Biography

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Sapori Di Mare paintings and drawings of Santa Maria Al Bagno, Salento Italy
2023 Scenes of Innocence And Experience House Of Annetta 25 Princelet Street Spitalfields E1
2022 Everybody Loves The Sunshine Parliament Hill Fields Lido Cafe NW5
2018 The Passing Show: New Adoration Paintings of London St-Martin-In-The Fields Crypt Gallery WC2N
2016 Londonessence: Dust and Shadows Rich Mix Arts Centre Shoreditch/ GX Gallery
2015 Metropolitan Drift Viking Gallery Margate/GX Gallery
2014 Londonessence: Adoration Oxo Gallery/ GX Gallery
2012 Ebb and Flow The Dixie Queen Paddle Steamer Butler’s Wharf/ GX Gallery
2012 Top of the World Ma! Searcys Club The Gherkin 30 St Mary Axe
2012 Mexico Calling Milagros Gallery Columbia Road Bethnal Green
2011 London Souls Crypt Gallery St Pancras Church Euston
2011 All this Useless Beauty GX Gallery
2011 Bar Italia Soho
2011 London Unspooled Shortwave Cinema Bermondsey
2010 Documentary Screening of ‘One Year: A year in the life of Ed Gray’ Dir. Michael Holland Shortwave Cinema
2010 Mind Out of Time GX Gallery
2009 Documentary Screening of ‘Ed Gray in Mexico’ Shortwave Cinema
2009 Time Out of Mind GX Gallery
2008 Transmetropolitan, GX Gallery
2007 Glitter and Grime GX Gallery
2006 Fairytales of New York and Lullabies of London GX Gallery
2005 20,000 Streets Under the Sky GX Gallery
2004 London Calling GX Gallery
2003 The Sun and Doves Camberwell
2001 Front St Gallery Bermuda
2001 Dockyard Gallery Bermuda
2001 Brixton and Beyond Fleart Gallery Brixton

2024 Shut Up & Stick To Football @ The Bomb Factory Covent Garden
2023 Illustrated Guide To London Exhibition Invited artist Royal Overseas League, St. James’s, London SW1A
2020 ING Discerning Eye guest artist
2020 John Moores Painting Prize Long List
2020 Secret 7″ invited artist NOW Gallery Greenwich
2019 Royal Academy Summer Show invited artist
2018 Soho Radio Wonderful Sounds Great Windmill St
2014 Serpentine Gallery Pleasure: A Block Study Edgware Road Project
2013 ACME Studios 40th Anniversary Web Award
2012 Viktor Wynde Gallery
2010 FIFA World Cup International Art Collection Tour
2010 London and Londoners City Hall London
2009 Bermondsey Artists Delfina Gallery
2003 Cafe Gallery Southwark Park
2001 Desmond Fountain Gallery Bermuda
2001 Dockyard Arts Centre Bermuda
1996 Glebe Gallery Baltimore Ireland
1994 Tommy’s Bar Cardiff

2024-25 ActionSpace artist mentor
2022- 2025 Artist in residence for Boutcher School Bermondsey curating and delivering art projects and events:
2025 Everyone Lends A Hand, intergenerational project with Appleby Blue Alms House & Boutcher Primary School Bermondsey Year 5 pupils
2024 Boutcher School Bermondsey Rite of Spring: Back 2 Life life drawing, sculpture & animation project Years 3,4,5
2023 Mural commission: Inside Outside with Years 3,4,5 9Metre x 1.5 Metre mural for Boutcher Primary school hall
2023 Boutcher & Co William Morris printmaking project and pop-up shop with Year 5 Boutcher Primary School Bermondsey
2022 A Bermondsey Progress, local history drawing and painting project 19thC-21stC for Boutcher Primary School 150th anniversary
2019 Art tutor Belmarsh Young Offenders Institute
2014-17 Artist in Residence St Mary Magdalene School Peckham
2013-18 London Centre for Contemporary Media Blackfriars BA Music Composition Course
2014 John Ruskin School Walworth
2012 Searcys The Gherkin 30 St. Mary Axe
2010 Guga S’Thebe Arts and Cultural Centre Langa Township Capetown South Africa
2005 Charles Edward Brooke School Camberwell
2001 Drawing Tutor Dockyard Correctional Facility Bermuda
2001 International Artist in Residence Masterworks Foundation Bermuda
1999 St Mary Magdalene Primary School Brockley
1999 Sir James Smith’s School Callington Cornwall
1999 Cornwall Camelford Community College Cornwall
1997 Northwold School Clapton/ Sam and Anne Cohen Day Centre Clapton

2024 Staff INSET on Creativity for Boutcher School Bermondsey
2019 National Football Museum lecturer & INSET staff training ‘The Art of Sport’
2019 HMP Belmarsh YOI art tutor
2019 Walworth History Society Festival/ 2InspireYouth
2019 School of Visual Arts New York visiting lecturer
2016-2018 Queen Mary’s University MA Social Geography visiting lecturer
2013-2016 London Centre for Contemporary Music Blackfriars BA Music Composition Course ‘Songs of the city’ visiting lecturer
2015 Guest speaker Southampton Solent University Fine Art
2015 Guest lecturer Sir John Soane’s Museum: William Hogarth
2015 Dr Martens’ Hogarth Collection Launch guest speaker
2013-15 UCon University of Connecticut in London Visiting lecturer: ‘Art in the City’
2011 London College of Communications UAL: ‘Art and the City’ Guest Lecturer
2007 Chelsea College of Art UAL guest lecturer Graduate Week BA and MA students
2005 INSET Trainer for teachers Charles Edward Brooke School Camberwell/ Tate Modern

2022-25 Boutcher School Bermondsey Resident Artist
2004-present: Invited lectures and talks for schools
2014-17 St Mary Magdalene School Peckham
2015 St Thomas Apostle College Nunhead visiting artist
2005 Charles Edward Brooke School Camberwell resident artist
2004 Education Officer Camberwell Arts
2004 Painting Tutor Dulwich Picture Gallery
2004 Painting Tutor Tate Modern Bankside
2004 Drawing Tutor ‘Excellence in Cities Programme’ Prince’s Trust Hoxton, London
2004 Education Action Zone Artist Educator Southwark Secondary Schools
2001 Life Drawing Tutor Masterworks Foundation of Bermuda
1999-2003 Art Teacher St Thomas Apostle College Peckham
1996 Carnival Costume Designer and workshop leader Notting Hill Carnival Masquerade 2000
1996 Project Manager Magic Me Mile End Hospital
1996 Devas Youth Club Battersea

Tubby Hayes ‘Splonge’ Compilation for Decca Records vinyl album
2020 Book cover: In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne Swedish translation
2019 Book cover: Pie Fidelity by Pete Brown
2018 Paul Weller ‘Movin On’ from True Meanings album video artwork
2015 Book cover Moving Up and Getting On Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in the UK by Jill Rutter
2014 Tubby Hayes ‘A Man in A Hurry ‘ documentary artwork
2013 Burton Bradstock ‘All upon a lovely summer’s Day’ album artwork LP & CD
2005 Stereo MCs ‘Paradise’ album artwork

2025 Little Odessa: A Brighton Beach Anthology by Ester Petukhova
2014 Rock of Eye: Ed Gray Painter of City Life GX Gallery ISBN 978-0-9555879-1-7
2014 Pleasure: A Block Study Edgware Road Project Serpentine Gallery ISBN 978-1908617163
2010 Ed Gray Catalogue 2010 pub. EdGrayArt
2007 Glitter and Grime: Paintings of London, New York and Bermuda by Ed Gray pub. GX Gallery ISBN 978-0-9555879-0-0