BIO
Ashley Gray (born in UK) is a digital artist working under the name Human. Their work explores themes of memory, identity, and emotional resonance through layered abstraction and digital manipulation. With a background in Multimedia and a Master’s degree in Games Art, Gray’s practice blends contemporary technology with inner, often unspoken, emotional states.

Their work has been exhibited in international group shows across Europe and the US and featured in publications such as Contemporary Art Curator, Creativepool, and Art Dealer Street. In 2025, they were awarded the Premier Artist Prize by Contemporary Art Station.

Human’s current practice centers on building an independent ecosystem of art, connection, and digital storytelling.

Hands holding a human heart with lightning bolt patterns, in a blue tone, emphasizing the heart's vitality.

Blue Heart Forever (2017)

ZBrush + Photoshop
A meditation on the quiet endurance of the human spirit. This work reflects the shared weight of hardship and a persistent, understated faith in resilience. A glowing blue heart, veins of white light radiating from its core, rests in the artist’s hands, suspended against a black void. The darkness suggests a reality indifferent to suffering, while the heart emits an emoji‑shaped glow, a small sign of connection within emptiness.

Multiple artistic hands reaching upwards against a black background, with some hands appearing in grayscale and others in color.

Distress Signals (2020)

ZBrush + Photoshop
Created during a moment of global upheaval, this piece reflects on solidarity and reversal of values in times of crisis. Against a field of darkness pierced by a single heavenly white ray, hands grasping, reaching, supporting, and straining toward the light. The frail, outstretched hand at the apex becomes a symbol of sacrifice rather than perceived value, sacrifice that is often overlooked.

Selected Recognition

Premier Artist Prize, Contemporary Art Station, 2025

Art Market Expert, Selected Artist, 2025

Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Interview Feature, 2025

International Cultural Management, Artistra Index, 2025

Creativepool, top 25 Digital artist

The New Protagonists of the Contemporary, Effetto Arte, 2025

Selected Media

Creativepool – Interview

AATONAU – Sculpting Identity in the Orbit of Recognition 

Contemporary Art Curator – Interview Feature

Artist Close-Up – Interview

Contemporary Art Collectors – Noble Art Conversations

Contact
Ashley Gray mrashgray@gmail.com
artofagray.squarespace.com
@human3D

A skeleton with multiple arms in a meditative pose, sitting cross-legged with a glowing circle of colorful lines holographically above it.

Seat of the Crown (2019)

ZBrush + Photoshop
An allegory of ego, pride, and the seductive power of false promises. This figure, a skeletal being seated cross‑legged with six meditative hands and a glowing seventh‑chakra eye, evokes both divinity and destruction. Set upon a sheet of ice stretching to faint, barren hills, the work hints at a collective surrender of clarity to confusion and self‑undoing.

A faceless child in a hoodie, surrounded by glowing particles and light, creating a digital or cosmic scene.

Ethereal Blue (2015)

ZBrush + Photoshop
A visual reflection on essence, light, and the quiet resistance of presence in emptiness. A luminous boy, cloaked in a blue hoodie, emerges from a star-filled void, light and star encircle his hands, suggesting a magnetic quality to human warmth, even when suspended in isolation. The work hints at the power of being seen, and how even the softest presence can reshape the void around it.

Artist Statement – Human (Ashley Gray)
I don’t try to represent things exactly as they are, my work comes from what’s felt but hard to explain. Emotions, memories, perceptions, the way identity shifts when no one’s looking. Digital tools let me shape that space where nothing is fixed, layers, distortions, that resemble thought more than image.

I work under the name Human to cut through the noise, to remind myself (and the viewer) that this is the only thing that truly matters, not who I am, my name or age, gender, if I like chocolate, I hope my work stands on its own for what it is, I’m just a person on this ball in space.

Art is the most honest way I’ve found to make sense of things that don’t have clear language. My aim isn’t clarity, it’s resonance. If the work sits quietly with someone and reflects something back at them, then it’s doing what it’s meant to do, together we make the art, I, just draw it.