Upcoming Exhibitions
10 Years 10 Artists, Wright Gallery, College Statin, TX, 1/23- 3/5, 2024 (Group)
Double Take, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH, 2/3- 4/6, 2024 (Three-persons)
Solo Exhibitions
2023 諸行無常_This too, shall pass, The Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Broward College, Davie, FL
2023 七転び八起き_Fall seven times, get up eight, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
2023 Don't Push the River, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2023 急がば回れ_Hurry Slowly, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2023 諸行無常_This too, shall pass, Arts Visalia Visual Art Center, Visalia, CA
2022 Mayuko Ono Gray Solo Exhibition, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
2022 諸行無常_This too, shall pass, Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center, Kilgore, TX
2022 諸行無常_This too, shall pass, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI
2022 諸行無常_This too, shall pass, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2021 諸行無常_This too, shall pass, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
2021 見て分からんものは聞いても分からん_a picture is worth a thousand words, Wright Gallery, College Station, TX
2021 喉元過ぎれば熱さも忘れる_Down the throat, heat forgotten, East Central College Art Gallery, Union, MO
2021 喉元過ぎれば熱さも忘れる_Down the throat, heat forgotten, South Texas College Art Gallery, McAllen, TX
2020 知らぬが花_Blissful Ignorance, Georgetown Art Center, TX
2020 となりの花はあかい_The Rose is Always Redder Next Door, College of Southern Nevada Art Space Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2019 諸行無常_This too, shall pass, O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston Downtown, TX
2019 Anything that Takes a Form will Break Sooner or Later, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX
2019 Anything that Takes a Form will Break Sooner or Later, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN
2018 Domestic Zen, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2017 形あるものいつかは壊れる: Anything that takes a form will break sooner or later, Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
2016 言わぬが花_Silence is the Flower, Sul Ross State University Art Gallery, Alpine, TX
2016 The Impermanence of Flowers Makes Them More Beautiful, Terminal 136, University of Texas San Antonio, TX
2016 Ars longa, vita brevis, Galeria La Mano Mágica, Oaxaca, Mexico
2015 出会いは別れの始め_Hello is the beginning of good-bye, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2014 疑心暗鬼_Suspicious Mind Creates the Dark Monster, Lone Star College North Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
2012 心は巧みな絵師の如し“Un corazón es un artista iluminado”, Cuatro contemporáneo, Oaxaca, Mexico
2012 Seasons, Lone Star College Kingwood Art Gallery, TX
2012 Reflection of Self in You, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2011 Following the Path, Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College Montgomery, Conroe, TX
2011 Japanese Calligraphy My Way, Galveston Arts Center, TX
2011 Japanese Calligraphy My Way- Caligrafia japonesa a mi manera, Galeria 910, Oaxaca, Mexico
2009 Midnight Skinny-Dipping, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2007 Pisces, The Project Gallery, University of Houston Main Campus, Houston, TX
Group/Two/Three-Persons Exhibitions
2023 Parting Lines, Greenville Center for Creative Arts, Greenville, SC
2023 Making Space/Holding Time, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
2023 38th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Heuser Gallery, Peoria, IL
2022 Bearing Witness, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
2022 Athens Open Art, Art Number 23, Athens, Greece
2022 Fresh Form, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
2022 COHABITATION:2022, Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, TX
2022 Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Annual Open Exhibition 2022, Conwy, United Kingdom
2021 Venice International Art Fair, THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, Venice, Italy
2021 The Box- Invitational Themed Exhibition, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2021 Red Dot, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
2021 New Works 2021, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2021 Unmasked: A Virtual Exhibition, Texas Associations of Schools of Art, TX
2021 Tokyo International Art Fair, BELLESALLE ROPPONGI, Tokyo Japan
2021 Summer 2021 Group Show, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2021 BBA Artist Prize 2021, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021 Black & White, Art Room Gallery, Virtual
2021 Art Faculty Exhibition, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
2020 Art in the Time of Corona Virus and Social Distancing, Circle Foundation for the Arts
2020 Recording History, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD
2020 Artovation 2020:A Virtual Exhibition, (STexas Associations of Schools of Art,TX
2020 The 6th. Annual Autumnal, ARTHOUSE.NYC, NY
2020 COVER ART: MASK AUCTION, Women and Their Work, Austin,TX
2020 Women's Essence Show 2020, MUSA International Art Space, Rome, Italy
2019 Mayuko Ono Gray and Naomi Velasquez, Metropolitan CommunityCollege Gallery, Elkhorn, NE
2019 Cheers to 50! Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2019 Art Faculty Exhibition, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
2019 Bay Area Houston Community College Faculty Exhibition 2019, UHCL Art Gallery, Houston, TX
2019 BLACK & WHITE: a fine art collective, Envision Art Show, TX
2019 A Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Indiana University Kokomo Downtown Art Gallery, IN
2018 Shape-Shifter: Drawing from Observation, Beatrice M. Haggerty Art Gallery, Universtiy of Dallas, TX
2017 Dusk to Dawn, The Martha Fenstermaker Memorial Visual Arts Gallery, Laredo, TX
2017 Art Faculty Exhibition, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
2016 Twenty Five: A Celebration, Curated by Clint Willour, Galveston Arts Center, TX
2015 Art Faculty Exhibition, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
2015 TASA One Foot Exhibition, Texas Tech University Satellite gallery at LHUCA, Lubbock, TX
2015 Mujer Arte Oaxaqueño, Galeria La Mano Mágica, Oaxaca, Mexico
2015 UNITY, Ben Bailey Gallery, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX
2015 Poetry Scores Hawaii- Look Like What It Means, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, HI
2014 The City of Houston Citizenship Month Exhibition, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX
2014 Art Faculty Exhibition, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
2013 Sculpted Words- Sculpted Figures:The Graphite Drawings of Mayuko Ono Gray and Mark Greenwalt, Yellow Cube Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Galveston Hangs, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
2012 The City of Houston Citizenship Week Art Exhibition, City Hall Annex Building, Houston, TX
2012 The Evolution of Languages, Mural installation in collaboration with Mark Greenwalt, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Mexico
2012 Faculty Exhibition, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
2011 The Book, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2009 Masterworks, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2008 Drawing Room, Curated by Clint Willour, Galveston Arts Center, TX
2007 Master Thesis Show, The Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston Main Campus, TX
2006 Caged Fish and Glory Holes, The Law Office, Houston, TX
2006 Danse de la Paix, The Law Office, Houston, TX
2005 Houston 7, Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX
2004 Diverse Painting Exhibition, University Center, University of Houston Main Campus, TX
Public Collection
Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE
University of Hawaii at Hilo, HI
Lone Star College Kingwood, Kingwood, TX
Commission
2016 Madame Butterfly, Houston Ballet, Houston, TX
Bibliography
2023 Meet Mayuko Ono Gray, Canvas Rebel, https://canvasrebel.com/meet-mayuko-ono-gray/
2023 Staying in the Moment: Mayuko OnoGray at Galveston Arts Center, Arts and Culture Texas
2022 These are our favorite Southeast Texas art exhibitions from 2022,Beaumont Enterprise,
2022 Glasstire's best of 2022, https://glasstire.com/2022/12/13/glasstires-best-of-2022/
2021 Sketch of LifeTogether, by Sarah Ridley, Glasstire.com
https://glasstire.com/2022/03/15/a-sketch-of-life-together-mayuko-ono-gray-and-mark-greenwalt/
2021 Top 5, Glasstire.com https://glasstire.com/2021/10/14/top-five-oct-14-2021/
2021 Studio Visit Magazine Vol. 48, page 77
2021 Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 23, Circle Foundation for the Arts
2020 Artist Interview, November2020, NYC Phoenix Art
2020 COVER ART: MASK AUCTIONcatalog, page 7, Women and Their Works, Austin TX
2020 Spotlight Magazine issue #19, page 81, Circle Foundation for the Arts
2020 Woman'sEssence, page 146, MUSA International Art Space, Rome, Italy
2020 Art Collector's Choice/ Japan Contemporary Art Station publishing
2019 Contemporary Art Station Interview
2019 100 Artists of the Future Vol.1, Comtemporary Art Curator Magazing publishing
2019 "Meet Mayuko Ono Gray" Voyage Houston Magazine
2018 University of Dallas News
2018 Contemporary art curator magazine, June
2017 "Why We're Here", Galveston Daily News
2016 TWENTY FIVE: A CELEBRATION Catalog, page 33, Galveston Arts Center
2016 San Antonio Current "Seven Shows not to Miss"
2015 "'Obsessive Compulsive Order' punctuates artist's work" Galveston Daily News
2014 Studio Visit Magazine Vol. 27
2012 Studio Visit Magazine Vol. 18
2011 TV Interview, TV Azteca, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
2009 Radio Interview “Front Row” KUHF 88.7 FM, Houston, TX
Awards
2021 Finalist, BBA Artist Prize, Berlin,Germany
2021 First Prize, Unmasked: A Virtual Exhibition, Texas Associations of Schools of Art, TX
2020 Second Prize, Artovation 2020: A Virtual Exhibition, Texas Associations of Schools of Art, TX
2020 Third place, Art in the Time of Corona Virus and Social Distancing, Circle Foundation for the Arts
Gallery Representations
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston TX, USA
Galeria 910, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Education
2007 Master of Fine Arts degree, Painting, University of Houston Main Campus, Houston, TX
Awards: Andrew Delaney Fellowship, 2006-2007, Dolores Welder Mitchell Scholarship, 2005-2006
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Painting, University of Houston Main Campus, Houston, TX
Awards: Helen A. Krause Endowed Scholarship, 2003-2004, Dean’s Honor List
Employment
2022 - 2022 Instructor, The Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
2011 - 2022 Director, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
2008 - 2022 Adjunct Professor of Art, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
2012 - 2015 Director, Japan Study Abroad Program, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
2010 - 2011 Interim Director, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX
2005 - 2007 Teaching Fellowship/Instructor, University of Houston Main Campus, Houston, TX
Other Professional Experience
2023 Juror,I-Park International Artist Residency, East Haddam, CT
2021 Artist talk, Fresh from the studio, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
2021 Guest juror, Georgetown Art Center, TX
2016 - 2021 Member, Texas Association of Schools of Art
2019 Juror, 19th. Student Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Community College, Elkhorn, NE
2016 - 2018 Advisory Board, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
2017 Juror, Rio Grande Arts Festival, Laredo, TX
2017 Art Lecture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
2014 Lecture, Art Lecture Series, Lone Star College North Harris, Houston, TX
2013 Lecture, Conversation at the Center, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
2012 Juror, Student Art Show, Lone Star College Kingwood, Kingwood, TX
2006 Juror, Texas Art Education Association Visual Art Scholastic Event (V.A.S.E. program) Houston, TX