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Photo by Daniel Stelly, 2023

Artist, Designer, Educator

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Elena Gray (b.1998) is currently based in Ferndale, Michigan. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who combines screen printing, painting, and photography to create works that oscillate between graphic and cinematic visuals. Her work delves into themes of girlhood, memory, gaze, and home in the American Midwest through layered personal photographs that both reference and defy the digital matrix through which they are rendered. She studied printmaking at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI, graduating in 2020. In 2019, she relocated to Detroit, where she began working as an educator at Cranbrook Art Museum. She received her BFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2025.
   Through split compositions, she fuses feminine figural imagery with colors and textures that evoke light. Her freelance work as a graphic designer and screen printer influenced her work towards saturated color combinations and graphic distortion. She integrates the halftone dots of screen-printed graphics with soft, hand-rendered details, creating a visual tension between the tactile reality of my subjects and the pixelated, digital aesthetic of a screen. 
   These layered works serve as fragmented snapshots of a personal history—both collected and constructed—exploring the idea of home as a place constantly defined by movement and distance. By blending shifting perspectives and contrasting imagery, she crafts work that invites viewers to reflect on memory, identity, and belonging.

Education

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September 2023 – May 2025            Master of Fine Art from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

August 2016 – May 2020                  Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Kendall College of Art and                                                                                    Design, Grand Rapids, MI

 

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April 2025                                              Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum

                                                                   Bloomfield Hills, MI

February 2025                                      Annexxx 2, Annex Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

January 2025                                        Multiples, Forum Gallery, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

December 2024                                     Selling to the Smiths, Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House, Bloomfield Hills, MI

December 2024                                    Winner, Forum Gallery, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

September 2024                                    Detroit Art Book Fair, Trinosophes, Detroit, MI

July 2024                                                Other Selves curator and participant, Flagstar Strand, Pontiac, MI

May 2024                                               No Excuses for Negligence, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

February 2024                                      Annexxx, Annex Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

November 2023                                     Chicken Show, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

September 2023                                   Detroit Art Book Fair, Trinosophes, Detroit, MI

August 2021                                          WEVOLVE Fundraising Art Sale, Spotlite, Detroit, MI

November 2019                                    Juried group exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI

November 2019                                     Kendall College of Art and Design group printmaking exhibition, Grand                                                                               Rapids, MI 

September 2019                                    RAD Women public art project muralist, Grand Rapids, MI

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