Artist Roy LaGrone was born in 1966 in Tupelo, Mississippi. He earned a bachelor of fine arts from Atlanta College of Arts in 1989, spent time in the Tougaloo Art Colony in 1999, and received a master of fine arts from the Savannah College of Arts and Design in 2000.
LaGrone resides in Italy and produces digital art. His work is in collections in the Gumtree Museum of Art in Tupelo, Mississippi; Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia; Hartsfield Interional Airport in Atlanta, Georgia; Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC; and other locations in Cuba, Slovenia, Italy and the U.S.