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Ray graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2001 and has subsequently exhibited widely, in Ireland, the UK and China.
Ray has received various awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Cork City Council. He has also had several residencies at the Cill Rialiag Project in Ballinskelligs, Ireland and at the Backwater Arts Group in Cork. His work has been collected by such public institutions as the Office of Public Works, University College Cork, Cork Institute of technology, and the Higher Education and Training Awards Council.
Since receiving a Masters Degree in
Fine Art at the Wimbledon College of Art Ray has been
living and working in London. He is currently working with the curator
Fion Gunn on a travelling group exhibition featuring Chinese and Irish
artists that will be showing in Beijing on 14 March, and travelling to
the UK in September 2009. Ray is also working as part of the POST
artists network on an intervention art project that will take place in
Merton, London, during the summer of 2009.
educational details
Masters in Fine Art, Painting, 2008, Wimbledon
College of Art
Degree in Fine Art, Painting, 2 H 1, 2001. Crawford College of Art and
Design, C.I.T.
selected exhibitions:
solo
Gallery 9 Tigh Fili, cork
Form Gallery, cork
Electrical Engineering Building, U.C.C., cork
2004
2004
2002
group
beijing, Tsinghua
university, china
Signs of Life, london
Wimbledon College of Art, degree exhibition
Approaches to What, the nunnery, london
Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, china
Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Ballinskelligs co kerry
Barbara Stanley Gallery, london
Iontas National Small Works Exhibition, sligo
C2, Crawford Municipal Art gallery, cork
Barbara Stanley Gallery, london
Affordable Art Fair, london
The Private Collector Gallery, cork
Mill Cove Gallery, co. kerry
Iona House Gallery, oxfordshire
Quadrant, Bell Table Arts Centre, limerick
Hallward Gallery, dublin
Artspace, Granary Theatre, cork
Art Trail UCC O’Rahilly Building
U.C.C Artwork of the Month , february
Lavitt Gallery Christmas show
2009
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2006
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
2003
2003
2002
2001
collections
Ray's work has been purchased for collections including the Office of Public Works, University College Cork, Cork Institute of Technology, and the Higher Education and Training Awards Council.
residencies and commissions
four portrait commission for Jurys Hotels, western road, cork
portrait commissions of three directors of the Cork Institute of Technology
six month studio residency in the Backwater Arts Group from march to august
2004
studio residency january and may 2004 Cill Riallig, ballinskelligs, co.
kerry.
awards:
Irish Arts Council Travel Award, 2007
Cork City Council Artist's Bursary, 2007