Grayson Perry Chelmsford, Essex, England, b. 1960

Born in Chelmsford in 1960, Grayson Perry lives and works in London.

Perry holds a diploma in Art and Design from Braintree College and completed his studies at the University of Portsmouth. He won the Turner Prize in 2003 and has received awards from the Royal Academy of Arts and the Board of Trustees of the British Museum. He is also Chancellor of the University of the Arts London.

Perry’s work addresses universal themes such as identity, gender, status, sexuality, and religion, while also standing out for its careful scrutiny of British society and its class system. In this way, the artist explores social tastes and aversions, approaching a kind of anthropology through Claire, his transvestite alter ego, and working with traditional techniques such as ceramics, casting, printmaking, and tapestry, as well as through audiovisual media. His series All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry documents the creation of six tapestries that reveal the ethics and aesthetics of British society.

Perry has presented his work in numerous solo exhibitions at venues such as the Serpentine Galleries, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, London; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Garth Clark Gallery, New York.

He has also participated in group exhibitions in Europe, Japan, and the United States. His works are held in collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Arts Council and British Council Collections; the Tate Collection; the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan; and the Luxembourg Museum of Art, among others.