Grayson Perry RA

Grayson Perry, 'Personal Creation Myth', Glazed ceramic, H 49 cm. Coutesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Born: 24 March 1960 Chelmsford, UK
Elected RA: 15 March 2011
Category of Membership: Printmaker

Perry studied at Braintree College of Further Education from 1978 to 1979 and graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1982. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003.

He works in a variety of mediums but is best known as a ceramicist. There is a dissonance between the conventional forms of his vessels and the depictions that adorn them. He uses imagery and text to chronicle social concerns, his own formative experiences and to tell the story of his alter ego, Claire. The tone of his narratives is psychologically complex and often caustic. Although he uses traditional methods to make his pots, he employs a range of techniques, such as embossing and photographic transfers, to create intricate, animated surfaces.

Read an interview with Grayson Perry in RA Magazine Autumn 2011

Recent solo exhibitions
2013 Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden
2011 Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, British Museum, London
2011 Grayson Perry: Visual Dialogues, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
2009 The Walthamstow Tapestry, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2008 My Civilisation, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2008-2010 Unpopular Culture (curated by Grayson Perry), de la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK
2007 My Civilisation, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2006 The Charms of Lincolnshire, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2006 Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
2005 Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice
2004 Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2004 Collection Intervention, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives
2002 Guerilla Tactics, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Sept 21 - Nov 3
2000 Fig-1, London
2000 Sensation, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
1996-97 Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1994 Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1994 Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris
1991-92 David Gill Gallery, London
1991 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1990 Birch & Conran, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Penelope’s Labour: Weaving Words and Images, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
2011 Measuring the World – Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2011 Let the Healing Begin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2010-11 Aware: Art Fashion Identity – GSK Contemporary 2010, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010-11 The Unconscious in Everyday Life, Science Museum, London
2009 British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning 1967-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
2009 Fascination with the Foreign: China – Japan – Europe, Hetjens-Museum Landeshaupstadt Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quad1), The Burger Collection, Berlin
2009 Prints Charming, Liberty, London
2009 Medals of Dishonour, British Museum, London
2009 sh[OUT]: Contemporary art and human rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2008 Demons, Yarns and Tales, The Dairy, London
2008 Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum,New York
2006 Designing Truth, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum – Zentrum Internationaler Skulptur, Duisburg
2006 The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2005 Reveal, Nottingham’s Contemporary Textiles, Nottingham, UK
2005 Mixed-Up Childhood, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2004 A Secret History of Clay from Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool
2003 The Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
2003 For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2003 Thatcher, The Blue Gallery, London
2001-03 The East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, London
2001 Carts and Rafts, Camberwell College, London
2001 New Labour, Saatchi Gallery, London
2001 La Altra Brittania Tecla Sala, Barcelona
2001 Self Portraya, Group show at Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
2000 Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2000 British Art Show 5 curated by the Hayward Gallery

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