NAME: Andre Leon Gray
BIRTH PLACE: Raleigh, NC USA
BIOGRAPHY
André Leon Gray’s mixed media assemblages, installations, paintings, and drawings, known to his audience as “eye gumbo,” have been exhibited throughout the Southeastern region of the United States. With the intention to create a dialogue among his diverse audience, Gray has chosen more accessible venues that emphasize education over profit. He has exhibited at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro; Artspace in Raleigh; the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture at Duke University; the Waterfront City Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina; and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
Gray has received several honors. In 2000 he was the first artist to participate in the six-month Regional Emerging Artist in Residence program at Artspace in Raleigh, and received a Regional Artist Project Grant from the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County. In 2003 he received an Indies Triangle Arts Award for his contribution to the local art community.
In addition, his work is in public collections, including the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture at Duke University, and the Four Sisters Gallery Permanent Collection of Contemporary Self-Taught Art at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount.
André Leon Gray was born and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a self-trained artist and loves to dance.
