones referring to her Latin-American origins. Perrin likes to use industrially manufactured materials - electrical wires, cables, construction material or ceramics, translating them with a multi-variance pictorial language. Her works deal with light and transparency, she first tries porcelain and glaze mixes. Her sculptural activities activate the surroundings. They combine the material and the immaterial into a new intensive tangibleness which largely transgresses the boundaries of the formal. By treating the surface of her works, the artist lends them an aesthetic expression of her own - and distinguishes herself from all those tendencies since Arte Povera, that deal with found materials, in order to document their link with everyday life. She treats surfaces in order to draw a line between the living environment, its materials and her art production. She has left behind the classic ideal of the closed volume. She uses plastic and sheet steel for her individual moulds of which she designs series. She creates serial or grid forms which rotate, camber or which she stretches, and in which movement is interpreted as a phenomenon. In 1995, she displayed her works in the Museum of Modern Art in Hongkong. In 1985 and 2009, she was awarded the Irène Reymond Foundation Prize, in 1988, the Manor Art Prize, and in 1989, the Trigon Prize ‘89 in Graz. In 1992, she was awarded the Prize of Honor for sculptures by the International Biennial of Cairo. The artist is internationally very successful and exhibits in cities such as Sao Paulo, Barcelona, Basel and Zurich.