Paul Gray - ART NOW! Lecture

Art and Art History Department Chair and founding member of the Bad at Sports collective and podcast, Duncan MacKenzie hosts a conversation with Paul Gray of GRAY Gallery about contemporary art dealing, Chicago’s art scene, contemporary arts reach and audience, healthy living through sports, and what it was like to grow up in and around the most important modern and contemporary art gallery in Chicago’s history, the Richard Gray Gallery.

Managing partner of GRAY, a leading international dealer in Modern and Post War American and European art with locations in New York and Chicago, Paul Gray has acted as advisor and consultant to prominent private collectors and museums for over 30 years. Gray currently serves on the Board of the Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago; member of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Education Committee; on the International Board of Human Rights Watch; and is a founding board member of the Abraham Path Initiative. Gray has served on the National Finance Committee of the Obama for America presidential campaigns; on the board of the Art Dealers Association of America; as past president of the board of the Peace Museum; and on advisory and support groups for The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Gray and his wife Dedrea, who was trained as a teacher and is currently a community activist, are very involved in fundraising for progressive education, a variety of political candidates, and for social justice and environmental causes.

Guests of Columbia College Chicago must register to attend.

Masks are required for attendees at this event.

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