Todd Gray American, b. 1954

Born in Los Angeles, Todd Gray received both his BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Solo and group exhibitions include the Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; Whitney Biennial, NY; Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont; USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI; David Lewis, NY; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; National Portrait Gallery, London; Grand Palais, Paris among others. Performance works have been presented at  institutions such as the Roy & Edna Disney Cal/Arts Theater, REDCAT, and Hammer  Museum in Los Angeles.

His work is represented in numerous museum collections: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Wadsworth Atheneum  Museum of Art, Hartford; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; National Gallery  of Canada; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los  Angeles among others. He was the recipient of the Rome Prize for Visual Art in  2022, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, and of a Rockefeller Foundation  Bellagio  esidency, Italy in 2016. Todd Gray’s photo based work explores issues  of black masculinity, diaspora, and contemporary/historical examinations of  power. 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.