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This image depicts an artwork by Todd Gray titled "Stairway to Heaven’s Hell (St. Anthony Slave Castle / Santa Maria Basilica)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 38 ¹⁄₄" x 51 ¹⁄₈" x 2 ³⁄₄" [HxWxD] (97.16 x 129.87 x 6.99 cm). Its medium is Archival pigment prints in artist's frames, UV laminate.
Todd Gray
“Stairway to Heaven’s Hell (St. Anthony Slave Castle / Santa Maria Basilica),” 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Todd Gray titled "House of the Wannsee (Slippin’ into Darkness)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 49 ¹⁄₈" x 56 ¹⁄₂" x 5" [HxWxD] (124.79 x 143.51 x 12.7 cm). Its medium is Archival pigment prints in artist's frames, UV laminate.
Todd Gray
“House of the Wannsee (Slippin’ into Darkness),” 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Todd Gray titled "On Pointe (Grotesques)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 46 ⁵⁄₈" x 34 ¹⁄₂" x 3" [HxWxD] (118.44 x 87.63 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Archival pigment prints in artist's frames, UV laminate.
Todd Gray
“On Pointe (Grotesques),” 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Todd Gray titled "Rome Work (Niobe and her Chirren)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 45" x 108"  x 4 ³⁄₄" [HxWxD] (114.3 x 274.32 x 12.06 cm). Its medium is Archival pigment prints in artist's frames, UV laminate.
Todd Gray
“Rome Work (Niobe and her Chirren),” 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Todd Gray titled "Gorée Sienna | Medici Brown." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 46 ¹⁄₂" x 39 ¹⁄₂" x 2 ¹⁄₄" [HxWxD] (118.11 x 100.33 x 5.71 cm). Its medium is Archival pigment prints in artist's frames, UV laminate.
Todd Gray
“Gorée Sienna | Medici Brown,” 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Todd Gray titled "When we opened our eyes we had the Bible and they had the Land #2." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 41 ¹⁄₄" x 31 ¹⁄₈" x 2 ¹⁄₄" [HxWxD] (104.78 x 79.07 x 5.72 cm). Its medium is Acrylic paint on archival pigment prints in artist's frames, UV laminate.
Todd Gray
“When we opened our eyes we had the Bible and they had the Land #2,” 2023

b.

1954
Los Angeles, CA

Education

1989
MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1979
BFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024
Solo, Galerie Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway (forthcoming)
2023
"Rome Work," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"On Point," Lehmann Maupin, London, UK
2022
"Atlantic lullabies, Other tellings," David Lewis, East Hampton, NY
2021
"the hidden order of the whole," David Lewis, New York, NY
"Crossing the Waters of Space, Time, and History," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
"Todd Gray / MATRIX 186," Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2019
"Cartesian Gris Gris," David Lewis, New York, NY
Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (cat.)
2018
"Todd Gray: Pluralities of Being," Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
"Portraits," Melikseitan | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2017
"My Life in the Bush with MJ and Iggy," Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
"Pluralities of Being," Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016
"A Place That Looks Like Home," Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (cat.)
"Time Machine, Hippie Dandy," Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2015
"Caliban in the Mirror 2.0: Exquisite Terribleness," Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2014
"Exquisite Terribleness," Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"The Gray Room," Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010
"Spirit Shack (with Kyungmi Shin)," See Line Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2005
"Todd Gray, Shaman," Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY
2004
"Todd Gray: Immaculate," Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"The World Made Wondrous," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Afro-Atlantic Histories," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
"Claiming the Narrative," Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, NJ
2021
"Black American Portraits," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
"Mining The Archive," Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
"Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA," The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"TELL ME YOUR STORY: Storytelling in African American Art, From the Harlem Renaissance to the Present," curated by Rob Purrée, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2019
"ec·dy·sis," curated by Shirley Morales, ltd los angeles at CASSTL and Antwerp Art Pavillion, Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, BE
"Whitney Biennial," curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat.)
"Mapping Black Identities," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
"A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2018-2019
"Michael Jackson: On the Wall," curated by Nicholas Cullinan, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; traveling to Grand Palais, Paris, France; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; and the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland (cat.)
2018
"The Assassination of Leon Trotsky," David Lewis, New York, NY
"Public Fiction: The Conscientious Objector," curated by Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey and Lauren Mackler, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2016
"Made In LA: a, the, though, only," curated by Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
2015
"Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity," Maier Art Museum, Randolph College, VA
"Black Portraitures{S} li: Imagining the Black Body and Re-Stagging Histories," symposium presented by Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Florence, Italy
"Cry Me A River, Etoile Polaire Lodge #1," New Orleans, LA
"Manifest Justice," pop-up exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2014
"Freeway Studies #2: Inside the Quad," curated by Meg Linton, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Gettin’ off the Ground," curated by Isabelle Lutterodt, Angeles Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2013
"Go Tell It on the Mountain," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community," USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Refocus: Multicultural Focus," Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
2011
"The Bearden Project," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Posing Beauty," curated by Deborah Willis, Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
2010
"From My Universe, Object of Desire," See Line Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
"Contemporary Art From the Douglas Nielsen Collection," Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2009
"Black Is Black Ain’t," curated by Hamza Walker, Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit, MI (cat.)
"Oz, New Offerings From Los Angeles," Instituto Cultural Cabana, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Posing Beauty," curated by Deborah Willis, Gulf + Western Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY
2008
"Black Is Black Ain’t," curated by Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (cat.)
"Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting visual Artists in LA," curated by Rita Gonzalez and Kris Kuramitsu, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture," curated by Tyler Stallings, CAlifornia Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
"PIX, Some Recent Photos From The Post-Filmic Era," curated by Kristina Newhouse, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
"This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs," curated by Claudia Bohn- Spector and Jennifer Watts, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
2007
“Celebrity," curated by Marily Knode, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; traveled to Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
"Blacks In and Out of the Box," curated by Lisa Henry California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006
"Brave New World," curated by Heather Harmon and Nicole Dungao, Pharmaka Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Gray, Korfmann, Youngblood: New Forms in Photography," Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
"Framing the Triangle," curated by Deborah Willis, Goethe Institute, Accra, Ghana
2004
"Fade, 1990-2003, African American Art in Los Angeles," L.A. Cultural Affairs Department, Luckman Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angles, CA
2001
"Committed to the Image," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
"Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California," The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA

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2022
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2016
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2015
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2001
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Exhibition Catalogues and Publications

2019
McGrew, Rebecca. Todd Gray: "Euclidean Gris Gris." Claremont: Pomona College Museum of Art
Hockley, Rujeko and Panetta, Jane. "Whitney Biennial 2019." New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
2018
Cullinan, Nicholas, ed. "Michael Jackson: On the Wall'. London: National Portrait Gallery.
2016
Moshayedi , Aram. "Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only." Munich: Prestel Publishing.
2013
Copeland, Huey, Darby English, Greg Foster-Rice, Amy M. Mooney, Kymberly N. Pinder, Krista Thompson, Hamza Walker, and Kenneth Warren. "Black Is, Black Ain’t." Chicago: The Renaissance Society.
2009
Gray, Todd. "Michael Jackson: Before He Was King." San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
2004
Henger, Sue, ed. "Todd Gray: Immaculate." Los Angeles: Luckman Gallery.
2000
Barron, Stephanie, Sheri Bernstein, Ilene Susan Fort, Howard N. Fox. "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000". Berkeley: University of California Press.

Selected Talks, Lectures and Panels

2021
Artist Talk: Todd Gray / MATRIX 186, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, March 8 Panel Discussion: Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, May 12
2016
The Poetic Research Bureau presents. Todd Gray, October 15
2011
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, “Caliban in the Mirror”, New Orleans, LA
2005
Luckman Gallery, “Immaculate” gallery talk New York University, Accra, Ghana, Visiting Artist
2004
Yale University, “Regarding Michael Jackson: Performing Racial, Gender, and Sexual Difference Center Stage Academy of Media Arts, (Kunsthochschule fur Medien) Cologne, Germany, Visiting Artist
2002
Academy of Media Arts, (Kunsthochschule fur Medien) Cologne, Germany, Visiting Artist Claremont Graduate School, Visiting Artist
2001
Academy of Media Arts, (Kunsthochschule fur Medien) Cologne, Germany, Visiting Artist The Public + Artist Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A.
California Community Foundation – J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts and Brody Arts Fund panelist for the selection of Individual Artist Awards
1998
MOCA Mentors Program, presenter, Los Angeles
1997
The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, "Photographic Lecture and Workshop Series" “Sunday Family Art Workshops with Todd Gray", MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
“Day Without Art", CSULB, organizer and participant
Education video: “Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection” Family Gallery MOCA
“Introduction to Professional Careers in the Arts" seminar, Community Arts Resources for the Getty Multicultural Summer Interns, The Getty Grant Program, Los Angeles, CA
1996
University of California, San Diego, Artist Lecture Series Oakland Museum of Art, "the present (h)our", artist lecture series University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA
“Stream of Consciousness: Eight Los Angeles Artists", artist lecture The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, artist lecture series
1995
Armand Hammer Museum, “Laurie Brown and Todd Gray, exhibiting artists in the Contemporary Photography: The California Focus" at the art rental and sales Gallery.
Society for Photographic Education, National Conference, Atlanta, presenting artist, “Michael Jackson Reconsidered".
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "P.L.A.N. Artist Panel"
Pomona College, Claremont, Media Arts Lecture Series
Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, panelist, “Creating Context" Panelist: City of Los Angeles Cultural Grants Program, Photography
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, exhibitions committee
1994
Friends of Photography Annual Members Workshop, San Francisco Panelist: City of Los Angeles Cultural Grants Program, Photography State University of New York, Albany, Artist Lecture Series
Santa Monica Museum of Art Salon Presents: Todd Gray
1993
University of California, Los Angeles, Artist Lecture Series
L. A. Art Fair, "The Kitchen Table", Eugenia P. Butler, moderator
1992
University of California, Irvine, "Convergence", Pat Ward Williams, moderator. L. A. Art Fair, "L. A. Xtension Artist Panel"
1991
Panelist: Regional Individual Photography Grants, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA
1990
Los Angeles Photography Center: The Visual Statement
1988
Todd Gray: Personal Myths, Columbia College Chicago Photography Department Lecture Series Panelist: Society for Photographic Education, National Conference, Deborah Willis, moderator, Houston, TX

Performances

2018
"Another Part of Me," University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD 2017
"Iggy Pop Tried to Kill Me," Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angles, CA
2010
"Caliban in the Mirror,” with Max King Cap, Roy & Edna Disney Cal/Arts Theater (REDCAT), Los Angeles, CA
2009
“Water," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2008
"Akwidaa: Kumasi, Shrines and Masquerades Live!," 80WSE, New York University, New York, NY
“Afrotronic," with Giavanni Washington, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Akwidaa Mangroove, with Michael Grodsky," 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica CA
2007
"Sonic Love Wave," New Renaissance Theater, Syracuse, NY
2004
"Look Me In The Eye," Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2003
"Art Church," The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA Public Art Commissions
2018
Metro (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority), Los Angeles, CA
2012
CIM Urban Real Assets, Midtown Crossing, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles International Airport, Video Installation, with Joseph Santarromana
2009
Los Angeles International Airport
2004
Los Angeles Fire Station #43, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Residencies & Studio Programs

2023
Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2016
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, Bellagio, Italy
2015
Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, Englewood, FL

Awards & Grants

2022
Rome Prize for Visual Arts
2018
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts
2016
Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation
2007
Public Art Commission: Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2006
SCAC, Assigned Time release, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
2005
Sabbatical, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, connected to J. Paul Getty Trust Fund
2004
SCAC, Assigned Time release, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) Public Art Commission, Los Angeles Fire Station #43, City of Los Angeles Pasadena Art Alliance Grant for “Immaculate” Exhibition Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant, The Furfee Foundation
2003
SCAC, Assigned Time release, California State University, Long Beach, CA (CSULB)
2001
SCAC, Assigned Time release, CSULB Associate Professor, CSULB
2000
Assigned time release, Caliifornia State Univesity, Long BEACH, CA (CSULB)
1999
Public Art Commissions: Jefferson Branch Library, and Baldwin Hills Branch Library
1997
City of Los Angeles Individual Art is Grant
1991
Art Center College of Design, Pasedena - Great Teacher’s Award
1988
Wasserman Scholarship (CalArts), Valencia, CA

Public Collections

Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art/LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art/MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT
University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY