EDUCATION

1989
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA

1979
BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
Time Machine / Hippie Dandy, Melikstetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
Todd Gray, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY

2015
Caliban in the Mirror: Exquisite Terribleness, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

2014
Exquisite Terribleness, Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA

2012
The Gray Room, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2010
Spirit Shack, See Line Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

2005
Todd Gray, Shaman, Pablo’s Birthday, NY

2004
Todd Gray: Immaculate, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles

2003
Media Tower, Pasadena City College, CA

2002
Todd Gray, Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, State University

1996
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
Teleportation, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China
a, the, though, only, Made in LA 2016, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2015
Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Art Museum, Randolph College, Virginia
Above/Below/Within, Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
Cry Me A River, Etoile Polaire Lodge #1, New Orleans, LA.
Caliban in the Mirror, 2.0, Samson Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Black Portraitures{S} Ii: Imaging The Black Body And Re-Staging Histories, symposium presented by NYU / Tisch School of the Arts, Florence, Italy
Manifest Justice, pop-up exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

2014
Freeway Studies #2: Inside the Quad, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles
Racial Imaginary, Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
Exquisite Terribleness, Meliksetian | Briggs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gettin’ off the Ground, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

2013
Go Tell It on the Mountain, California African American Museum, Los Angeles

2012
Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Refocus: Multicultural Focus, Arena 1, Santa Monica

2011
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Posing Beauty, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Newark Art Museum, Figge Art Museum

2010
From My Universe, Objects of Desire, See Line Gallery, West Hollywood
Contemporary Art From The Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

2009
Black Is Black Ain’t, Detroit Museum of Art
Oz, New Offerings From Los Angeles, Instituto Cultural Cabaña, Guadalajara, Mexico
Posing Beauty, NYU Tisch, Gulf+Western Gallery, New York

2008
Black Is Black Ain’t, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Visual Artists L. A., Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
PIX, Some Recent Photos From The Post-Filmic Era, Torrance Art Museum, CA
This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs, Huntington Library, San Marino

2007
Celebrity, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
Blacks in and out of the Box, California Afro-American Museum, L.A., CA

2006
Gray, Korfmann, Youngblood: New Forms in Photography, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles
Brave New World, Pharmaka Art, Los Angeles

2005
Framing the Triangle, Goethe Institute, Accra, Ghana

2004
Fade, 1990-2003, African American Art in Los Angeles, L. A., Cultural Affairs Department, Luckman Gallery, CSULA

2001
Committed to the Image, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
Beyond Boundaries Contemporary Photography in California, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco

2000
Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
American Dreams, 6th International Triennale, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
A History of African American Photographers, Smithsonian

1998
Mouse: An American Icon, Alternative Museum, New York
Presumed Innocence, Anderson Gallery of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va. , travels to: Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH
City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Grant Recipients, L. A. Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park

1997
Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection Spheres of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1996
Man's World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Present (H)our, Oakland Art Museum, CA

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

2012
CIM Group, Midtown Crossing, Los Angeles
Los Angeles International Airport, Video Installation (with Joseph Santarromana)

2009
Los Angeles International Airport

2004
L. A. Firestation #43 City of Los Angeles for permanent collection

IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS

Studio Museum in Harlem University of Parma, Italy
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art/LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art/MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT
Eileen and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
City of Los Angeles