Louie Perea (b. 1999, Santa Fe, NM) is a visual artist and photographer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Their work uses photography to explore otherness and representation through Black queer and diasporic experience. Perea is interested in reclaiming images and the camera from colonial ways of seeing, using tenderness as a form of resistance. Their practice moves between fine art and commissioned photography, with portraiture at its center.

In 2026, Perea presented the solo exhibition (An)Other: As If I Didn’t Know My Name at CCA Cinema Gallery. Their work was shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 167 and selected as a finalist for the Lucie Foundation Open Call. Their commissioned photography has appeared in Pitchfork, The Cut and El País, with recent work including portraits of Lucrecia Dalt. Perea holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Psychology from the University of New Mexico.