Net Worth
2024
Raleigh, North Carolina
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
André Leon Gray was born in 1969 in Raleigh, NC, where he lives and works as a self-trained interdisciplinary artist. Within his installations, paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures, he explores and investigates social power structures, culture, identity, and history. His artistic practice primarily uses objects charged with sociopolitical meaning to forge links between the past and the present. Gray’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including Dust My Broom: Southern Vernacular from the Permanent Collection, California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2019-20); To the Hoop: Basketball in Contemporary Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2020); and post hip hop? or return of the boom bap!, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Gallery, New York (2023) and Project Row Houses, Houston (2024). He has attended several residencies including the Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency (2024), McColl Center Artist Residency (2022), and the Fountainhead Residency (2011). Gray is also the recipient of the 2023 21c Research Triangle Artadia Award. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the California African American Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State University.
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024
I am interested in illuminating the complex duality of remembering and forgetting by constantly rousing the past and present, while disseminating alchemical changes to alter the perception of temporal identity beyond the material realm to an enlightened state of being.”