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Ray Smith (Brownsville, USA, 1959) is a painter who, since the mid-1980s, has developed a distinctive reflection on and through painting. An artist who believes in craftsmanship and has cultivated it over a 40-year career, he has devoted himself to experimenting with what he can create from his own body and its reach. This exploration has led him to discover and combine materials that serve as vehicles to create compositions in which he works until the concept or idea, the gesture and line—or whatever unexpected element arises—reveals itself. Through experimentation, accident, chance, luck, and the passage of time he invests in each piece, the work reaches its culmination—not by force, but as a natural outcome of the process.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 Toss and Tumble, Estudio D’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
Flores, GE Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
American Calendar, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Guernimex II, GE Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
Tras una muerte exquisita (A Drawing Retrospective), curated by Omar-Pascual Castillo, Atlantic Art Center
2013 Ray Smith: Un Guernica, Fundación Casa Natal Pablo Picasso, Málaga, Spain
Ray Smith & Beto Cuevas, GE Gallery, Pinta New York, NY
2012 Shadow Boxer, Y Gallery, New York, NY
G.T. Pellizzi & Ray Smith: The Execution of Maximilian, Y Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Ray Smith: Una Curaduría de Culto, curated by Daniel Lezama, Zapopan Art Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico
2010 Ray Smith: FASCINATION, curated by Omar-Pascual Castillo, Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2009 Smith-umenta, curated by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Ray Smith Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Nuevos Cadáveres Exquisitos y otros sueños, Fernando Santos Gallery, Porto-Lisbon, Portugal
2006 Ray Smith, The Deep Homo, Silvana Faccini & Jacob Karpio Gallery, Miami, FL
1998 Ray Smith, Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
1993 Encounters 4: Ray Smith, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1987 Ray Smith: Recent Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ray Smith Yturria: Paintings/Drawings/Sculpture, @Portico, Philadelphia, PA
1978 Ray Smith Yturria, Acrílicos, Mexican-American Institute of Cultural Relations, Mexico City, Mexico
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 ARENA, curated by Ysabel Pinyol, Hilger NEXT Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2015 A Sense of Place: Selections from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL
2014 All the Best Artists Are My Friends, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, NJ
2013 Artefiera Bologna 2013, Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Bologna, Italy
2010 Brucennial, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
2009 Lingua Franca, curated by Iván de la Torre Amerigüi, Museum of Fine Arts of Huelva, Spain
2008 Third Beijing International Art Biennale, Mexican Pavilion, Beijing, China
2007 Principio de Incertidumbre, Forum of Cultures Monterrey 2007, Center for the Arts of Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico