ROY LAGRONE
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, 1966.
Education: Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, B.F.A., 1989.
Tougaloo Art Colony, Jackson, MS, 1999. 
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, M.F.A., 2000.
Lives and works in the UK.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009      Galleria Comunale della Loggia, Pieces of the All,
              Motta di Livenza, Italy (solo)

              Mestna Galerija, (Not) a Photograph, Piran, Slovenia

2008      Gumtree Museum of Art, The Beauty of the Impossible, Tupelo, MS (solo)

              Casello di Guardia, Donne, Porcia, Italy

2007      Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Sun Pictures to MegaPixels:
              Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities, Brooklyn, NY

2006      Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Beta Projections and Artifacts from
              Earth, San Antonio, TX (solo)

2005      City Gallery, Pixel Pops: Prepare, Post, Present, New Haven, CT

2004      Cultural Center Pablo of the Torriente Brau, VI Salón y Coloquio
              Internacional de Arte Digital, Havana, Cuba

              Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Soultronic,
              Jersey City, NJ (solo)

              Savannah College of Art and Design, La Galerie Bleue, Faculty Focus:
              Digital Media, Savannah, GA

2003      Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Museum, New Visions: Emerging
              Trends in African American Art, Washington, DC

              ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, CG03: Computer Graphics_2003,
              San Diego, CA

              Rush Arts Gallery, Impregnable Direction, New York, NY

2002      Hammonds House Gallery and Resource Center, Archetypes, Modules
              and Sermons, Atlanta, GA (solo)

              Hampton University Museum, New Power Generation, Hampton, VA

              BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture Center, Reverberation:
              Visual Art and DJ Culture, Brooklyn, NY

              Dillard University Fine Art Gallery, Digital Diaspora, New Orleans, LA

2001      University Museum, Texas Southern University, Our New Day Begun,
              Houston, TX

2000      African American Museum, Our New Day Begun, Dallas, TX

              Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum,
              Our New Day Begun: African American Artists Entering the New
              Millenium, Austin, TX

AWARDS and RECOGNITION

Telfair Museum of Art, The Telfair Spotlight on Art, Savannah, GA, 2004.
Hampton University Museum, The Elizabeth Catlett Printmaking Award, 2002.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cotton, C. Richard. "GumTree Museum of Art." DeSoto Magazine, September, 2008.
Morris, M. Scott. “Hometown artist's debut opens Friday.” Northeast Mississippi
Daily Journal, July 30, 2008.
Santin, Alessandra. “Digital Catalysts: Roy LaGrone's Experiments for Universal
Becoming.” Trans. Anna De Vita, Beauty of the Impossible catalogue, July 5, 2008.
Meek, Vicki. “Roy LaGrone: Beta Projections and Artifacts from Earth.”
ArtLies Magazine, Spring, 2007.
Hammel, Frank. “Used, Discarded, and Crackling with Vision.” The San Antonio
Current, January 3, 2007.
R. Goddard, Dan. “Artist Roy LaGrone Uses a Computer to Reshape Found Objects.”
The San Antonio Express-News, November 26, 2006.
Lorenzo Wellington, Darryl. “The art of Roy LaGrone.” Beta Projections and Artifacts
from Earth catalogue, September 29, 2006.
M. Scott, Julia. “Heritage in His Art.” The Jersey Journal, February 7, 2004.
Sipp, Kevin. “Of Ancestors and Androids: The Virtual Works of Roy LaGrone.”
Soultronic catalogue, January 26, 2004.
Robinson, P.J. “Where Do We Go From Here? Contemporary African-American
Artists Answer.” The Metro Herald, January 9, 2004.
Hall, Robert L. “New Visions on Exhibit at Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum.”
Valentine New York The Magazine, Winter, 2003.
Sirmans, Franklin. “Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center.” Sculpture Magazine,
January-February, 2003.
Aberjhani. “DarkMagusMilesAhead.” Essence Magazine, January, 2003.
Fox, Catherine. “Digging Digital: Prints Have Richly Textural Resonance.”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 11, 2002.
Forster, Steven. “Digital U.” The Times-Picayune, March 25, 2001.
Bass, Shermakaye. “’New Day’ arrives at LBJ.” The Austin American-Statesman,
February 19, 2000.
Randall, Zoe. “Painting the Sounds of Jazz.” Connect Savannah, December, 1999.

COLLECTIONS

Comune di Motta di Livenza, Motta di Livenza, Italy
Cultural Center Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba
Gumtree Museum of Art, Tupelo, MS
Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, GA
Municipality of Porcia, Porcia, Italy
Palazzo Conti Toppo-Wassermann, Toppo di Travesio, Italy
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Private Collections