b. 1959 Brownsville, TX; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and Cuernavaca, Mexico

Represented by Lyle O. Reitzel in the Dominican Republic

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016   Ray Smith: Unguernica Paintings & Sculptures, McCLain Gallery, Houston, TX
American Calendar, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, New York, NY

2011   Under the Big Top, McCLain Gallery, Houston, TX

2008   Ray Smith, Roebling Hall, New York, NY

2003   La Casa de Hielo, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, ESP

2002   Wheels and Longarms, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
Ray Smith New Works, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
ARTMATTERS 3 Ray Smith: Recent paintings, Mc Nay Art Museum (Brown Gallery), San Antonio, TX
Catahoula Cur, Babilonia Wilner Foundation, Berkeley, CA

2001   Ray Smith, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
ARCO ‘01, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid, ESP
Persianas, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, MX
Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ray Smith, Galeria Trama, Barcelona, ESP
Ray Smith – Aquarellen, Rob Jurka Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Ray Smith – Dog’s Life, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
Ray Smith, Manuel Ojeda Gallery, Las Palmas, Gran Canarias, ESP

1999   Time and Again, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
Pop Vox, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, MX
Ray Smith, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, MX
100 Heads on Paper, Esso Gallery, New York, NY
Argonautica, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, ESP
Argonautica, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, ENG

1998   Ray Smith: Recent Paintings, Galeria Ramis Barquet, NY
Ray Smith, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR
Ray Smith, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo
Ray Smith, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, SE

1996   Ray Smith, Milleventi, Turin, ITL
ARCO ’96, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid, ESP
The Battle of the Tailors, Mario Diacono, Boston, MA
Ray Smith; Portraits of American Writers, Sperone Westwater, NY

1995   Ray Smith, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Ray Smith; Recent Paintings, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
New Paintings, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, NL
ARCO, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid, SP
Ray Smith, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1994   Ray Smith, Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, ITL
Eli Board Family Foundation

1993   Art at the Edge: Ray Smith, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Encounters 4: Ray Smith, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas , TX
Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, FR
Ray Smith ‘93 Obra Reciente, Ex-Convento de Santa Teresa La Antigua, Mexico City, MX

1992   Ray Smith (catalog), Bonnefantemuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (traveled to Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico)
New Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, FR
Sculpture, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Paraiso, Deleites Terrestres, Infierno, Permanent Installation at Crazy Eights, San Francisco, CA
Ray Smith, Galerie Volker Skulima, Berlin, DE
Ray Smith, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
New Paintings, Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, CH

1991   Ray Smith, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Ray Smith, Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy

1990   New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, JP
Ray Smith: Wind Instruments, Editions Julie Sylvester, New York, NY
Currents: Ray Smith, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Ray Smith, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005   Here Comes the Bogey-Man, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
ARCO 2005, IFEMA, ESP

2004   Mexico Illuminated, Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Contemporary Tapestries, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
Co-Conspirators: Artist and Collector: The Collection of James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

2003   Mexico: Iluminado, Freedman Gallery, Albright College/Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
Paper, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY

2002   Los Excesos De La Mente, Centro Andaluz De Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, ESP
Plotting, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Madison Avenue BID, Where Fashion Meets Art, Fratelli Rosetti, New York, NY

2001   Ray Smith/Tom McKinley, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Self-Made Men: Male Self Portraits, D C Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2000   BLUER, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

1999   Today and Everyday, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
Art of the Eighties, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
The Eye of the Millenium: Art of the Americas, World Bank & Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. (toured to Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

1998   Mexico Reconfigured, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Artistes Latino-Americans, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR
The Chalkboard Chronicles, TZ Art & Co., New York, NY

1996   Sin Fronteras: Arte Latinoamericano Actual, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
Fantasies of Fate: The New Latin American Magic Realism, Galeria Ramis Barquet & Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1995   Personal Heroes (part two), Galerie De La Tour, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1994   Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Let’s Face It, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, NE
Contemporary Loans, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
American Art Today: Heads Only, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Drawings: Reaffirming the Media, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO; Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
American Painting Now, Eva Menzio, Turin, ITL

1993   La Frontera/The Border: Art About the Mexico/United States Border Experience, Centro Cultural de la Raza and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (traveled to Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, MX Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, San Jose, Museum, San Jose, CA)
Recent Acquisitions, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, NY
The Spirit of Drawing, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Biennale di Venezia at Amfar International, Venice, ITL
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1992   Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century (catalog), Estacion Plaza de Armas, Sevilla, Spain (traveled to Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges, Pompidou, and Hotel Des Arts, Fondation Nationale des Arts, Paris, France, Kunstalle Cologne, Cologne, Germany, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY)
Drawn into the ‘90s, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (traveled to Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL)
Through the Path of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1991   Paris 1991, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, FR
Group Sculpture Show, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Tema 1492, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, MX
A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Altrove, Fra Immagine de Identita, Fra Indetita e Tradizione, Museo de’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, ITL
Drawings, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
A Dialogue of Images, Galerie Ptefferle, Munich, DE
Selection’ Oeuvres de la Collection, FAE Musee d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, CH
Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey A. C., Monterrey, Mexico
Displacements: Reconfiguring the Relationship of Image to Identity and Identity to Tradition, The Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, ESP
Reclaiming the Spirit, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
Personal Portraits, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Modern and Contemporary Mexican Masters; Works on Paper, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY

1990   Spellbound, Mark Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sperone Westwater Group Exhibition, ARCO ‘90 Art Fair, Madrid, ESP
With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Fairfield, CT
With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Salon de Los 16, Museo Espanol De Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, ESP
Group Exhibition, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, FR
X Salon de Los 16, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, ESP
Pharmakon ‘90, Nippon Convention Centre, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, JP
Group Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY