Kevin Francis Gray is a London-based sculptor working in cast resin, bronze and marble. His works merge classical forms of old masters with a gritty, urban aesthetic. Figures cloaked in modern-day street wear are given a meditative, somber quality. Gray’s sculptures project a sense of nobility and admiration for an often marginalized and consciously melancholic inner-city youth subculture.
Receiving his education from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Goldsmiths College, London, Gray has been included in exhibitions at the Daejeon Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), Museum of Contemporary Art of the Val-de-Marne (Paris), the Musee National des Beaux-Arts de Quebec, Centre Pasqu’art (Biel, Switzerland), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, MAMA Rotterdam, P.A.N. Museum, Naples and the Royal Academy, London, and Reconstruction #3 at the Sudeley Castle. He has had solo exhibitions around the world, including in New York, London, Naples, Berlin and Sao Paulo. Gray’s work has appeared in publications such as the Financial Times, Sleek Magazine, Time Out and Flash Art and the New York Times. He will be showing new work in Haunch of Venison New York’s inaugural Chelsea exhibition in September 2011 and will have his first solo exhibition with the gallery in May, 2012.
