Kenny Gray was Director of the Columbus State University Rankin Photography Center, in Columbus, GA, from 2011-2024.

Selected Awards

2014 Juror's Award: First Place, Plastic Fantastic, International Exhibit, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR

2013 Honorable Mention, Slow Exposures, Concord, GA.

2013 Waverly Hall Art Group Award, Columbus Artists Guild, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University

2010 Honorable Mention, Slow Exposures, Concord, GA.

2009 Honorable Mention, Slow Exposures, Concord, GA.

2006 First Place, Riverfest Fine Art Exhibition, Columbus, GA.

1999 First Place, LaGrange Artists Guild, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA.

1996 Purchase Award, LaGrange National Biennial, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA.

1985 Committee Award, Photography '85, Abington Arts Center, Jenkintown, PA.

1984 Finalist, Challenge Competition, Fleisher Arts Memorial, Philadelphia, PA.

1982 Honorable Mention, Portfolio Magazine International Competition

Permanent Collections

Columbus State University Archives, Columbus, GA.

LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA.

Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA.

Solo Exhibitions

2024 My Southside, 1977-1992, Do Good Fund Gallery, Columbus, GA.

2015 Kenny Gray: Selected Photographs 1994-2014, CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center, Columbus, GA

1998 Kenny Gray: Selected Photographs 1978-1998, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA.

1985 Brownie Hawkeye: A Photographer's Journal, The Book Trader Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

Selected Exhibitions

2014 Plastic Fantastic V, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon

2014 Columbus Artists Guild, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University

2014 Desire: Ten Photographers, Columbus State University Rankin Arts Photography Center, Columbus, GA.

2014 Linwood: Twenty Photographers, Columbus State University Rankin Arts Photography Center, Columbus, GA.

2013 Slow Exposures, Concord, GA.

2013 Columbus Artists Guild, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University

2012 Slow Exposures, Concord, GA.

2012 Jane Jackson Selects, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA.

2010 Slow Exposures, Concord, GA.

2009 A Break in the Battle/Tattoo Project, installation in a vacant commercial space on Broadway, Columbus, GA.

2009 Slow Exposures, Concord, GA.

2006 Riverfest Fine Art Exhibition, Columbus, GA.

1999 LaGrange Artists Guild, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA.

1996 LaGrange National Biennial, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA.

1984 Photography '85, Abington Arts Center, Jenkintown, PA.

1984 Philadelphia Photographers, Janvier Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, NJ

1983 The Center of the Eye, Aspen, CO

1978 Photography Southeast, Piedmont Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA.

Teaching

2006-24 Columbus State University Rankin Arts Photography Center

1991-2001 Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.

1994-98 LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA.

1984 Visiting Artist, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA.

1982-85 Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA.