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The widely celebrated, prolific San
Francisco artist Rex Ray opens an exhibition of New Works at Michael
Martin Galleries.
You have seen this colorist’s botanical arabesques: he has
caught your eye all over San Francisco in the most sophisticated locales, including the Slanted Door and the W San Francisco.
Rex Ray’s stunning design genius has brought him
to the attention of the most judicious culturati: he has designed
for David Bowie, Matmos, Bill Graham Presents as well
as Apple, Sony Music, City Lights Publishers, among many others.
His collage work, paintings and drawings have been
exhibited in major museums and galleries world wide, including San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Michael Martin Galleries,
Gallery 16, New Langton Arts, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
Biography
EDUCATION
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1988
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
Gallery T, Denver, CO
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2005
Gallery 16, San Francisco, Ca
Gensler & Associates, San Francisco, Ca
2004
Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
2003
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Gallery 16, San Francisco
2002
ModernBook/Gallery494, Palo Alto, Ca
2001
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2000
Peterson Hall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Gallery 16, San Francisco
1999
Architects & Heroes, San Francisco
1998
Gallery 16, San Francisco
1996
Gallery 16, San Francisco
1994
Monster Truck Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1992
One Man Show, Hassel Haeseler Gallery Denver, Co
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Recent California Abstraction, Monterey Museum of Modern Art, Ca
Neo Mod, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, Ca
Blobjects, San Jose Museum of Modern Art
Belles Letters, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2004
Conduit Gallery, Dallas Texas AD2004,
The Lab, San Francisco
2003
Gallery 16, San Francisco
2002
Fascination: The Bowie Show, Gallery 16, San Francisco, Ca
Skulls, Academy of Arts & Sciences, San Francisco, Ca
Home, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
2001
I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of Ca. Art, San Diego Museum of Art
Velocity, Seattle, WA
West Coasting, Gotham, London
2000
Pierogi Traveling Exhibit, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco
Michael Martin Gallery, London
Abstraction: Raucous to Refined, Bedford Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Alone, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1999
Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco
Snowflakes, Drawings at Four walls, San Francisco
1998
SAP, San Francisco Limn Gallery, San Francisco
1997
Time Zero, ESP, San Francisco
1995
Wild Side, LACE, Los Angeles
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley
Piece, Nine Artists Consider Yoko Ono, Kiki, San Francisco
Flagging the 21st Century, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
1994
Science Fair, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
For Your Pleasure, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
Bong Hits, Kiki, San Francisco
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