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Georgia Gardner Gray, 'Vestida y Desnuda (Clothed and Unclothed)', 2024. Oil on canvas, 142.5 x 122 x 3.5 cm. Credit: © Georgia Gardner Gray. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Robert Glowacki.
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Georgia Gardner Gray, 'Que viene el Coco (Here Comes the Bogeyman)', 2024. Oil on canvas, 200.5 x 169.8 x 3.8 cm. Credit: © Georgia Gardner Gray. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Robert Glowacki.
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Georgia Gardner Gray, 'Están Calientes (They Are Heating Up)', 2024. Oil on canvas, 200 x 240 x 3.5 cm. Credit: © Georgia Gardner Gray. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Lance Brewer.
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Georgia Gardner Gray, '¡Tragalo perro! (Swallow that, Dog!)', 2024. Oil on canvas 200.5 x 169.8 x 3.8 cm. Credit: © Georgia Gardner Gray. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Robert Glowacki.
Georgia Gardner Gray (b. 1988, New York) graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union, New York, in 2011.
Recent solo exhibitions include NDE, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2022); Works 2015 – 2018, Kunsthalle Lingen (2018); Concorde, UKS/Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2017); and Precious Provincials, Kunstverein Hamburg (2017).
She has participated in recent g...
In her second exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, Georgia Gardner Gray presents a group of new paintings that look to a peculiar Spanish institution, the cobrador del frac (translated as the ‘frock-coated debt collector’), to examine universal notions of social performativity. Throughout her multidisciplinary practice that incorporates painting, sculpture and theatre, Gardner Gray constructs a boundless world of carnivalesque scenes that host a spectrum of characters lifted from capitalist archetypes, internet subcultures and beyond. Her distinctly contemporary mise-en-scènes reach back into art history and upend its codes, with figures rendered in kaleidoscopic colours exhibiting an anxiety and detachment from their...