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Kathy Grayson
Kathy Grayson is an art dealer and curator based in New York City. She is the founder and director of The Hole, a commerical gallery space located on the Bowery.

Early Life & Education
Grayson studied at Sidwell Friends graduating in 1998. She then studied Art History & Painting at Dartmouth Collge in New Hampshire, founding a college gallery space called Area and presenting curated shows investigating computer based art. Area has been operational on campus since this time.

Career
After interning at the Whitney Museum for the Joan Mitchell retrospective, she encountered Chris Johannsons work in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, who was then exhibiting with Jeffrey Deitch. In September 2002 she began working at Deitch Projects on the Johansson exhibition.

Grayson began curating shows in New York, first at Brooklyn Fireproof which received an early review in the New York Times by Roberta Smith. Following this she began curating shows at Deitch Projects. Artists she was influential in bringing to the gallery included Cory Arcangel, Dan Colen, Tauba Auerbach, Misaki Kawai, Dash Snow, Terrence Koh, Aurel Schmidt, Rossin Crow, Brian Bellott, Joe Bradley and many others.

Grayson was advisor for the Dakis Joannou works on paper collection presenting a large exhibition at the Deste Musuem in 2006 called Panic Room. She has curated shows at The Bergen Kunsthalle, The Macro Musuem in Rome, The Garage Center in Moscow. She has also presented shows at Peres Projects Berlin, Max Wigram London, AMP Athens, Kim Light Gallery LA and Oh Wow Miami among others.

When Deitch Projects closed in 2009 Kathy left as Director and opened her own commerical gallery The Hole.

The Hole
The first show at The Hole was titled Not Quite Open For Business in 2009 and included all unfinished artworks by artists such as Nate Lowman, Michael Williams, Rossin Crow, Aurel Schmidt, Barry McGee, Jules de Balincourt, Xylor Jane, Eddie Martinez and Andrew Kuo.

The gallery is well known for it’s large thematic group shows that often include a transformation of the gallery environment.