CHARLES RAY

Born: Chicago, 1953

Education: Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., M.F.A. 1979
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, B.F.A. 1975

Currently lives and works in Los Angeles.


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2012
Charles Ray, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

2011
Charles Ray: Future Fragment on a Solid Base, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2009
Ink Line, Moving Wire, Spinning Spot, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2007
Chicken, The New Beetle, Father Figure, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Hinoki, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

2006
Charles Ray: black & white, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Charles Ray: Pumpkin Poster, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1998
Charles Ray, Whitney Museum of American Art. Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)

1997
Regen Projects, Los Angeles

1996
Studio Guenzani, Milan

1994
Charles Ray, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden. Traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Kunsthalle Bern and Kunsthalle Zürich (catalogue)

1993
Feature, New York
Galerie Metropol, Vienna

1992
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
Feature, New York

1991
Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris
Feature, New York
Galerie Metropole, Vienna

1990
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
Interim Art, London
Feature, New York
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif. (catalogue)
Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. (catalogue)

1989
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
Feature, New York
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh

1988
Feature, Chicago
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

1987
Feature, Chicago
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

1985
Mercer Union, Toronto
New Langton Arts, San Francisco

1983
64 Market Street, Venice, Calif.


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2012
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn.
Intimate Immensity: The Susan and Larry Marx Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2011
In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice
Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York
The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Fondazione Prada _ Ca' Corner della Regina, Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice
In the Name of the Artists: Classics of Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, São Paulo Biennial Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
American Exhuberance, Rubell Family Collection/ Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

2010
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Abstract Resistance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Size Does Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Off The Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Will travel to Kunsthaus Zürich
New Work: Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Martin Honert, Charles Ray, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2009
Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Mapping the Studio, Punta della Dogana, Venice
The Modern Wing, The Art Institute of Chicago
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami

2008
Pretty Ugly, curated by Alison Gingeras, Maccarone and Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
(loverboy), sleep, shatter, handheld bird, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Meet Me Around the Corner - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Drawn Together, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

2007
Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Equal, That Is, to the Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Conceptual Photography: 1964–1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Dead! Dead! Dead!, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2006
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
More Than the World: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Small Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Five Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centres Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Where Are We Going? Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (catalogue)
Recent Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2005
After Cézanne, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Empreinte Moi, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Take Two. Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970, Tate Modern, London
Mo(nu)ments!, Astrup Fearnely Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Bidibidobidiboo, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy
Mythologies, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-based Art, PaceWildenstein, New York (catalogue)

2004
The Last Picture Show: Künstler verwenden Fotografie 1960-1982, Foto Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens

2003
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venice Biennale (catalogue)
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Everyday Aesthetics: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Drawings: Trockel, Sterbak, Serra, Schütte, Ray, Puryear, Nauman, Mosley, Mangold, LeWitt, Graham, Chu, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
In Full View, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photogaphy, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Not-So-Still-Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.

2002
Tempo, The Museum of Modern Art Queens, New York (catalogue)
American Standard, (Para)Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Walk Around Time: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2001
The Inward Eye, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif.
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Room of Their Own, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Pollock to Today: Highlights From the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Open Ends: Art Since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Au-delà du spectacle, Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)

2000
Matthew Barney, Jennifer Pastor, Charles Ray, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 - 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Let's Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue)

1999
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Almost, Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Culbutes dans les Millenaire, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif.

1998
Reality Bites: Approaches to Representation in American Sculpture, Chicago Cultural Center
Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, 11 Duke Street Limited, London
Anthony Caro, Charles Ray, greengrassi, London
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Calif.
Charles Ray, "Fashions" and Rodney Graham, "Halcion Sleep," Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
Artificial: Figuracions Contemporanies, Museu d' Art Contemporani, Barcelona

1997
American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift, curated by Anne Goldstein and Paul Schimmel, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Biennale de Lyon d'art contemporain, curated by Harald Szeemann, Maison de Lyon, Lyon, France
Skuptur. Projekte in Munster 1997, Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Munster and city of Munster, Munster
Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin; and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Veronica's Revenge: Selections from the Lambert Art Collection, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art, organized in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

1996
Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975-96, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Portrait of the Artist, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery, Athens. Traveled to the Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (catalogue)
NowHere: Walking and Thinking and Walking, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (catalogue)
Happy End, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
Young Americans: Part II, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)
Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, Calif.

1995
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Prague and Copenhagen (catalogue)
Private/Public: ARS 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
MicroMegas: Miniatures and Monstrosities in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jersualem
PerForms: Janine Antoni, Charles Ray, Jana Sterbak, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Feminin-masculin: le sexe de l'art, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Everything That's Interesting is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens
Still Leben, National Museum, Stockholm
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Calif. Traveled to SITE Santa Fe, N.Mex.

1994
Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)
Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Traveled to the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebr., and Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C. (catalogue)

1993
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Seoul, Korea (catalogue)
Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Bond Store 3/4, Sydney
Tables, Selections from the Lannan Foundation Collections, Lannan Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Images, Selections from the Lannan Foundation Collections, Lannan Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

1992
Dirty Data: Sammlung Schurmann, Ludwig Forum fur internationale Kunst, Cologne (catalogue)
Spiral Gallery, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
Strange Developments, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Images, Lannan Art Foundation, Los Angeles
The Other Side, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Viaggio a Los Angeles, Castello di Rivara Center for Contemporary Art, Rivara, Italy
Post Human, FAE Musee d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland. Traveled to the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin Italy; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; and Deichtorhallen Hamburg (catalogue)
Documenta IX, Kassel
Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990's, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
Biennale of Sydney

1991
The Savage Garden, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona (catalogue)
Cadences: Icon and Abstraction in Context, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue)
Mechanika, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
Devices, Josh Baer Gallery, New York
Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Reinhard Mucha, Charles Ray, and Rachel Whiteread, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
An Exhibition to Benefit ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Paula Cooper and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1990
Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
Recent Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
Blood Remembering, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, N.Y. (catalogue)
Heart in Mouth, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

1989
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Loaded, Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles

1988
Near Miss, Feature, Chicago
Still Trauma, Milford Gallery, New York
303 Gallery, New York
Selections From the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif.
Recent Art From Los Angeles, curated by Elizabeth Shepherd, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio

1987
Industrial Icons, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, Calif.
Nature, Feature, Chicago
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

1986
Baaa Baaa Ba'bel, Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles
Frederick A.Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles

1984
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art

1981
Cape Gallery, New Orleans

1980
Uno Gallery, New Orleans
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans