Patricia Perry was born in Detroit. When she was 19, her family moved to Europe. She lived in Bad Homburg, Germany and studied at the Goethe Institut in Kochel am See before moving to Paris for a year and enrolling at the American College in Paris.
Moved by the works of Goya, Rembrandt, Turner and Blake which she saw in museums, she enrolled as an art student at UCLA after returning to the U.S. There she studied under Richard Diebenkorn, Irving Petlin, and Jan Stussy, receiving a B.A in Fine Art. (read more)
