Todd Gray (b. 1954, Los Angeles) received both his BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Gray鈥檚 work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including the Whitney Biennial 2019. In 2018, his work was included in the major group exhibition 鈥淢ichael Jackson: On the Wall鈥 at London鈥檚 National Portrait Gallery, which traveled in 2019 to the Grand Palais, Paris; the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; and the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland; and 鈥淧ublic Fiction: The Conscientious Objector鈥 at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles, where he directed a new durational performance. In 2017, Gray had two solo exhibitions: 鈥淢y Life in the Bush with MJ and Iggy鈥 at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and 鈥淧luralities of Being鈥 at Gallery Momo in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gray has presented performance works at the Roy & Edna Disney Cal/Arts Theater, REDCAT, and as part of the 2016 Hammer Museum biennial exhibition 鈥淢ade in LA: a, the, though, only鈥 in Los Angeles. He is a 2018 John S. Guggenheim Fellow.