Biography

Grayson Cox is an artist, educator, and curator based in New York and the Hudson Valley. His interdisciplinary practice moves between sculpture, printmaking, installation, and participatory work, often exploring systems of exchange, behavioral design, social architecture, and the relationship between objects and human interaction. Through tactile materials and immersive environments, Cox creates works that function as both images and interfaces—spaces for reflection, participation, and collective experience.

Cox has exhibited nationally and internationally, including projects with the New Museum, SculptureCenter, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and exhibitions in Warsaw, Tel Aviv, and Maihar, India. He is the recipient of awards including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant, the National Society of Arts & Letters Career Award, and a NYFA Emergency Grant.

In addition to his studio practice, Cox has taught for more than fifteen years at institutions including Pratt Institute, Columbia University, Yale University, and SUNY Purchase. He is also the co-founder of The Clearing, an artist-run exhibition and educational platform in Cragsmoor, New York

Curatorial Projects

2026 The Clearing is an ongoing non profit project in my woods in the Shawangunk mountains of Upstate, New York

2025 Nepo Maybe, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY

2025 Ether ^ Object,Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo, NY

2025 Meet Me In The Trees, Good Naked Gallery, The Clearing, Cragsmoor, NY

2024 Lawn Monuments, Good Naked Gallery, The Clearing, Cragsmoor, NY
2022 SVA Undergraduate Thesis Show, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2019 “New Edition: Print from the past, present, and future at Pratt” Artists: Trudy Benson, Geoff Chadsey, Angela Dufresne, Ray Johnson, Lee Krasner, Krystin McKinney, Lisa Sanditz. Curated by Grayson Cox and Caitlin Riordan.

2017 “Published by the Artist” International Print Center New York Curated by Angela Connant and Grayson Cox

2016   “MDF Blog”, Planthouse Gallery, New York, New York

2014  “MWOW”, Knockdown Center, Queens, New York

2013  Personal Propaganda, Organized by Grayson Cox, This Red Door at Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY

2009  “For You”, Artists: Paul Branca, Daniel Bozhkov, Birgit Rathsman, John Walker and Jesse Weiss, Curated by Grayson Cox, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University,          

Links

CV

Review: Brooklyn Rail

Maake Magazine Interview: https://www.maakemagazine.com/goodnaked

Schneider Museum of Art: FACETIME: Creative Industries Artist and Resident Teaching Artist
PS1 Radio Interview:https://clocktower.org/show/grayson-cox
Interview: The Water's Fine at Tanja Grunert Gallery in New York
Berlin Art Link

Christopher Stackhouse essay for “SELF Check Out”, 2015

Speechbuster Press Release, A Commission by Storefront for Art and Architecture and Collaboration with Architect Jimenez Lai, Supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation

Jon Kessler and Fia Backstrom interview/ The Water’s Fine / Gasser Grunert2012

The Water’s Fine Press Release for the 2012 Show at Gasser Grunert Gallery in Chelsea
The Waters Fine, Gasser Grunert Gallery, Pidgin Magazine Publication, Architecture School, Princeton University

Interview with Michael Rush for Clocktower Radio, 2011
NUDGE, NUDGE ME DO/////–  by Alison Guidry and Robert Rhee 2011