TODD GRAY
EDUCATION
1979 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA., B.F.A.
1989 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA., M.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITS
2004 Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
2002 Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, State Univ.
1996 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
GROUP EXHIBITS
2004
Fade, 1990-2003, African American Art in Los Angeles, L. A. Cultural Affairs Department, Luckman Gallery, CSULA
2002
I-5 California Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art
“Media”, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles
“TV or Not TV”, L.A. Freewaves,
“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 Anacostia Museum and Center for African American Historyand Culture (exhibition travels for two years nationally)
1999
"Choice '99", Exit Art, New York
"The Artist As Patron" Alternative Museum, N. Y.
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" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"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.
"Stream of Consciousness: Eight Los Angeles Artists", University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
1995
"Photography: Los Angeles Now", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"Recent Acquisitions" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"Obliquely", Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
1994
"LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
COLLABORATIONS
2004
“Todd Gray/Stephan Reusse: Media Tower” Pasadena City College, California
2002
“Media” Brewery Art Project, with Stephan Reusse
1992
"Stephan Reusse/Todd Gray: Gravity As A Nostalgic Principle for Adventurers", Art & Concept, Munich, Germany
1990
“Architecture/Utopia”, with Stephan Reusse, Emerging Artists Biennial Exhibition, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1993 Peter Frank, "Art Pick of the Week", LA Weekly, 1/7/93
Jennie Klein-Davis, "Jump-Starting Masculinity: Queer Artists Expand an Arrested Development", AFTERIMAGE, October 1993
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
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
2002 Emory Holmes, “Breaking Away From Pictures of Stereotypes”, Los Angeles Times, July 31, 2002, July 31, 2002 Art&Architecture page 57.
2003 Mat Gleason “Art Angelenos”, Modern Painters, London, Spring 2003.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1997 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant (COLA)
1999 Public Art Commissions: Jefferson Branch Library, and Baldwin Hills Branch Library, City of Los Angeles
2000 Assigned Time release, CSULB
2001 SCAC, Assigned Time release, CSULB
2004 SCAC, Assigned Time release, CSULB
2004 Public Art Commission, L. A. Firestation #43, City of Los Angeles
Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation
PANELS AND LECTURES
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
1995 Santa Monica Museum of Art Salon Presents: Todd Gray
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "P.L.A.N. Artist Panel"
Pomona College, Claremont, Media Arts Lecture Series
Panelist: City of Los Angeles Cultural Grants Program, Photography
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
1997 The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, "Photographic Workshop Series"
1998 Todd Gray gallery talk on Man Ray, J. Paul Getty Museum
Governor's Conference on the Arts: "Beyond The Millennium - Redefining the Arts for the 21st Century," California Arts Council, (panelist with Steven Lavine - president, California Institute of the Arts, Ella King Tory - president, San Francisco Art Institute)
2001 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
2002 Academy of Media Arts, (Kunsthochschule fur Medien) Cologne,
Germany, Visiting Artist
Claremont Graduate School, Visiting Artist
2004
Yale University, “Regarding Michael Jackson: Performing Racial, Gender, and Sexual Difference Center Stage”
COLLECTIONS
University of Parma, Italy
National Gallery of Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
University of Connecticut
Eileen and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA.