Lincoln Perry (born 1949 in New York City) is an American visual artist and author most well known as a muralist.^[1]

He is married to the novelist Ann Beattie whom he met when they were both teaching at the University of Virginia.^[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]

He lives part of the year in Southern Maine.^[6]

Perry is the author of the books Lincoln Perry's Charlottesville (UVA Press 2006^[7]) and Seeing Like an Artist: What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others (David R. Godine 2022^[8]).^[9] Perry is also a contributing writer to The American Scholar.^[10] In addition he has written for other journals such as Painters on Paintings.^[11] Perry has also created sculptures including several series done in terracotta.^[12]