C. Harold Perkins is a sculptor, fabricator, furniture maker, and educator whose work is grounded in material, labor, and lived experience. Raised in Maine and shaped by time on the farm, in the Marine Corps, the trades, and on the rugby pitch, he approaches the act of making not as object creation but as an act of confrontation—between body and material, history and site, viewer and space. His performances and sculptural installations strip down meanings to mechanics, asking not what something represents, but how it means.

He earned his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Michigan State University and a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Southern Maine. Across institutions like Indiana University and Roane State Community College, he has taught drawing, painting, fabrication, casting, and installation—emphasizing technical fluency alongside critical agency. Currently, he serves as Assistant Professor and Sculpture Technologist at Michigan State University, where his teaching prioritizes conceptual rigor, interdisciplinary exchange, and student autonomy through hands-on, materially engaged practice.

Perkins’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally—in galleries, on streets, and in fields—including Framed, a years-long public performance spanning multiple states, and the upcoming solo exhibition Incongruous in Windsor, Ontario. A recipient of multiple honors, he continues to interrogate the ethics of form, authorship, and labor in contemporary practice.