Lincoln Perry (born 1949 in New York City) is an American visual artist and author most well known as a muralist.
[2] Perry currently serves as the distinguished visiting artist at the UVA where he was commissioned to create a very large twelve-panel mural in the McKim, Mead, and White designed Cabell Hall on the University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson designed campus, the title of which is The Student's Progress.
[3] Pablo Picasso, Balthus, Paolo Veronese, Giambattista Tiepolo, and Gustave Courbet have been cited as being amongst his influences.
[4][5] Perry is the author of the books Lincoln Perry's Charlottesville (UVA Press 2006[6]) and Seeing Like an Artist: What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others (David R. Godine 2022[7]).
[10] Perry is married to the novelist Ann Beattie whom he met when they were both teaching at the University of Virginia.