How to Be an Artist and a Parent—At the Same Time
Grayson Cox
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The practice of New York-based artist Grayson Cox incorporates photography, printmaking, architectural building, painting and carpentry to create works that “challenge the viewers' notions of space and parameter.” Says Cox of his interactive sculptures and installations, “I believe that architecture plays a very significant role in social balance or unrest. I am intrigued by the possibility of rituals and control that architectural space can facilitate, and social tensions that are created or relieved by paternalistic space.”
His solo exhibitions include Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., NYC and Engineer’s Office Gallery, Rockefeller Center, New York. His group exhibitions include New Museum Ideas City, New Museum, New York, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv and Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY. Cox was awarded the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant (2013), Emergency Grant by the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, the Visiting Scholar at the Steinhardt School, Department of Art at the New York University, a residency with the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (2012), as well as the American Austrian …
The practice of New York-based artist Grayson Cox incorporates photography, printmaking, architectural building, painting and carpentry to create works that “challenge the viewers' notions of space and parameter.” Says Cox of his interactive sculptures and installations, “I believe that architecture plays a very significant role in social balance or unrest. I am intrigued by the possibility of rituals and control that architectural space can facilitate, and social tensions that are created or relieved by paternalistic space.”
His solo exhibitions include Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., NYC and Engineer’s Office Gallery, Rockefeller Center, New York. His group exhibitions include New Museum Ideas City, New Museum, New York, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv and Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY. Cox was awarded the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant (2013), Emergency Grant by the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, the Visiting Scholar at the Steinhardt School, Department of Art at the New York University, a residency with the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (2012), as well as the American Austrian Foundation’s Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Arts, and the National Society of Arts & Letters National Careers Award (2002).
Born 1979
Hometown Indianapolis, Indiana
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
MFA, Columbia University, New York, New York, 2010
BFA, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2002
Works Available for Purchase
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