Sigrira Perret-Gentil received her MFA in Photography from Georgia State University in 2003 and a BA in Psychology from Emory University in 1996. She grew up in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, and at age twelve moved to the American South with her family. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Dutch and Papiamentu.

Sigrira has been actively exhibiting her work nationally and locally. Recent Atlanta exhibits include In the Kitchen at Marcia Wood Gallery, Skin and Fur at Eyedrum Gallery and Pink Days, Azure Nights at the Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College. The body of work she showed at Dalton Gallery was described by Jerry Cullum in the Atlanta Journal Constitution as “ Both deeper and more lyrical, Sigrira Perret-Gentil’s grid of color photographs form an exquisite evocation of childhood haunts revisited in Curacao. The tinge of sadness at present day decay is intensified by the half-century-old photos she has reprinted from slides and sealed in glass jars.”(Cullum, Jerry. “Colorful Mélange Blends Well” Atlanta Journal Constitution, Sunday, March 12th, 2006.L3.)

Her work can be found in private collections and an excerpt from her thesis may be viewed online as part of the Animality Monograph which she was invited to be a part of.

http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~broglio/animality/18lives.html

Sigrira has been teaching photography at Oglethorpe University since 2005 and prior to that she also taught at Georgia State University and Emory University.

" My Strawberry Shortcake Chair" copyright Sigrira Perret-Gentil, 2006

To see more images from Sigrira's Janthiel Series (Curacao images) please click on Images.