Billi London-Gray
Billi London-Gray (she/they) is an intermedia artist from Wylie, TX, whose work examines how ideals of equality are tested, performed and undermined in everyday life. Their work spans installations, videos, sculptures, books, zines, buttons, mail art, sound compositions, social exchanges, photographs, drawings, walks, forts, and Kid-Billi forms of play, treating media as flexible tools for social and conceptual inquiry. Across their practice and teaching, London-Gray is interested in how structures shape participation, attention and collective experience. In the classroom, they treat Foundations as a space where students learn to think through materials, systems and experimentation across media. They live, work, collect underwear-shaped rocks, and serve two cats in north Texas.
London-Gray has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. Their work has been supported by a Puffin Foundation Grant, the San Marcos Arts Advocacy Award, the McDowell Center Innovative Project Award and the Barnett Foundation Ideas in Art Award. London-Gray also co-founded the itinerant art space Zosima Gallery and the feminist collective Sister Death.
Education
M.F.A. Intermedia Studio, The University of Texas at Arlington
M.A. Liberal Arts, St. John’s College
B.A. Biblical Studies, Criswell College
Recent Work
Select Exhibitions
2026
Artemisia Tridentata: From Rugged Soil, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX (Curator: Aubrey Edwards)
Outside Office Hours, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY (Juror: Véronique Côté)
2025
Uncensored: The Art of Politics, CFA Gallery at Valley City State University, Valley City, ND (Curator: Gratia Brown)
Dwellings, ArtLink Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (Juror: Ellen Mensch) 2024
(Solo) Forts, River Annex Gallery, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO (Juror: Dr. Joni Hand)
(Solo) Fort Necessities, SAS Gallerie, Shreveport, LA (Juror: Eric Hess)
Video Art Festival in Virtual Reality, Gallery Omnibus, Dresden, Germany (Curator: Florian Althoff)
ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Curators: Karen Gutfreund and Elizabeth Addison)
2023
Winter Solstice 23. Sunrise. Midday. Sunset. Encounters. ArtWorks.edu.com, an online exhibition of land-based practices on the Winter Solstice (Curator: Kel Portman)
TCU 150, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX, an invitational exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Texas Christian University (Curator: Sara-Jayne Parsons)
2022
Midwest Video Poetry Festival, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin (Curator: Genia Daniels)
The Shore of a Day, Lincoln Arts Institute, Lincoln, Illinois, a film screening on Sept. 2 in association with the exhibition Inhabiting Rivers, Unfinishing Circles (Curator: Lease Agreement/Adda Farcus)
Select Presentations
2026
“Serendipity as a Teaching Strategy,” presentation for the Mid-America College Art Association Biannual Conference, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, March 27
2025
“A-B-C-D-What-the-F: Alternative Grading Techniques,” a panel organized with Christine Adame for the FATE Biannual Conference, Washington, DC, April 10
2024
“Speed Dating: AI in Foundational Art Classes,” presentation for the Wyoming Innovations in Learning Annual Conference panel, “Using AI for Good, Not Evil, in UW Artland,” moderated by Billi London-Gray, Casper, WY, October 21
“Forts, Studio Practices, and Social Sauce,” artist talk, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, Sept. 6
“From Generative Fiction to Glass Mosaics: Using AI for Good, not Evil, in Art Foundations,” presentation for the Mid-America College Art Association Biannual Conference panel, “Teaching Digital Art in the Age of Machine Learning,” moderated by Zen Cohen, Auburn, AL, March 21
2023
“Zines! Zines! Zines!” presentation for the American Print History Association Annual Conference panel, “Altered Books to Zines: Making Worlds,” moderated by Christine Adame, Austin, TX,
October 14
“Poop, Gold, and a Cult: Residencies as Long-Term Catalysts for Serious Play,” presentation for the FATE Annual Conference panel, “Rebooting Creative Practice: Artist Residencies and Cross-Discipline E-Residencies,” moderated by Jojin Van Winkle, Denver, CO, April 13
Residencies
2023
Fiskars AIR, Fiskars Village, Finland (December 1-31) Sanctuary Glass Studio, Shreveport, LA (June 14-21)
2022
Referent: Cynosure in Psychogeography, Arts Letters & Numbers, virtual via Averill Park, NY (July 17-23)
2021
The Residency Project, Silverton, CO (Postponed from 2020, rescheduled June 11-25)
2017
AIR Frosterus, Kärsämäki, Finland (June 8 - July 7)
2016
Residencia Corazón, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 2 - July 3) 2015
Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing, Art and the Environment, Medina, TX (May 10-24)
2014
Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing, Art and the Environment, Medina, TX (November 8-16) Petrified Forest National Park, AZ (July 27 - August 10)
