ROY LAGRONE
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, 1966.
Education: Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, B.F.A., 1989.  
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, M.F.A., 2000.
Lives and works in Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

2007      Libreria Menini di Pellegrini, Catalizzatori Digitali: Esperimenti per
              Renderli Universali, Spilimbergo, Italy

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

2004      Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Soultronic, Jersey City, NJ

2002      Hammonds House Museum, Archetypes, Modules and Sermons
              Atlanta, GA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008      Casello di Guardia, Donne, Porcia, Italy

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

2006      Makor/Steinhart Center, URB ALT 3.0, New York, NY

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

2004      Tubman Museum, New Power Generation: Georgia, Macon, GA

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

              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      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.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, GA
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Municipality of Porcia, Porcia, Italy
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Cultural Center Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA
BossTon Communications, New York, NY