CHARLES RAY
BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois

Resides in Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION

Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, New Jersey, MFA, 1979

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, BFA, 1975 (cum laude)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1998 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1997 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
1996 Studioz, Milan
1994 Rooseum-Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
ICA, London
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
1993 Feature, New York
1992 Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
Feature, New York
1991 Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, France
1990 Feature, New York
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, France
Interim Art, London
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
1988 Feature, Chicago
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 Feature, Chicago
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1983 64 Market Street, Venice, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 "Drawings: Rosemarie Trockel, Jana Sterbak, Richard Serra, Thomas Schütte, Charles Ray, Martin Puryear, Bruce Nauman, Joshua Mosley, Robert Mangold, Sol LeWitt, Rodney Graham, Anne Chu," Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2002 “American Standard, (Para)Normalilty and Everyday Life”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York
2000 “Matthew Barney, Jennifer Pastor, Charles Ray,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Naw York, New York
"Quotidiana: The Continuity of the Everyday in XX Century Art," Castello di Rivoli, Museo díArte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
1999 "Millennium My Eye: Head Over Heals, A Work of Impertinence" Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec, Canada
"Regarding Beauty," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1998 "Serra, Ray and Pardo," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1997 "A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"Biennale de Lyon díart Contemporain," Maison de Lyon, Lyon, France
"Skulptor. Projekte in Münster 1997," Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
"Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
"Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," Kunsmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
"Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," Castelllo di Rivoli, Rivoli
"Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angles
"1997 Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Veronicaís Revenge: Selections from the Lambert Art Collection," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1996 "Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975-96," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"Portrait of the Artist," Anthony díOffay Gallery, London
"Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculptural Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
"Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections form the Whitney Museum of American Art," National Gallery, Athens, Greece
"Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections form the Whitney Museum of American Art," Museu díArt Contemporani, Barcelona
"Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections form the Whitney Museum of American Art," Kunsmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"NowHere: Walking and Thinking and Walking," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
"Happy End," Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Young Americans: Part II," Saatchi Gallery, London
"Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves," California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California
1995 "1995 Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of Art, New York
"Private/Public: ARS 1995," Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
"MicroMegas: Miniatures and Monstrosities in Contemporary Art," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
"PerForms: Janine Antoni, Charles Ray, Jana Sterbak," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
"Feinin-masculin: le sexe de líart," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
"Everything that's Interesting is New," The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens, Greece
"Still Leben," National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
"Aglimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
"Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
1994 "Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1993 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1992 "Viaggio a Los Angeles," Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy Documenta, Kassel, Germany
"The Other Side," Tony Shafrazy Gallery, New York
"Strange Developments," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
"Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
The Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
1991 "Devices," Josh Baer Gallery, New York
"Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Reinhard Mucha, Charles Ray, and Rachel Whiteread," Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
"The Savage Garden," Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundation Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
"Mechanika," The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1990 "Recent Drawing," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley
"5th Anniversary Exhibition," Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
1989 "1989 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Loaded," Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
1988 "Selections from the Permanent Collection," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
"Still Trauma," Milford Gallery, New York
"Near Miss," Feature, Chicago
303 Gallery, New York
"Recent Art from Los Angeles," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio Curator: Elizabeth Sheperd
1987  "Industrial Icons," University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
"Nature," Feature, Chicago
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 Frederick A. Wright Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
"Baaa Baaa Ba'bel," Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles
1984 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1981 Cape Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1980 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Uno Gallery, New Orleans, LA
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