Todd Gray
American; born Los Angeles, CA, born 1954
Todd Gray (b. 1954, Los Angeles, CA) works in photography, performance and sculpture. Gray’s recent solo and group exhibitions include J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; David Lewis, New York, NY; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, CA; Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; National Portrait Gallery, London,UK; Grand Palais, Paris, France; MAKCenter for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2017); Hammer Museum, Made in L.A. Biennial, Los Angeles, CA and Whitney Biennial, NY. Gray's work is represented in numerous museum collections including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Houston Fine Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; among others. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Fellowship in 2016, among others. Gray has presented this work in academic conferences at Yale and Harvard University. Gray works between Los Angeles and Ghana, where he explores the diasporic dislocations and cultural connections which link Western hegemony with West Africa.
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American, born Italy, 1887 - 1948