Carnegie Mellon University MFA

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

BFA (Photography, Conceptual Art, and Art History)

Graduated with Highest Honors

Minor in Women and Gender Studies

University of New South Wales- Sydney, Australia

University of North Carolina School of the Arts High School

Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University

Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University

Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University

Creative Quarterly 37 Runner Up

Fine Art Winner, Creative Quarterly 36

Penland School of Craft Residency

Honors Thesis - Blood Harmony

Alexander Julian Prize

University of North Carolina Sculpture Garden Commission

UNC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award

Creative Quarterly 32 Runner Up

Sarah Steele Danhoff Undergraduate Research Award

Outstanding Project Group (Guerrilla Art Connected Learning Program)

Guerrilla Art Connected Learning Program Membership

Outstanding Performance in International Baccalaureate Visual Art Award

Sarah Jones Art Scholarship

Order of the Arrow (Honor Society of Boy Scouts)

Eagle Scout Rank

His and Hers (Perfect Lovers), Hanes Art Center Alumni Sculpture Garden, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Mother Tongue No. II, Powder Room, Pittsburgh, PA

Mother Tongue No. I, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Welcome To My Faith In You, The Frame, Pittsburgh, PA

Blood Harmony, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

Great Lakes International Film Festival, Erie, Pennsylvania

Twist & Twine, Paradice Palase, Queens, NY

Alternative Film Festival, The Burroughes Building, Toronto, Canada

IRL: Investigating Reality, The Untitled Space, New York, NY

Five Continents International Film Festival, Osic Art Room, Anzoategui, Venezuela

Videolands, Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece

Director’s Choice, Viridian Artists, New York, NY

Straight Through the Wall, Urban Projection Mapping, New York, NY

Weihnachtsfilmfestival, Moviemento, Berlin, Germany

Cutting Edge International Film Festival, Digital Cinema

Buffalo International Film Festival, North Park Theatre, Buffalo, NY

Mainframe (Curated into Exhibition), The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC

Short Shorts 2018, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

Cinema d'iDEA, CineLab of Tiber Island, Rome, Italy

Fuck the Narration, Pugnant Film Series, Chimeres Space, Athens, Greece

The Way it Looks Back At You, Video Art Miden, Archaeological Museum of Messenia, Kalamata, Greece

SURVEIL/SURVEILLED, Storytellers' Institute, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Blue Like Fortune, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA

Shot For Shot Film Festival, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

By Means of Play, Gallery One, Pittsburgh, PA

The House We Build, Imagebox, Pittsburgh, PA

Each/Other, The Frame, Pittsburgh, PA

Immutable Stage, The Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Spark the Movement, Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

The Art of the Remix, Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Just Say'n, Bottle Works, Pittsburgh, PA

Restructured, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA

Color 2017, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

Contemporaneous, Alphabet City, Pittsburgh, PA

Highest Grossing Film: The Sequel, Powder Room, Pittsburgh, PA

Trans-Q Live!, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

The Highest Grossing Film of 1994, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX

Cabinet, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO

Power and the Soul, The Frame, Pittsburgh, PA

Nightmare, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

Be Somebody with a Body, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

Songs You Know By Artists You Love, WRCT 88.3 FM

New Members Show, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, The Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

What’s at Steak?, The Frame, Pittsburgh, PA

What’s a Steak, 5112 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA

Loving Betrayal: A Dialogue with Mother, Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA

In the Flesh 5, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA

Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-Para-Anti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC

FOTOFLIC, Click! Triangle Photography Festival, The Cordoba Center for the Arts, Durham, NC

Shifting Identities, online group show, Photoreview.com

FOTOflic, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

Fall Grand Salon Show, The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

SOUTHERNS: Queer Identified Artists Finding Home and Family in the South , The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

Habitual Action, Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Proof: The 2013-14 Undergraduate Art Awards Exhibition, Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Coming In: An Art Show on Queer Aesthetics, SAMple Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Nothing is the Same as Anything, Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Letting Water Speak- A collaborative performance with Buster Simpson, Chapel Hill, NC

COMMON ICON, Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Collaboration with Sumi Ink Club, Allcot Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

A Taste of Empathy, Graham Memorial, Chapel Hill, NC

Love/Hate, Private/Public, Inside/Outside, Gay/Straight: An exhibit featuring the works of LGBTQIA artists living in North Carolina, Durham Arts Place, Durham, NC

The Non-Being of Having: An Art Show, Allcot Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

On Hung, University of North Carolina Student Union, Chapel Hill, NC

Live Relic: In Honor of Kimowan Metchewais, Allcot Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Immersion, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC

Watch Out, The Featured Artists of "The House We Build" Are Just Getting Started, Chrisley, Emma. “Watch Out, The Featured Artists of ‘The House We Build’ Are Just Getting Started.” Moxie Magazine, 1 June 2018, www.moxiemagazinepgh.com/single-post/2018/06/01/Watch-Out-The-Featured-Artists-of-The-House-We-Build-Are-Just-Getting-Started.

sentiment petit a, Gray Swartzel & Verónica Vega, Welcome To My Faith in You

Creative Quarterly 36, Print and Online

Gilmore, Margaret. "UNC Student's Photographic Series "Blood Harmony" Represents Construction of Gender, Sexual Identity." The Daily Tar Heel. DTH, 20 Apr. 2014. Web.

Vitiello, Chris. "Blood Harmony." Rev. of Blood Harmony. INDY. 16 Apr. 2014. Blood Harmony. INDY. Web.

Swartzel, J. Gray. "Blood Harmony." Thesis. University of North Carolina, 2014. Print.

The Siren - Life Through a Feminist Lens: The Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence Issue. Spring 2014.

Cellar Door Online, The Undergraduate Literary Magazine of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Spring 2014

Vitiello, Chris. "Empathy and Ritual in Art Cakes at UNC." INDY. INDY, 5 Dec. 2013. Web.

"ENCOUNTERS: With the Music of Our Time." Duke University Music. Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Nov. 2013. Web. 26 Jan. 2014.

Moorman, Karen E. "Encounters: World Premieres Featuring Wet Ink Ensemble and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek." CVNC: An Online Arts Journal in North Carolina. CVNC, 3 Mar. 2013. Web.

Cover of the Cellar Door, The Undergraduate Literary Magazine of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Spring 2013

Carolina Global Photography Competition Calendar, Chapel Hill, NC

Creative Quarterly 32 Online

Vitiello, Chris. "Empathy and Ritual in Art Cakes at UNC.", INDY. INDY, 5 Dec. 2013. Web.

"Love/Hate, Private/Public, Inside/Outside, Gay/Straight." Love/Hate, Private/Public, Inside/Outside, Gay/Straight: An Exhibit Featuring the Works of LGBTQ Artists Living in North Carolina. Durham Arts Place, Aug. 2012. Web. 26 Jan. 2014.

Meyer, Deborah R. "'Love/Hate' and More at Durham Arts Place." News and Observer. N&O, 18 Aug. 2012. Web.

Cover of the Cellar Door, The Undergraduate Literary Magazine of the University of North Carolina, Fall 2012

Performance Workshop with Erin Markey. Pittsburgh, PA

OSHER Presentation. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Too Soon Two: MFA Lecture Series. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Too Soon: MFA Lecture Series. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

MFA Lecture Series. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

NY Times Portfolio Review. CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, NY, NY

Participant in Dark Hour/Light Moment. Anthony Goicolea, NY, NY

Presentation of Blood Harmony. UNC Art Department Honors Symposium

Artist Talk, Blood Harmony. Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

Collaboration with Paul Swartzel’s Doctoral Dissertation, Barbeque Man Unleashed: The Greatest Professional Wrestling Work Of All Time. Duke University, Durham, NC

Photography Assistant for Gesche Wuerfel. MFA at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Presentation and Artist Lecture. ART 105, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Participant in MFA Performance, Anna Delgado. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Gray Style & Photographic Solutions, Founder

Summer Intensive Studies Faculty, Photography: Analog and Digital, Parsons School of Design

Carnegie Mellon Pre-College Instructor, Digital Photography

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University

Archival Assistant - Luhring Augustine

Studio Assistant - Anthony Goicolea

Personal Assistant - Joseph English - ncpottery.com

Personal Assistant - Diego Cortez

Freelance

Photographer Missy McLamb - Assistant

Eldridge & Woodall Weddings and Events - Assistant