Biography

Grayson Cox is a New York-based artist born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His practice involves discussion, photography, printmaking, architectural building, painting, teaching and family life.

He Attended Columbia University, Indiana University, Sommer Akademie in Salzberg and SVA in New York. Grayson is the recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic innovation and collaboration grant, National Society of Arts & Letters Career Award, the Daisy Soros Prize, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency. He has exhibited in New York and internationally including the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Art Ichol in Maihar, India; Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; The New Museum, New York; Elizabeth Foundation, New York; The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Queens, New York; Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY; The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NY; and the Sculpture Center in Queens, NY. 

Grayson is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor with CCE at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Links

New Project in Cragsmoor, New York: Lawn Monuments

Review: Brooklyn Rail

Maake Magazine Interview: https://www.maakemagazine.com/goodnaked

Schneider Museum of Art: FACETIME: Creative Industries Artist and Resident Teaching Artist

PS1 Radio Interview: https://clocktower.org/show/grayson-cox

Interview: The Water's Fine at Tanja Grunert Gallery in New York

Berlin Art Link

An Artist Statement

Christopher Stackhouse essay for “SELF Check Out”, 2015

Speechbuster Press Release, A Commission by Storefront for Art and Architecture and Collaboration with Architect Jimenez Lai, Supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation

Jon Kessler and Fia Backstrom interview/ The Water’s Fine / Gasser Grunert 2012

The Water’s Fine Press Release for the 2012 Show at Gasser Grunert Gallery in Chelsea

The Waters Fine, Gasser Grunert Gallery, Pidgin Magazine Publication, Architecture School, Princeton University

Interview with Michael Rush for Clocktower Radio, 2011

NUDGE, NUDGE ME DO///// –  by Alison Guidry and Robert Rhee 2011

Working statements

Conversation Booth text

Having a moment with you, Having a moment with your phone

Curatorial Projects

2019 “New Edition: Print from the past, present, and future at Pratt” Artists: Trudy Benson, Geoff Chadsey, Angela Dufresne, Ray Johnson, Lee Krasner, Krystin McKinney, Lisa Sanditz. Curated by Grayson Cox and Caitlin Riordan.

2017 “Published by the Artist” International Print Center New York Curated by Angela Connant and Grayson Cox

2016   “MDF Blog”, Planthouse Gallery, New York, New York

2014  “MWOW”, Knockdown Center, Queens, New York

2013  Personal Propaganda, Organized by Grayson Cox, This Red Door at Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY

2009  “For You”, Artists: Paul Branca, Daniel Bozhkov, Birgit Rathsman, John Walker and Jesse Weiss, Curated by Grayson Cox, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University,