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
1996 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
1993 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1987 Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1984 Centro di Fotocultura, Verona, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITS
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 Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History
and 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"
"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
1993
"Body Evidence", University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
"Convergence: 8 Photographers", Georgia Museum of Art, travels:
1992
Hammonds House Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Schonburg Center, New York Public Library, NY.
"LA Xtension, Body Politic", Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA.
1991 "No More Heroes", San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
"Convergence: 8 Photographers", exhibition travels to:
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
Houston Center for Photography, TX.
1990 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
"California Alternative Show", Soho Photo, New York, NY.
1989 "Constructed Images: New Photography", exhibition travels to:
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
1988 "Curator's Choice: The Photographer's Mind", CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
"The Other", The Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX.
1987 "Explorations: Extending the Boundaries of Contemporary Photography", The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
1984 "Photography: Large Scale New Work", Rex W. Wignall Museum Gallery, Chaffey Community College, Alta Loma, CA.
"Professors Choice", Montgomery Gallery, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA.
"Hard Werken, Hamdelsdrukwerk: Gebruikte Fotografie", Perspektief, Galerie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1983 "Contemporary Photoworks II", Albuquerque United Artists, Albuquerque, NM.
1982 "Pigazzini e Gray", Il Diaframma, Milan, Italy

COLLABORATIONS
1992 "Stephan Reusse/Todd Gray: Gravity As A Nostalgic Principle for Adventurers", Art & Concept, Munich, Germany
1990 With Stephan Reusse, Photo-sculpture (Architecture/Utopia) "Emerging Artists Biennial Exhibition," California Afro-American Museum Los Angeles, CA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1982 Zoom, Italy, July/August
1984 Mark Johnstone, "Questions of Scale", Artweek, 4/7/84
"New Art is Los Angeles", High Fashion, Tokyo, July, 1984.
Suzanne Muchnic, "2 Schools: Faculties of Life", Los Angeles Times, 9/15/84
Gloria Ohland, "Black, White and Gray", LA Weekly, 8/9/84
1986 Marina LaPalma, "Reflecting Inner Worlds", Artweek, 4/26/86
1988 Cover, SPOT/ A Publication of the Houston Center for Photography, Spring, 1988
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
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
Joanne Silver, "Exhibit and Exploration of African-American Journeys", Boston Herald, 12/28/90
Kellie Jones, "A Contemporary Portfolio: Discussions with Dawoud Bey, Albert Chong, Adger W. Cowans, Mikki Ferrill, Todd Gray, Fern Logan, Jeffrey Scales, Accra Shepp, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis", Exposure , Fall 1990
1991 Christopher Knight, "New Artists on the Block", Los Angeles Times, 2/27/91
Linda Hillyer, "Photographic Resource Center/Boston Charles Hagen, "How Racial and Cultural Differences Affect Art", New York Times, 8/23/91
Barbara DeGenevieve, "Masculinity and Its Discontents", SF Camerawork Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1991
Idea Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, December 1991
Susan Y Dyer, "Documenting the Evidence: Afro-American Photography", Women's Art Magazine, September/October 1991
1992 William Wilson, "Personal Views of the Black Experience", Los Angeles Times, 2/3/92
Zan Dubin, "Black-Art Panelists Are Open to Interpretation", Los Angeles Times, Orange County Calendar, 1/24/92
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
2001 Vince Alleti, "Body and Soul," Village Voice, pg. 71, March 13
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1977 Wasserman Scholarship (Cal Arts)
1988 Wasserman Scholarship (Cal Arts)
1991 Art Center College of Design - Great Teacher's Award
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

PANELS AND LECTURES
1990 Los Angeles Photography Center: The Visual Statement
1991 Panelist: Regional Individual Photography Grants, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston MA.
1992 L. A. Art Fair, "L. A. Xtension Artist Panel"
1993 University of California, Los Angeles, Artist Lecture Series
L. A. Art Fair, "The Kitchen Table", Eugenia P. Butler, moderator
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
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, exhibitions committee 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)

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, Santa Monica, CA.

Title: Sonic Landscape

Show: Have You Ever Tried It This Way



.Click Above to View