Grayson Perry Grayson Perry Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles". Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as "Claire", his female alter-ego, and "Alan Measles", his childhood teddy bear, often appear. He has made a number of documentary television programmes and has curated
Grayson Perry exhibitions. He has published two autobiographies, "Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl" (2007) and "The Descent of Man" (2016), written and illustrated a graphic novel, "Cycle of Violence" (2012), written a book about art, "Playing to the Gallery" (2014), and published his illustrated "Sketchbooks" (2016). Various books describing his work have been published. In 2013 he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. Perry has had solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, at the Barbican Centre, the British Museum and Serpentine Gallery in London, the Arnolfini in Bristol, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and at the 21st