Sean Perry creates atmospheric portraits of the built environment across Texas, New York, and Japan.
His photographs and books are held in permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; The Menil Collection; Seattle Art Museum; Harry Ransom Center; Yale University; and The Wittliff Collections. Transitory (2006) and Fairgrounds (2008), both published by Cloverleaf Press, were featured as case studies in Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011/2014). A finalist for the Hasselblad Masters Award, his work has been commissioned by The New York Times Magazine, Billboard, and New York. His major series Monolith (2006–2018) comprises eighty photographs of Manhattan.
Current projects include Fairgrounds: Box Set (2025), The Erwin Portfolio (with work in the 2025 AMoA Biennial), and The Floating City, an ongoing series in Japan.
