Pérez has curated numerous shows featuring Chicana art, including Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas, Labor+a(r)t+orio: Bay Area Latina@ Arts Now, and UC Berkeley’s first and only Latina/o Performance Art series. Pérez is the author of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities. Her writing focuses on Chicana/o and hemispheric decolonial cultures, particularly on decolonial aesthetics and decolonial spiritualities. A forthcoming book, Ero-Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial will be published by Duke University Press.