Christine Gray

EDUCATION

2007
MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara, California

2003
BFA, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

1998
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2012
New Work, RARE, New York, New York

2010 - 2011
Recent Work, Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, December 15
Closer and Closer,RARE, New York, New York, February 2010.
Into the Light, Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas, January 2010.

2009
GAZER, Cress Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 2009.
Andrea Cohen and Christine Gray, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, D.C., August 2009.
Depth of Field: Christine Gray and Terri Weifenbach, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, January 2009.

2008
Spring Thaw, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 2008, essay by Kriston Capps.

2007
Mimeographic Spectrum, Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas, July 2007

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Not in My Backyard, Den Contemporary
Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA

2009
2010 Young Painters Competition: Finalist Exhibition, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Juried by Rapheala Platow.
8x12, RARE, New York, New York
Antler Necklace, Half Dozen Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Curated by Amber Vilas.
FEED, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Juried by Ashley Kistler and Mark Sloan.

2008
SCOPE Miami, RARE booth, Miami, Florida, December 2008.
Aqua Wynwood, Project 4 booth, Miami, Florida, December 2008.
Particularities and Abstractions, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, Maryland.
Ultrasonic International III: Elementary, My Dear Watson, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California. (catalog)
Almost Famous, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
Works on Paper, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
Small Claims, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
SCOPE NY, Project 4 Booth, Lincoln Center, New York, New York
2, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, D.C.
New Work, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2007
Aqua Art Fair, Project 4 Booth, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Florida
True Métier: Call For Entries 2006-2007, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, Catalog with essays by Frederick Janka and Elizabeth Lovero; Juried by Laurel Beckman (UCSB), Aimee Chang (OCMA), Rita Gonzales (LACMA), Dane Goodman (SBCC), and Clara Kim (REDCAT).
Compass 2007, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, California, Catalog with essays by Tyler Stallings and Ciara Ennis.
High 5: Emerging Art in America, CW Network Headquarters, Burbank, California, Curated by Regine Basha, Ben Haywood, Matthew Higgs, Kathryn Kanjo, and Kristan Kennedy with catalog essay by David Pagel
Elemental Tangents, The University Art Museum, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California

2006
Bright Young Things, The Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

2005
2005 Texas Biennial, Bolm Studios, Austin, Texas, Catalog with essay by Dana Friis-Hansen.

2004

Truffle Shuffle, Camp Fig, Austin, Texas
Retreat!, Supplemen+ at Chruch of the Friendly Ghost, Austin, Texas

AWARDS

2010
$10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award, 2010 Miami University Young Painters Competition

2009
Winner, 2010 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award.
Jentel Foundation Resident Fellow
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency Fellowship
Golden Foundation Fellowship
7 Below Arts Initiative Residency Fellowship
Faculty Research Reassignment, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University

2008
Dean’s Faculty Research Grant Recipient, Virginia Commonwealth University

2007
Dean’s Faculty Research Grant Recipient, Virginia Commonwealth University
Levitan Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara

2005
Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara.
Juror's Choice Award, 2005 Texas Biennial

PUBLICATIONS AND SELECT PRESS

Denise Stuart-Sanabria, Review: Johnston Foster + Christine Gray, Art Papers, January/Februrary 2010, p 56.

Lisa Radon, “Review: Antler Necklace at Half/Dozen,” Culturephile: Portland Arts blog, Portland Monthly Magazine, Noveber 27, 2009.

Michael Crumb, “Devotion: The Art of Play,” The Chattanooga Pulse, October 28, 2009.

Ann Nichols, “'Sticky Situation'/'Gazer': Two bodies of work by Virginia Artists Open at UTC on Tuesday,” Times Free Press, October 11, 2009.

Andy Kozlowski, Review: Feed Biennial, Art Papers, October/November 2009.

Bird Cox, “Spiritual Geometry: Christine Gray Sifts Through Layers of America,” Brick Weekly, September 4-10, 2008.

Heather Silva, “Ultrasonic International III: Elementary My Dear Watson,” Flavorpill, Issue 288, September 2, 2008.

J.W. Mahoney, “To a different drum: in the 50 years since the Color School drew international notice, D. C.'s artists have mostly worked at a slight remove from the contemporary art world at large", Art in America, May 2008.

Kriston Capps, “Spring Thaw” Exhibition essay, Project 4 Gallery.

Jessica Dawson, “Christine Gray’s Household Helpers,” The Washington Post, April 25, 2008.

Rachel Sitkin, “Spring Thaw Review”, B-more Art, April 29, 2008.

Maura Judkis, “Spring Thaw,” Washington City Paper, April 30, 2008.

Tim Bowring, “Interview with Christine Gray,” Zero Hour, WRIR, Richmond, Virginia, November 20, 2007.

Melissa Seley, “CAF Celebrates Tri-County Artists with True Métier,” Santa Barbara Independent, September 20, 2007.

Josef Woodard, “Call for a Calling,” Santa Barbara News Press, September 14-20, 2007.

“Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum: An Artist’s True Métier,” CASA Magazine, September 7, 2007.

Salvador Castillo, “Christine Gray: Mimeographic Spectrum,” Austin Chronicle, July 20, 2007.

Josef Woodard, “Becoming Part of Art: UCSB grad students’ work reflects a more interactive reality,” Santa Barbara News Press, May 4, 2007.

Colin Gardner, “The Mirror Crack’d: On the Uses and Abuses of Formalism for Life,” catalog essay from MFA Thesis Exhibition.

David Pagel, High Five: Emerging Art in America, catalog essay.

Ciara Ennis and Tyler Stallings, Compass 2007: New Art from the University of California’s MFA Programs, catalog essay.

Frederick Janka and Elizabeth Lovero, True Métier: Call For Entries 2006-2007, catalog essay.

Josef Woodard, “Hidden in Plain Sight,” Santa Barbara News Press, September 1-7, 2006.

Rebecca S. Cohen, “Texas Biennial 2005.” Artlies, Spring 2005, No. 46.

J R Compton, “The 2005 Texas Biennial: The Illusive 3rd Dimension.” Dallas Arts Revue, March, 2005.

Austin Chronicle, Volume 24, No. 30, March 25, 2005.

Elaine Wolff, “Digital-induced angst and sensory overload”. San Antonio Current, March, 10, 2005.

New American Paintings, Number 54, 2004. (back cover image)