Bio
Caroline Gray Art and Photography
California
Contact: Carogray@gmail.com
Social Media: Instagram - Flickr - Linkedin
Bio: Caroline Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, and grew up in Canterbury, UK, where took her first photographs. Visiting her father in a tea plantation in Darjeeling further inspired a life-long love of travel, of the color and variety of landscape.
Previously she worked in PR, choreography, theater, and art galleries, but photography has always been her passion. Her passion became her profession. This blossomed when she moved to California 25 years ago, and began photographing its landscapes and coastline. Alongside this she developed a twin career as artist, finding the two media enriched and emboldened eachother. An enthusiastic swimmer herself, water has ever been a primal fascination. The varying moods of the ocean, scenes of life on the beach, and, as in the current exhibition, movement and dance underwater. These are accompanied by some of her Death Valley series. The human body, so at home in the water, here struggles to gain purchase in the sheer majesty of the landscape.
In her own words:
“The camera is for me another organ—a mode of sensibility in its own right, like visual touching. I can’t imagine exploring the world without it, seeing it always renewed. The dialog it invites, whether with natural landscape or the human body, creates a vocabulary more nuanced, more sensitive, than I can find in words.”
Professional Activities and Exhibits:
Art and Photography:
Numerous Private Sales
Upcoming Exhibitions: ‘Dancing Deeply, Dream‘ Solo Photography Exhibition at Skidmore Contempory Art Gallery, Laguna, California - March 1 - March 31st 2026.
Past Show : ‘Undercurrents’ Solo photography exhibition at Lois Lambert Gallery -March 16 to May 5 2024
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Click here to read a recent article by Musée Magazine about the show
Click here to read a recent article by Rebel Canvas about the show
Primarily In The Right Hemisphere at Lois Lambert Gallery - September 7, 2024 – November 9, 2024
“PST Art: Art & Science Collide” DNA festival Celebrating 30 Years of Bergamot Station : 4 Photographs: This exhibition will be presented as part of the Participating Gallery Program for Getty’s PST Art: Art & Science Collide, as well as the inaugural DNA (Digital New Arts) Festival
Ongoing Moment - a painting show held at 2nd Street Art Gallery Santa Monica California - November 21 - January 10 2026. (Painting: There is always joy) -used for front cover of Spring Catalogue.
The On-going Moment: The Road Not Taken.” Watercolor plein aire paintings, Exhibition (Emeritus Gallery 2nd Street, Santa Monica). November 2024-January 2025.
Emeritus Art Exhibition: Online May 22nd 2025. Three paintings: Jester and Cliffs Over the Pacific. Lone Pine used as front cover.
Emeritus Photography Exhibition (two landscape photographs and one Underwater capture) Calm Path, The Expanse and Alexie - March 2024
Art Residency: Tongue River Artist Residency
Wyoming: May 2025… stayed for two weeks and gave a Demonstration of the photography, watercolors and acyrillic paintings I did there.
Previous Galleries and Exhibitions :
SMC Photography Exhibition online art exhibition July 2020, 2021, and 2022.
“Moments of Reflections”, The Birds and the Bees Exhibition, The City of Malibu
Crossing Lights and Shadows photograph Thirty Nine Whitstable, Kent, UK.Cultural Arts Commission (2020)
Howell and Green Fine Art Gallery (Topanga)
Exhibitions in Mikael Bishay (Main Street, Santa Monica Ca 90402); Luv and Sunshine (Topanga, CA 90290); Sienna Skin Care (Topanga, CA 90290)
LA Times - California Moments. Article on my photography with illustrations.
Front Cover Magazine ‘Den Norske Israelsmisjo.’
Article in Lobster Blog – ‘Caroline Gray’s Digital Dream.’
Landscape Design Photography: King Garden Design; Mark Susser -- Landscape
Architecture, Design.
Photographer: Venice Design Series: Events (charity work).
Donated work to: City Hearts -- Kids Say Yes to the Arts (Topanga CA) and to
Alta Med Health Services (Los Angeles)
Painting:
Collage picked for front cover: The Ongoing Moment (Santa Monica Collage Emeritus 2023, Annual Book)
Watercolor plein aire paintings, Exhibition (Emeritus Gallery 2nd Street, Santa Monica Ca 90405)
Winter 2022 Emeritus Schedule: back cover watercolor. (SMC Emeritus Art Gallery
hosted online.. ‘Figures in focus’ watercolor
Two paintings in a book ‘The Ongoing Moment’ 2021/2020. Literature and Art
from SMC Emeritus
Watercolour paintings in group exhibition: ‘Contours’ November 29 - December
29, 2019: 29 Palms Art Gallery 74055 Cottonwood Dr, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277.)