30 Facts About Alex Grey

Alex Grey was born on November 29,1953 and is an American visual artist, author, teacher, and Vajrayana practitioner known for creating spiritual and psychedelic artwork such as his 21-painting Sacred Mirrors series.

Alex Grey is on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department.

Alex Grey attended the Columbus College of Art and Design for two years before dropping out.

Alex Grey reported that the LSD was initially given to him by his professor.

Alex Grey learned anatomy by working to prepare cadavers for dissection at Harvard Medical School's anatomy department, a position he held for five years.

Alex Grey worked as a medical illustrator for approximately ten years in order to support his studio art practice.

Alex Grey taught anatomy and figure sculpture at New York University for a period of ten years.

Alex Grey is best known for his psychedelic paintings and illustrations.

In 1986 Alex Grey's artwork was exhibited at the New Museum in New York City.

Alex and Allyson Grey have worked collaboratively and have openly supported the use of entheogens.

That same year, Alex Grey was noticed by guitarist Adam Jones of the progressive metal band Tool, who later featured his artwork on their albums Lateralus and 10,000 Days.

Illustrations created by Alex Grey have been selected to appear on albums for musical groups such as the Beastie Boys and Nirvana, as well as Meshuggah and The String Cheese Incident.

Alex Grey's images have been printed onto sheets of blotter acid and have been used on flyers to promote Rave events.

Alex Grey's artwork has been exhibited worldwide, including at Feature Inc.

Alex Grey has been a keynote speaker at conferences in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Basel, Barcelona and Manaus.

Alex Grey founded the Foundation for Sacred Mirrors, a 5013 as a place to permanently display the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

The CoSM featured 20 life-size paintings of standing human figures Alex Grey created in the early 1980s.

Alex Grey's paintings are a blend of sacred art, visionary art, postmodern art and psychedelic art.

Alex Grey is best known for his paintings of glowing anatomical human bodies, images that "x-ray" the multiple layers of reality.

Alex Grey's art is a complex integration of body, mind, and spirit.

Alex Grey applies this multidimensional perspective to paint the universal human experience.

Alex Grey's figures are shown in positions such as praying, meditating, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth, and death.

Alex Grey's paintings are permeated with an intense and subtle light.

Alex Grey promotes the mystical potential of art and argues that the process of artistic creation has an important role to play in the enlightenment of both the artist and the broader culture.

Alex Grey co-edited the book, Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics.

Alex Grey has published a 10 volume journal that features his own artistic works and the works of other visionary thinkers and philosophers.

Alex Grey appeared in the 2006 film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within, a documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world.

Alex Grey appeared in the film DMT: The Spirit Molecule, in which he talked about the importance of the substance DMT in the past and present world, as well as describing some of his personal experiences with the substance and how it influenced his painting.

In 2008, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Alex Grey lived in New York City with his wife, painter Allyson Alex Grey.

Alex Grey is a member of the Integral Institute, formed by his friend Ken Wilber.