Saul Gray-Hildenbrand was born In Petosky, MI, in 1977. He received his BFA from Grand Valley State University in 2000, and studied sculpture at Kingston University, Surbiton, England, in 1999.   

Saul works in a variety of media from oil painting to ceramic sculpture. His work is influenced by folk and modern art.  Saul's paintings, drawings, and sculptures are a reaction to the world around him - sometimes mundane, sometimes ironic, and sometimes absurd, with a sprinkling of dark humor and misanthropy. The figures often reside in an ambiguous space, and their expressions come from observations of people in public spaces. The artist is attracted to anonymous figures and open narratives.

Saul's daily cartoon blog, The Bellicose and the Bucoli,c can be found at www.city2.org. He is also the head-preparator at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.