Kevin Francis Gray
Kevin Francis Gray is an Irish artist living and working in Canterbury and Pietrasanta, Italy. Hedi Slimane and Howard Bilton are both collectors of his work.
Gray was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland. He studied at the National College Of Art and Design, Dublin, the School of Art Institute, Chicago, and he completed his MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London.
Gray is a figurative sculptor, who works predominantly with bronze and marble. His work has been shown in London, São Paulo, New York, Berlin, and Rome. He is currently represented by Pace Gallery, London.
Solo exhibitions
2017- Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Pace Gallery. London, UK
- Haunch of Venison, New York, NY, USA
- Mendes Wood Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
- Changing Role/Move Over Gallery, Rome, Italy
- Personal, curated by Martina Cavallarin; Changing Role/Move Over Gallery at Palazzo San Pasquale, Venice, Italy
- Goff+Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany
- Ringsend, Changing Role/Move Over Gallery, Naples, Italy
- Roebling Hall, New York, NY, USA
- One in the Other, London, UK
- Changing Role/Move Over Gallery, Naples, Italy
- One in the Other, London, UK
- Osterwalders Art Office, Hamburg, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
2013- Contemporary Silence, LisaBird Gallery, Austria
- Roundabout – Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Boundaries Obscured, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY, USA
- Apocalypse Now, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
- The Franks-Suss Collection – Phillips de Company at The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
- FRAGILE : Terres d’empathie, Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea
- Emporte-moi / Sweep Me Off My Feet, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Val-de-Marne, Paris, France
- Emporte-moi / Sweep Me Off My Feet – The Musée National des *Beaux-Arts de Québec, Canada and Museum of Contemporary Art of the Val-de-Marne, Paris, France
- Essential Experiences – Palazzo Riso, Museo d’art contemporanea della Sicillia, Palermo
- The Figure and Dr Freud – Haunch of Venison, New York, NY, USA
- Fragile – Musee d’Art Modern de Saint-Etienne, France
- Grotto – Museum 52, London, UK
- Et pendant ce temps – Nettie Horn Gallery, London, UK
- Micro-narratives – Musée d'Art moderne de Saint- Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
- Gravity – Colección Ernesto Esposito, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Reconstruction – Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK
- Out of Art, Centre PasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre D'art, Biel, Switzerland
- Micro–Narratives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
- Inaugural Exhibition, Goff+Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany
- iPod Killed the Radio Star, MAMA Showroom for Video and Media Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Lorand Hegye, P.A.N. Museum, Naples, Italy
- The Future Lasts a Long Time, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
- Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Roebling Hall, New York
- Group Show, Cell Projects, London, UK
- Bag Lady, Cell Projects, London, UK
- A Pillow For Dreaming, Rossana Chisilie, Turin, Milan, Berlin
- From a Bag of Shit to Karma Kola, Osterwalder's Art Office, Hamburg, Germany
- Matchine Matchine, 27 Spital Square, London, UK
- The Galleries Show, Royal Academy, London, UK
- May it Return in Spades, Bart Wells Institute, London, UK
- Summer in the city, Osterwalders Art Office, Hamburg, Germany
- Guardaroba, Via Venezia, Bari, Italy
- The Poster Show, Hoxton Distillery, London, UK
- Record Collection, VTO, London, UK
- Art Lab, Mobile Home, London, UK
- New Video, Caltech, Los Angeles, CA
- Behind the Beginners, Harvard Gallery, Boston, MA
- Heterogeneous Loves, CCA, Adelaide, Australia
- Harry Pie's Great British Art Show, Stark Gallery, London, UK
- It Might be Rubbish but its British Rubbish, Glass Box, Paris, France
- Photo15, Art Space NY, NY, New York
- Exit, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK