Roy LaGrone

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Roy LaGrone (born 1966 in Tupelo, Mississippi) is an American media artist who lives and works in Pordenone, Italy.

LaGrone studied at the Atlanta College of Art (BFA, 1989), and the Savannah College of Art and Design (MFA, computer arts, 2000).

LaGrone’s work has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum; SIGGRAPH; the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum.

Roy LaGrone has worked professionally in graphic design and previously taught as Professor of Computer Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design until 2004. His work, which ranges from large-scale photomontage, animation and video installations, often involve intricate illusions of three-dimensional space constructed from found objects. Utilizing the advances in digital imaging processes (typically commonplace within the special effects industry) LaGrone prescribes visual narratives to these discarded artifacts. The work is heightened with many layers of transmutated elements and cultural references. LaGrone states that, “these large-scale, computer-generated transpositions are fetishes: which explore the idea of transforming socially discarded beings, places, and objects into sacred projections.”