Greg Colson lives and works in Venice, California.  His art is marked by a jarringly direct commingling of material and conceptual elements.  In his constructed wall works, precisely rendered systems are disrupted by the physical contexts they are placed in.  While in many respects abstract, the imagery and titles of Colson’s work allude to an inventory of real world activities we engage in to get through the day.  By drawing out the poetry and humor in our social patterns, Colson suggests that there are limits to - and hazards inherent in - our obsession with efficiency, data, and analysis of every kind.  

Colson’s art has been the subject of over 40 solo exhibitions internationally, including Sperone Westwater (New York);  William Griffin Gallery (Los Angeles);  Konrad Fischer Galerie (Dusseldorf);  Cardi Gallery (Milan);  Gian Enzo Sperone (Rome);  Thomas Park Gallery (Seoul);  Baldwin Gallery (Aspen);  Krannert Art Museum (Urbana-Champaign);  Lannan Museum (Lake Worth, FL.);  and Kunsthalle Lophem (Bruges).  His work is represented in many public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York);  Museum of Modern Art (New York);  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.);  Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles);  Los Angeles County Museum of Art;  Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles);  the Panza Collection (Varese, Italy); Moderna Museet (Stockholm); and Sammlung Rosenkranz (Berlin).