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.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1987 Columbia College, Chicago, IL., Visiting Artist
1990- Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA., Lecturer:
1995 Photographic Style and Content, Graduate Seminar
1992- University of California at Los Angeles, CA., Lecturer:
1994 Introduction to Photography, Independent Study,
Advanced Photography
1995 Pomona College, Claremont, CA., Lecturer:
Visual Literacy
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, Lecturer:
Advanced Digital Imaging
1996 California State University, Fullerton, Lecturer:
Graduate Critique
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Artist in Residence
1997 California State University, Long Beach, Assistant Professor, Photography
and Digital Imaging
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
1983 Los Angeles City College
1981 William Grant Still Arts Center, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
GROUP EXHIBITS
1998 Presumed Innocence", Anderson Gallery of Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, Va. , travels to:
Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinati, 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 (MOCA), Los Angeles
"Spheres of Influence", MOCA
1996 "Man's World", MOCA
"The Present (H)our", Oakland Art Museum, CA.
"Stream of Consciousness: Eight Los Angeles Artists", University
Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbera
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 "Laughing Matters", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
"Body Evidence", University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
"Convergence: 8 Photographers", Georgia Museum of Art, travels:
1992 University of California, Irvine.
University of California, San Diego.
Hammonds House Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
State University of New York, Albany.
Schonburg Center, New York Public Library, NY.
Penn. School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA.
"Recent Political Art", Mt. Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles,
CA.
"Figments: Dreams and Reality", Portfolio Annex, Los Angeles
"LA Xtension, Body Politic", Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA.
1991 "Nommo", Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
"No More Heroes", San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
"Convergence: 8 Photographers", exhibition travels to:
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN.
Houston Center for Photography, TX.
1990 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Houston Foto Fest, Houston, TX.
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
"California Alternative Show", Soho Photo, New York, NY.
"Convergence: 8 Photographers", Photographic Resource Center,
Boston, MA.
1989 "Directions in Photography", Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia,
PA.
"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.
1986 "Personal Icons", Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.
1985 "Outspeak", Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.
1984 "Fourth Annual Light Factory National Juried Exhibition",
The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC.
"All California '84", Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach,
CA.
"New Photographs/84", Central Washington University, Ellensburg
"Photography: Large Scale New Work", Rex W. Wignall Museum Gallery,
Chaffey Community College, Alta Loma, CA.
"Summer Songs", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
"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
1981 "Multicultural Focus: Photography Exhibit for the Los Angeles
Bicentennial", Barnsdall Municipal Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
1977 "Three Points of View", Soho Cameraworks, Los Angeles
COLLABORATIONS
1992 "Stephan Reusse/Todd Gray: Gravity As A Nostalgic Principle for
Adventurers", Art & Concept, Munich, Germany
1990 With German artist, Stephan Reusse, Photo-sculpture (Constant Frustration
Level), at the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, CA.
With Stephan Reusse, Photo-sculpture (Architecture/Utopia) "Emerging
Artists Biennial Exhibition," California Afro American Museum Los Angeles,
CA.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1981 Exhibition Catalogue, "Multicultural Focus", Los Angeles
Municipal Gallery
1982 Zoom, Italy, July/August
1983 Exhibition Catalogue, Albuquerque United Artists
"70's Style Is Photo Exhibit Focus", The New Mexico Sun, 1/16/83
1984 Exhibition Catalogue, "New Photographics/84",
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
1985 Todd Gray, "Icarus and Odysseus", Spectacle, number 3, 1985
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 "Todd Gray: Portfolio", Venice Magazine, January 1991
Christopher Knight, "New Artists on the Block", Los Angeles Times,
2/27/91
Kelly Rice, "Photography Review- 'Convergence' ", The Boston Globe,
January 25, 1991
Carol Wood, "Extending the Boundaries", City Paper, Baltimore,
MD. 2/15/91
Louise Sheldon, "Compelling 'Constructed Images' Now Showing at BMA",
Baltimore Chronicle
Linda Hillyer, "Photographic Resource Center/Boston Convergence: 8
Photographers", Art New England, 3/31/91
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
Jonathan Saville, "The Naked Truth", San Diego Reader, 3/19/92
Cover, GAY + LESBIAN TIMES, 3/26/92
Jennie Davis, "Business As Usual At MOPA", GAY + LESBIAN TIMES,
3/26/92
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
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1977 Wasserman Scholarship (Cal Arts)
1987 Agfa-Gevaert Materials Grant
1988 Wasserman Scholarship (Cal Arts)
1991 Art Center College of Design - Great Teacher's Award
1997 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant
PANELS AND LECTURES
1988 Todd Gray: Personal Myths, Columbia College Chicago Photography Department
Lecture Series
Panelist: Society for Photographic Education, National Conference, Deborah
Willis, moderator, Houston, TX.
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 University of California, Irvine, "Convergence", Pat Ward
Williams, moderator.
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
Santa Monica Museum of Art Salon Presents: Todd Gray
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 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
1997 The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, "Photographic Workshop
Series"
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
Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA.
University of Connecticut