Rob Gray, a.k.a. silly rob childish, (born 1984 in Chertsey, England and raised in Karlsruhe, Germany) is an English painter, performer and recording artist living in Belmont, CA. Rob established The Artshole as an Isla Vista house venue in 2007 and moved out in 2008.
Rob received his BA from the Honors Art program at the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 2007. He was a member of the first Ventura Poetry Slam team to compete in the National Poetry Slam Competition in August 2006. He was a founding member of SOTU Productions, a Ventura based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the arts in Ventura County. He is also the co-founder of Minus The Masses Records and the Artshole Collective.
To date, Rob has recorded ten albums with the intelligent turtles, two albums with the Peat Bog Soldiers, a handful of odd demos and live recordings with VIRGINS and eleven solo albums under his pseudonym, silly rob childish. He has also produced two EP’s for L’aeiou, aka The Vowels. His paintings, drawings and artist books have been exhibited all around Isla Vista and Santa Barbara, in venues such as Gallery 1434, the Artshole, the AFS Gallery, Reel Loud Film Festival, Silvergreens, I.V. Spot and the Green Room.
