Nathan Gray uses techniques learned from his background in experimental music to create works that talk about the way people interact with objects. Using a set of strategies that look at objects as scores for action he creates succinct, often humorous works that span sculpture, performance and video.
Gray is currently completing an MFA at The Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Solo exhibitions include: Works: Under 30 Seconds and Things that Fit Together, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2014; Queen Size, Plinth Projects Melbourne, 2013; Acts, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2012; Theorist Training Camp/Practice Piece, West Space, Melbourne, 2012; In the year 2525, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2011; Gertrude Contemporary Project Space, Melbourne Art Fair, 2010; Tudo Que Acho/ Everything I Think, The Narrows, Melbourne, 2008; Quem Ao Viu O Vento, Escola Dos Belos Artes, Salvador, Brazil; 2008; Untitled Installation, Mirka @ Tolarno for ACCA, Melbourne, 2007; and Love, Purity, Accuracy, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2007. Recent group exhibitions include The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, 2014; Spring 1883, Utopian Slumps, The Hotel Windsor, 2014; You Imagine What You Desire, 19th of Sydney, 2014; Regimes of Value, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne, 2013; Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2012; The Social Life of Things, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Art Museum; and ACCA Art #2, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, 2011. Gray completed has residencies at Cemeti House, Indonesia in 2011, at the Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil in 2008 and was a Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist, 2010-12. He is a member of the improvised electronic group Snawklor, band People Person and convenor of Ancient Memories a group that performs works by Cornelius Cardew. Gray was recently awarded The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, 2014.
