Randy Wray
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Born: 1965 in North Carolina
Lives: and works in Brooklyn, NY
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1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1986-87 Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art Studio Program
1983-87 Maryland Institute, College of Art, B.F.A.
1983 North Carolina School of the Arts, High School Diploma
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2007 Chapter and Verse, Black & White Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Heaven On High, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, SC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2002 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Feature Inc. (with Lorenzo De Los Angeles), New York, NY
Universal Concepts Unlimited (project space), New York, NY
2000 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Jack Tilton Gallery (project room), New York, NY
1996 Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Ferragamo Windows, New York, NY
1995 Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
1994 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 White Columns, New York, NY
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2007 Waste & The Natural World, The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology HQ, London
2006 Ragged, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London
Razzle Dazzle: Chandeliers by Contemporary Artists, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Regeneration Room, LMAK projects, New York, NY
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Greater New York, PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY
Five05, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Heat, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY
Working Artists in Brooklyn, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Dechiper: Hand Painted Digital, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Slice and Dice, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Bad Touch v. 6, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
Radial Gradient, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms, White Columns, New York, NY
Bad Touch v.5, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
The New Topography, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
All Shook Up!, Pelter Gallery, Greenville, SC
Freehand, curated by Henrique Faria, Red Dot, New York, NY
Small Scale Sculpture and Anonymous Tantra Paintings, Feature Inc., New York, NY
Abstract per se, curated by Max Henry, Red Dot, New York, NY
Decade, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Post-Digital Painting, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
ARTNEW YORK, Kunstraeume auf Zeit, Linz, Austria
Empire, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Painting Generation, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (Traveled to the Aldrich
Museum, Ridgefield, CT)
2003 Message to Pretty, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Something to Bump Into, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
PULSE: Painting Now, RARE, New York, NY
Resident Artists Exhibition, Chester Springs Studio Gallery, Chester Springs, PA
Southern Exposure, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Artist Craft, Chester Springs Studio Gallery, Chester Springs, PA
1997 Prosthetic Garden, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
...Just What Do You Think You’re Doing Dave?, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center,
Brooklyn, NY
1996 Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Most Important Thing in the World - Oasis vs. Blur, curated by Bill
Arning, 60 Bond Street, New York, NY
Bailey House Benefit Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Oy!, curated by Kenny Schacter, Greene Street, New York, NY
Smells like Vinyl, organized by Sara Seager and Thaddeus Strode, Roger Merians Gallery, New
York, NY
Wheel of Fortune, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY
Way Cool, Exit Art, New York, NY
Maricas; Un Communicado desde EE.UU., curated by Bill Arning, Centro
Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Universidad de BuenosAires, Argentina
Fabrication: formal, found, and funky, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman
University, Orange, CA
Me, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, NY
Spring Collection, Sauce Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1994 Athena & Arachne, curated by Casey Kaplan, Apex Art, New York, NY
Update 94, White Columns, New York, NY
Chasing Angels, Cristinerose Gallery, New York NY
Desire, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Huma Bhaba, Aleya Saad, Randy Wray, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
Who Chooses Who, New Museum, New York, NY
1993 Trisexual, Tri Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Animal in Me, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
Cartoonal Knowledge, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
Mirabella XXX, 93 Crosby Street, New York, NY
1992 Not Working in LA/Good Design, curated by Jorge Pardo & Pae White,
Nomadic Site, Los Angeles, CA
Salon of the Mating Spiders, Test Site Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1991 Hit + Run, 525 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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2006 Mayerson, Keith. “Artists on Artists”, BOMB magazine, March
Yun, Michelle. Greater New York Catalog essay, PS1 Museum
Kley, Elisabeth. “Top 10 Trends: Just Bead It”, Artnews, February
2005 Baker. “Randy Wray”, The Village Voice, June-8-14, c75
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review”, The New York Times, June 17
2004 Robinson, Walter. “Weekend Update”, Artnet, February 28
2003 Johnson, Ken. “Alumni Return, Juxtaposing Past and Present”, The New York Times, November
28
Metz, Cade. “North Carolinians in New York”, Metromagazine, September
Hakanson Colby, Joy.“Post-Digital Painting”, Detroit News, January 30
Tysh, George. “Art 10101010”, Metro Times, Detroit, January 29
Guten Cohen, Keri. “Artists use technology in paintings”, Detroit Free Press, January 5
Rubinstein, Raphael. “A Quiet Crisis”, Art In America, March
Platt, Ron. Randy Wray, exhibition essay,
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, January
Hirsch, Faye. “Randy Wray”, Art In America, January
2002 Houston, Joe. Post-Digital Painting, exhibition catalog essay,
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, December
Forde, J.A. “Unframed, Artists Respond to AIDS”, ACRIA, Powerhouse 2002
Mahoney, Robert. “Landscape”, Time Out New York, February 21-28, p51
2000 Johnson, Ken. “Art In Review”, The New York Times, October 3
Henry, Max. “Noises”, Gotham Dispatch column, Artnet, November
Arning, Bill. “Optimal Allusion”, Insider column, eartgroup, February
Wray, Randy. Off the Wall, artists project, Smock magazine, November
1999 Gangitano, Lia. Message to Pretty, exhibition catalog essay, Thread Waxing Space, New York,
NY, December
Connelly, John. Recipes (Artist project), Zingmagazine, winter
1998 Marshall, Robert. “American Homes & Travelers”, Artnet, May
Rice, Robin. “Crafty, Very Crafty”, Philadelphia City Paper, April 10
1997 Moody, Tom. “Randy Wray”, Artforum, February
Rubinstein, Raphael. “Randy Wray”, Art In America, March
1996 Arning, Bill. “Art Review”, Time Out, October 24-31, Issue 57
Rubinstein, Raphael and Yau, John. “Report from the Ruins of the Emerald City”, Lingo, No. 5,
Spring
Smith, Roberta. “Testing Limits at the Corcoran”, New York Times, January 6
1995 Schacter, Kenny. Artist’s Project, Zingmagazine, fall
Hess, Elizabeth. “Never-Never Wasteland”, Village Voice, May 23
Ducan, Michael. Fabrication: formal, found, and funky, exhibition essay,
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Curtis, Cathy. “Weaving New Life into Everyday Objects”, Los Angeles Times/Orange County
Edition, April 4
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review”, New York Times, January 6
Levin, Kim. “Choices”, The Village Voice, January 3
1994 Wray, Randy. “Desire”, Visionaire, No. 12 Fall
Berger, Maurice. She is Silent When She Sews, exhibition catalog essay Apex Art. New York,
NY, December
Saltz, Jerry. “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting”, Art in America, October
LaBelle, Charles. “Grunge Lite”, Artweek, August
Rubinstein, Raphael. “The Inner Child”, ARTnews, May 9
Gooch, Brad. “Ross Bleckner Revealed”, Harper’s Bazaar, May
1993 Pagel, David. “Nature of Desire”, Los Angeles Times, April 1
Levin, Kim. “Art in Brief”, The Village Voice, June 29
Hoffman, Dristan. “Trisexual”, Bang!, No. 5
Eaton, Halle. “Impressions of Trisexual”, Picture, May
1992 Connelly, John. The Art of Randy Wray, essay
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2002 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowshipmag
SELECTED MUSEUMS AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Sex, New York, NY
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, SC
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD
JP MorganChase Bank, New York, NY
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Newberger Berman, New York, NY
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Pohl Tool Company, Detroit, MI
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