Michael Joaquin Grey

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Michael Joaquin Grey (born 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an American artist, inventor, and toy designer based in New York City.

Grey holds a BS degree in genetics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University. He is an inventor of ZOOB, an award-winning toy modeling system. His artwork, based around his understanding of genetics, language, and the origins of form, is shown internationally.

For the past twenty years, Michael Joaquin Grey has been creating work that extends and plays with the boundaries of art, science and media^[1]. Critical moments in natural phenomenon and culture are objects in his work, as are the prepositional states of change between matter, energy, behavior, and meaning. Grey's creative dialogue engages epistemological and pedagogical creative limitations of the tools and processes we use to observe, learn and play with our world.

Grey's work has been recognized in publications internationally including Artforum, Flash Art, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Leonardo, Artbyte, ID Magazine, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Village Voice, London Telegraph, Wired, Zing Magazine, Art & Auction, and The Wall Street Journal.

In the past Grey has exhibited at bitforms gallery^[2], New York and Seoul; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Milwaukee Art Museum; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Nordic Art Center, Helsinki; Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden; Kunsthalle Loppem, Belgium; Kunstverein Hannover; Serpentine Gallery, London; Brooke Alexander Editions, New York; Lisson Gallery, London; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, and Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles.

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• Grey's website
• New York Times review of Gladstone Gallery show
• SF Chronicle review of Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit