About
Todd Gray (b. 1954, Los Angeles, CA) works in photography, performance and sculpture. 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. In 2022 The American Academy in Rome announced Todd Gray as one of the winners of the prestigious 2022–23 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. 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.
CONTACT
STUDIO: studio@toddgrayla.com / IG: @toddgrayla
GALLERY: David Lewis | 57 Walker St, New York, NY 10013 | 212.966.7990 / Email /
Lehmann Maupin | 501 W. 24th St, New York, NY 10011 | 212.255.2923
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EDUCATION
1989 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA., M.F.A.
1979 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA., B.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 On Point, Lehmann Maupin, London, England
Rome Work, Vielmetter Los Angeles, L.A., CA
2022 Atlantic lullabies, Other tellings David Lewis East Hampton
2021 Todd Gray: Crossing the Waters of Space, Time, and History, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI
the hidden order of the whole, David Lewis, NY
Todd Gray / MATRIX 186, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2019 Cartesian Gris Gris, David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
2018 Portraits, Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
Pluralities of Being, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, 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 Time Machine: Hippie Dandy, Melikstetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
Todd Gray, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
2015 Caliban in the Mirror: 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, See Line Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2005 Todd Gray, Shaman, Pablo’s Birthday, NY
2004 Todd Gray: Immaculate, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
2003 Media Tower, Pasadena City College, CA
2002 Todd Gray, Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, State University
1996 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Afro-Atlantic Histories, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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, curated by jill moniz, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, CA
Things…Things Fall Apart, David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Constellation, David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
TO BOUGH AND TO BEND, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA
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
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 Michael Jackson: On the Wall, curated by Nicholas Cullinan, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, travels to Paris, France, Bonn, Germany and Espoo, Finland through 2019
The Assassination of Leon Trotsky, David Lewis Gallery, 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 a, the, though, only, Made in LA 2016, curated by Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Art Museum, Randolph College, Virginia
Above/Below/Within, Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
Cry Me A River, Etoile Polaire Lodge #1, New Orleans, LA.
Caliban in the Mirror, 2.0, Samson Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Black Portraitures{S} Ii: Imaging The Black Body And Re-Staging Histories, symposium presented by NYU / Tisch School of the Arts, Florence, Italy
Manifest Justice, pop-up exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Freeway Studies #2: Inside the Quad, Ben Maltz Gallery, curated by Meg Linton, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles
Racial Imaginary, Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
Exquisite Terribleness, Meliksetian | Briggs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gettin’ off the Ground, curated by Isabelle Lutterodt, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2013 Go Tell It on the Mountain, California African American Museum, Los Angeles
2012 Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Refocus: Multicultural Focus, Arena 1, Santa Monica
2011 The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Newark Art Museum, Figge Art Museum
2010 From My Universe, Objects of Desire, See Line Gallery, West Hollywood
Contemporary Art From The Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
2009 Black Is Black Ain’t, Detroit Museum of Art
Oz, New Offerings From Los Angeles, Instituto Cultural Cabaña, Guadalajara , Mexico
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, NYU Tisch, Gulf+Western Gallery, New York
2008 Black Is Black Ain’t, curated by Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, travels
Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Visual Artists L. A., curated by Rita Gonzalez and Kris Kuramitsu, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, curated by Tyler Stallings, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
PIX, Some Recent Photos From The Post-Filmic Era, curated by Kristina Newhouse, Torrance Art Museum, CA
This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs, curated by Caudia Bohn-Spector and Jennifer Watts, Huntington Library, San Marino
2007 Celebrity, curated by Marilu Knode, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
Blacks in and out of the Box, curated by Lisa Henry California Afro-American Museum, L.A., CA
2006 Gray, Korfmann, Youngblood: New Forms in Photography, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles
Brave New World, curated by Heather Harmon and Nicole Dungao, Pharmaka Art, Los Angeles
2005 Framing the Triangle, curated by Deb Willis, Goethe Institute, Accra, Ghana
2004 Fade, 1990-2003, African American Art in Los Angeles, L. A. Cultural Affairs Department, Luckman Gallery, CSULA
2001 Committed to the Image, Brooklyn Museum of Art, N. Y.
Beyond Boundaries Contemporary Photography in California, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco
2000 Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
American Dreams, 6th International Triennale, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
A History of African American Photographers, Smithsonian
1998 Mouse: An American Icon, Alternative Museum, New York "Presumed Innocence”, Anderson Gallery of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.,
travels to: Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH
City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Grant Recipients, L. A. Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park
1997 Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Spheres of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1996 Man's World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Present (H)our, Oakland Art Museum, CA.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
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.
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 Angeles,
2010 Caliban in the Mirror, Roy & Edna Disney Cal/Arts Theater, REDCAT, Los Angeles (with Max King Cap)
2009 Water, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
2008 Akwidaa:Kumasi, Shrines and Masqueradess Live! New York University, N.Y.
Afrotronic with Giavanni Washington, Japanese American National Museum
Akwidaa Mangroove, 18th St. Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA. (with Michael Grodsky)
2007 Sonic Love Wave, New Renaissance Theater, Syracuse, N.Y
2004 Look Me In The Eye, Academy of Media Arts, (Kunsthochschule fur Medien) Cologne, Germany
2003 Art Church, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles
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
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022 Rome Prize, The American Academy in Rome
2018 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts
2016 Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation
2007 Public Art Commission: Los Angeles International Airport, Video Installation, City of Los Angeles
2006 SCAC, Assigned Time release, CSULB
2005 Sabbatical, CSULB
California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, connected to J. Paul Getty Trust Fund
2004 SCAC, Assigned Time release, CSULB
Public Art Commission, L. A. Firestation #43, City of Los Angeles
Pasadena Art Alliance Grant for “Immaculate” Exhibition
Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation
2003 SCAC, Assigned Time release, CSULB
2001 SCAC, Assigned Time release, CSULB Associate Professor, CSULB
2000 Assigned Time release, CSULB
1999 Public Art Commissions: Jefferson Branch Library, and Baldwin Hills Branch
Library, City of Los Angeles
1997 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant
1991 Art Center College of Design - Great Teacher's Award
1988 Wasserman Scholarship (CalArts), Valencia, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Miranda, Carolina A. “Newsletter: Essential Arts: Todd Gray turns colonialism and the art of photography on its head”, March 13, 2021
2020 Cap, Max King. “Todd Gray: Diary in Fragments”, Artillery Magazine, Nov 10, 2020
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Ontiveros, Mario. X-TRA Artists and Rights, EPISODE 1: LIVING A LIFE WHILE DECOLONIZING THE MIND, July 7, 2020
Hosseini, Raheem. “Black artists from around the globe donate their work for online auction to help SF’s MoAD”, Datebook, San Francisco Chronicle, April 23, 2020
Diehl, Travis. “The Artist Remixing History, from French Gardens to the Cosmos.” Aperture, March 5.
“What I’ve learned: Belinda Tate, executive director of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.” Christie’s, March 5.
2019 Preston Zappas, Lindsay. “Episode 16: Todd Gray.” Contemporary Art Review.la, November 14.
Chiotakis, Steve. “Todd Gray explores colonialism in Africa and Europe through photos.” KCRW, November 13.
Naçi, Silvi. “Artists at Work: Todd Gray.” East of Borneo, November 4.
Crippa, Karin, “How gallerists choose artists for art fairs.” Art|Basel, October.
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“Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for Fall 2019.” Hyperallergic, September 10
Distefano, Alex. “Best of L.A. Arts: Fall Preview Pick: Todd Gray at Pomona College.” LAWeekly, August 27.
Speed, Mitch. “Todd Gray Visualizes the Labyrinth of Black Post-Colonial Identity.” Frieze, July 24.
Dubicki, Emilia. “New York City Spring 2019 Highlights.” The Woven Tale Press, June 18.
Well, Graham B. “Todd Gray: Cartesian Gris Gris.” The Brooklyn Rail, June.
Davis, Ben. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Shows America’s Artists Turning Toward Coded Languages in Turbulent Times.” Artnet News, May 20.
Cotter, Holland. “The Whitney Biennial: Young Art Cross-Stitched With Politics” The New York Times, May 16.
Kissick, Dean. “The Whitney Biennial Takes On The American Dream” Cultured Magazine, May 14.
Saltz, Jerry. “The New Whitney Biennial Made Me See Art History in a New Way” New York Magazine, May 14.
Durón, Maximilíano. “A Tour of the 2019 Whitney Biennial in 20 Photos” ARTnews, May 13.
Mitter, Siddhartha. “The Whitney Biennial Called. How Will They Answer?” The New York Times, May 9.
“Todd Gray at David Lewis, New York” ARTnews, May 8.
“From Exhibitions and Installations to Performances and Collaborations, We Bring You the 25 Most Important Events in Art, Design, Architecture, Fashion and Everything in Between.” Cultured Magazine. May/June.
Gelt, Jessica. “Mike Kelley Foundation grants: 10 winners split $400,000 to make daring art.” LA Times, April 11.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Todd Gray: Everything is Everywhere.” LA Weekly, March 8.
2018 Tilley, John Martin. “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Michael Jackson?.” Office Magazine, September 6.
“Todd Gray: Michael Jackson’s official photographer.” National Portrait Gallery, September 4.
Taft, Catherine.“Todd Gray.” Artforum, September.
Evans, Diana. “Michael Jackson, King of Pop Art.” The New York Review of Books, August 11.
“An Icon Celebrated.” Sotheby’s, July 23.
Mizota, Sharon. “Review: Photographer Todd Gray traces African roots.” Los Angeles Times, July 9.
Eckardt, Stephanie. “How Nearly 50 Artists’ Attempted to Do the Impossible: Illustrate Michael Jackson’s Enormous Influence and Legacy.” W Magazine, July 8.
Koerth, Katherina. “This is how artists saw Michael Jackson.” Spiegel Online, July 3.
Bradbury, Sarah. “On the wall: Michael Jackson’s impact on contemporary art, a decade after his death.”
Independent, June 28.
Lawless, Jill. “Exhibition explores Michael Jackson as artists’ inspiration.” Northwest Indiana Times, June 27.
Zamponi, Beatrice. “Michael Jackson: On the Wall at National Portrait Gallery of London.” Vogue Italia, June 15.
Miranda, Carolina A. “Datebook: Portraits of peers, collages inspired by the African diaspora and art for feline lovers.” Los Angeles Times, June 14.
“ ‘I was Michael Jackson’s personal photographer’.” Royal Photographic Society, June 6.
“The Faces of Michael Jackson.” Royal Photographic Society Journal, June.
2017 Curiel, Jonathan. “Michael Jackson Remains Invincible.” SF Weekly, May 17.
Wagley, Catherine G. “Iggy Pop on Trial, Long Island Iced Teas, and the Long Game: At the 2017 Edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary.” Artnews, January 30.
Wagley, Catherine. “5 Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week.” LA Weekly, January 25.
2016 Mizota, Sharon. “How artist Todd Gray fashioned another loving tribute to his friend, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.” Los Angeles Times, June 24.
Knight, Christopher. “‘Made in L.A. 2016’: Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities.” Los Angeles Times, June 23.
Diner, Eli. “Aram Moshayedi on Made in L.A. 2016.” Flash Art, June 10.
Rodney, Seph. “Todd Gray’s Framing of Identity.” Artillery Magazine, May 3.
Finkel, Jori. “Out-of-towners stay out-of-sight at Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair.” The Art Newspaper, January 30.
Jansen, Char. “Artist’s Desks.” Artslant, January 27.
Finkel, Jori. “‘Made in L.A.’ at Hammer Museum Casts a Global Eye.” The New York Times, January 20.
Vankin, Deborah. “What is an L.A. artist? Hammer Museum answers with its ‘Made in L.A.’ biennial lineup.” Los Angeles Times, January 19.
2015 McQuaid, Kate. “Armenia, Africa stamp their past on art.” The Boston Globe, May 26.
2012 Thelma Golden, Diedra Harris-Kelley, “The Bearden Project”, Studio Museum in Harlem
2010 Sharon Mizota, “Todd Gray and Kyungmi Shin at See Line Gallery”, Los Angeles Times, August 12
Todd Gray, “Michael Jackson Fotografien, 1974-1983”, Edel Publishing, Germany
Todd Gray, “Michael Jackson Before He Was King”, P-Vine Books, Japan
Todd Gray “Michael Jackson Antes De Ser El Rey”, NORMA Editorial, Spain
Todd Gray, “ Michael Avant Jackson”, Verlhac Editions, France
2009 Todd Gray, “ Michael Jackson Before He Was King”, published by Chronicle Books
2008 The Renaissance Society, “Black Is Black Ain’t”, exhibition catalogue
2006 Holly M yers, Around The Galleries, Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2006 pg E15
Tommy Freeman, “Brave New World at Pharmaka”, Artweek, September, 2006
2005 Charlene Roth, “Todd Gray: Immaculate” Artweek, March, 2005
Jody Zellen, “Todd Gray”, Art US, Reviews, March-April 2005 Page 7
2004 Holly M yers, “A historical record that tends to contain blots and erasures,”
Los Angeles Times, Calendar, December 21, 2004, page E3.
Julie Joyce, “Todd Gray: Immaculate”, exhibition catalogue, Luckman Fine Arts Complex
2003 Mat Gleason “Art Angelenos”, Modern Painters, London, Spring 2003.
2002 Emory Holmes, “Breaking Away From Pictures of Stereotypes”, Los Angeles Times, July 31, 2002, Art&Architecture page 57.
2001 Vince Alleti, “Body and Soul,” Village Voice, pg. 71, March 13
1999 Ken Johnson, “Art in Review; Choice: 99”, New York Times, December 10, 1999
1997 Hunter Drohojowska Philip, "I Tawt I Taw a ¢!#%?! -- Familiar cartoon characters take on a shadowy cast in Todd Gray's photographs", Los Angeles Times,
Sunday Calendar, January 5, 1997
Jody Zellen, "Todd Gray", Technikart, Paris, pg 72-73 December/January
Claudine Ise, "Todd Gray", Art Issues., pg. 38, March/April 1997
Susan Otto, "Todd Gray, Shoshana Wayne Gallery" Art in America, pg.134, May, 1997
1996 Peter Lunenfeld, "Technofornia", Flash Art, March/April 1996
Todd Gray, "Todd Gray: Michael Jackson Reconsidered", see: A journal of visual culture, pg.48 - 56,
Issue 2:1 1996 Published by The Friends of Photography, MIT Press
Paul Tomidy, "the present (h)our", catalogue, Oakland Museum of California, 1996
1990 V. Aletti, "Photo", The Village Voice, 2/6/90
Shelley Rice, "Promoting Pictures", Art in America, Oct. 1990
Susan Robinson, "Implicit References", Artweek, 3/15/90
1989 Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940-1988, by Deborah Willis-Thomas
C. Gerald Fraser, "Harlem Curator Helps Redefine Photography" The New York Times, 8/6/89
Joshua Decter, "New York In Review", Arts Magazine, December
PANELS AND LECTURES
2021 Artist Talk: Todd Gray / MATRIX 186, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, March 8, 2021
Panel Discussion: Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, May 12, 2021
2016 The Poetic Research Bureau presents. TODD GRAY, 10.15.16
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
"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
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, "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.
RESIDENCIES
2016 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, Bellagio, Italy
2015 Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, Englewood, FL
COLLECTIONS
Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College
California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Eileen and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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 Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT
University of Parma, Italy
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY