REX RAY

BORN:   1956, American/German

EDUCATION:

1988      B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
1980      University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

OVERVIEW:

Well-known San Francisco artist Rex Ray has created an extensive oeuvre in a wide variety of art forms since launching his career two decades ago. Ray's visual art-painting, collage, print works, and photography-has been exhibited in numerous one-person exhibitions and museum shows. He is also an award winning graphic artist, producing cutting edge designs for books, magazines businesses, greeting cards, posters, and CD packages.

From an early age Ray developed interests in contemporary art and music. In 1980, already using the pseudonym Rex Ray, he attended the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. In 1981 he moved to San Francisco, where he became prominent in the city's influential gay community. He earned his BFA in 1988 at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Ray's work has received the 1994 Publish Magazine Award, was selected by Swatch for his competitive designer watch series, and is represented in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He recently designed the commemorative poster for Hillary Clinton's America's Millennium Celebration in Washington, DC.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2006   Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
          Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2005   Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
          Gensler & Associates, San Francisco, CA
2004   Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
2002   Modern Book/Gallery 494, Palo Alto, CA
2001  "New Work by Rex Ray," Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2000   Peterson Hall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
          Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
1999   "Architects & Heroes," San Francisco, CA
1998   Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
1996   Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
1994   Monster Truck Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
1992   Hassel Haeseler Gallery (solo), Denver, CO
1991   "One man, one show," The Lab, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005   “Recent California Abstraction,” Monterey Museum of Modern Art, Monterey, CA
          “Neo Mod,” Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
          Bio-Objects,” San Jose Museum of Modern Art, San Jose, CA
2004   “AD 2004,” The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2002   "Together," Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
          "Housebroken," Rena Bransten Galleries, San Francisco, CA
          “Skulls,” Academy of Arts & Sciences, San Francisco, CA
2001   "FOUR," Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
          "West Coasting," Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, Broadbent Art Gallery, London
2000    "Traveling Flat File Exhibit," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
          "Introductions," Michael Martin Galleries, London
          "'Tis the Reason," Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
1999    "Snowflakes," Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
          "Bay Area Now," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
          "Introductions & Dialogue," Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
1998   "SAP," San Francisco
          Cafe at Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997   "Time Zero," ESP, San Francisco, CA
1995   "Wild Side," LACE, Los Angeles, CA
          "In a Different Light," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
          "Piece: Nine Artists Consider Yoko Ono," Kiki, San Francisco, CA
          "Flagging the 21st Century," Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
          "Bong," Kiki, San Francisco, CA
1993   "Pop Life," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
          "Electronic Studio," Metro Gallery
1992   "Erotic drawings," San Francisco Art Space, San Francisco, CA
1992   "Situation," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1991   "Common Knowledge," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
          "Lives of The Saints," Hassle Haeseler Gallery, Denver, CO

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