Grant Collier is an American artist born into a family of artists. He learned traditional methods of painting, composition, and color theory from his father and older brother, later graduating with honors from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, where his training in fine art and storytelling first converged.
After art school, Collier worked in film and animation, creating music videos and short films for Warner Bros. Records and American Recordings before signing with DNA Films in Hollywood. His creative path eventually led him to New York, where he served as Creative Director at leading agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi and Ogilvy & Mather. Following a successful career in that field, he turned his full attention to fine art.
Now working as a multimedia artist, Collier uses painting, sculpture, and animation to examine identity, consciousness, and the body as both vessel and storyteller — a lifelong inquiry into what it means to inhabit a life. His work often begins in the real world and
drifts toward the dreamlike, much like how the poet Billy Collins describes starting in Kansas and ending in Oz. That drift, from the familiar toward the strange, is where he
feels most at home.
Selected Exhibitions
2025 — Nickey Kehoe, New York, NY
2025 — Nickey Kehoe, Los Angeles, CA
2019 — MvVo Art, New York, NY
2013 — Chase Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
2010 — Chase Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
2008 — Chase Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
2007 — EFA Studio, New York, NY
2000 — Shoal Creek Gallery, Austin, TX
1996 — Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 — Tatischeff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 — Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1990 — Mary Pickford Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA