Gray Wielebinski
b. 1991
Upcoming
2022
Testament, Goldsmiths Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), London, UK, January 2022
2021
Solo show, Hales Gallery, London, UK June 2021
Dual Show with Motoko Ishibashi, Quench Gallery, Margate, Kent UK July 2021
By Any Means, curated, featuring VO Curations, London, UK July 2021
Selected Exhibitions
2020
Frieze Art Fair, Hales Gallery, London, UK (online)
-Our Ashes Make Great Fertiliser curated by Harminder Judge and Saelia Aparicio Public Gallery, London, UK
-Repurposed Textiles curated by Wilko Austermann, Krefelder Kunstverein, MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach and the Cariatsverband Dusseldorf eV, Krefeld and Dusseldorf, DE
solo show, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX , May 2020
The Twenty-Ninth Bather, ltd los angeles, LA, CA, January-March 2020
Baitball 01, Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, IT, January 2020
2019
4fucksakebabes, curated by Jamie Bull, Goswell Road, Paris, FR part of Paris Avant Premiere
Young Monsters, Lychee One Gallery, curated by Marcelle Joseph, London, UK September 2019
Skip Out, 3 person show with Soda Jerk and Bedwyr Williams curated by Sophie Netcheaf, South Kiosk, London, UK
*Dark Air (solo show) curated by DATEAGLE ART at Seager Gallery, London, UK July 2019
Time Crush, 3 person show with Dyveke Bredsdorff and Rowland Hill, Organon, Odense, Denmark
ULTRA: Art for the Womens’ World Cup, J HAMMOND PROJECTS, London, UK June 2019
It’s Not Me It’s You, with Nan Goldin, Cassils, and Zackary Drucker, Gazelli Art House, May 2019, London, UK
Skin Contact, curated by To Whom This May Concern at Enclave Projects, April 2019, London, UK
2018
*dual show, Kaitak Centre for Research and Development, Hong Kong
*solo show, Shaved In Opposite Directions, B. Dewitt Gallery, London, UK / Primary, Nottingham, UK, September 27-October 14th
LEGS, Fitzrovia Gallery, three person show curated by PINCH collective, October, 2018
MOTHERS, Turf Projects, Croydon, UK, September 2018
Sinkhole, October 2018, Ginny Projects, London, UK
*solo project, A Dog Pees On Things For More Than One Reason, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show, London, UK June 2018
Video Sport, Good Sport Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada, April 2018
High On Time The Voice Box Heaved, Toynbee Studios, London, UK, March 2018
2017
Cypher BILLBOARD, Domino Houses Billboard, London, UK, November 2017
Casa da Dona Laura, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2017
Got It for Cheap, Art Athina Fair in Athens, Greece, Soulland in Copenhagen, Denmark, The Hole, New York City, Rod Bianco Gallery in Oslo, Atlanta Contemporary and 0-0 LA.
*Maybe The Future and The Past Is All The Present Is, solo sound exhibition (online), www.ilyd.nu, May 2017
Authenic Tongues, Bloomsbury Theater, London, UK
The Dick Pic Show, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Patternmasters, The W Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
MEMEMEME, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Fade To Purple, The Chalton Gallery, London UK
2016
Snorkel Dreams: A Machine Project Guide to Art Underwater, Annenberg Community Beach House Pool, Los Angeles, CA
Pleasure Principle, Actual Size Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Weather Chronicle for New Weather Station with Chris Kallmyer, CURRENT: LA Public Art Biennial, Norman O. Houston Park, Los Angeles, CA
"PaperArtMachine" / Galería L, Exposición de Carteles, Havana, Cuba
GOT IT FOR CHEAP Vol. 2, David Risley Gallery/ Copenhagen, Denmark, May Steinsland Berliner Gallery / Stockholm, Sweden May-Agnes B's Gallerie du Jour / Paris, France, July
*dual show, "Roommates" with Becca Lofchie / The Chan Gallery, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2015
“The Waiting Room,” / Agora, Berlin, Germany
“3AM,” / Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben 3, Berlin, Germany
“Machine Project-The Platinum Collection” / Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
"Beg, Borrow or Steal" / Recess, New York, NY
Education:
2018 - MFA with distinction from The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
*Leonora Carrington Entrance Scholarship Recipient
2014 - Pomona College, Claremont CA, BA Studio Art
2012 - L’école Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art (ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres) Paris, FR
Artist Residencies:
City & Guilds London Art School, Artist in Residence, February to September 2019
Kaitak Centre for Research and Development AIR, Hong Kong, Winter 2018
Codex Residency, Oakland, CA Spring 2017
ARTSLANT Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency, Shortlist 2017
Agora Collective Residency (Fall 2015): Agora Collective, Berlin, Germany.
HIT Residency (2015): HIT Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
Awards and Grants:
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants, Summer 2019, with DATEAGLE ART
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants, Summer 2018, with B. Dewitt Gallery
The Artists Projects/Los Angeles (TAP/LA) Emerging and Mid Career Artist Grant, shortlisted
Jeanne Szego Travel Award, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, 2017
The Leonora Carrington Scholarship, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK, 2016-2018
Matthew Klopfleisch Memorial Prize in Art, Pomona College, 2014
Mary Drew Art Prize, Pomona College, 2013
Flintridge Funding Grant, The Louisa Moseley Fine Arts Fund, Claremont, CA 2013
Rembrandt Summer Research Grant, The Rembrandt Club, Claremont, CA 2013
Publications and Press:
The Best Young Artists in London Right Now, Time Out London, online and in print, October 2019
Interview: Gray Wielebinski On Investigating Myth Making & Gender In Their New Show ‘Dark Air’, Something Curated, Summer 2019
Featured in Coeval Magazine, London, UK Summer 2019
It’s Nice That Printed Pages, December 2018, in print
Featured in Art maze Magazine Issue 9, in print
“Mayhem in Mayfair” feature in Ocula Magazine by Tendai John Mutambu, Online, September 2018
Locker room talk: Gray Wielebinski on appropriating the visual, spoken and body language of baseball, It’s Nice That, July 2018
Making art that turns you on: chatting with Gray Wielebinski in the locker room of A Dog Pees On Things For More Than One Reason, AQNB, July 2018
Gray Wielebinski, Hammer Museum Graphite Magazine, July 2018
New Art Riot,Dazed Magazine, online and in print, April 2018
A glitch of potential: Gray Wielebinski talks strategies for subversion + hacking into our imagination beneath the surface, AQNB, UK, May 2017
Machine Project The Platinum Collection, Tang Teaching Museum and DelMonico / Prestel, 2016
Zine Vitrine Zine for VIA Publications, Issue 04, January 2015, Los Angeles, CA
BLISSS Magazine, Issue 101, January 2016, Los Angeles, CA
Art For Ourselves, Full Interview/Feature, San Francisco, CA, 2016
ARTSLANT, Under the Radar, 2015
Collections:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Library & Archives
Pomona College Museum of Art