RAY SMITH
• Born in Brownsville, Texas.
Lives and works in New York City and Cuernavaca, MX
• La Casa de Hielo, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain. Feburary 2003
• Wheels and Longarms, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, September - October 2002
• Ray Smith New Works, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York
• ARTMATTERS 3 Ray Smith: Recent paintings , Mc Nay Art Museum (Brown Gallery), San Antonio, TX, July - September 2002
• Catahoula Cur, Babilonia Wilner Foundation, Berkeley, CA, Janurary - March 2002
• Ray Smith, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Galeria Ramis Barquet, ARCO '01, Madrid, Spain, 2001
• Persianas, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, MX
• Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Ray Smith - Aquarellen, Rob Jurka Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Janurary - Feburary 2000
• Ray Smith, Galeria Trama, April – May 2001
• Ray Smith - Dog's Life, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY, April - May 2000
• Ray Smith, Manuel Ojeda Gallery, Las Palmas, Gran Canarias, Spain
• Time and Again, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, November 1999 - Januray 2000
• Pop Vox, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, MX, June - October 1999
• Ray Smith Galeria OMR, Mexico City, MX
• 100 Heads on Paper, Esso Gallery, New York, March - April 1999
• Argonautica, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain, 1999
• Argonautica, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England, Feb - March 1999
• Ray Smith: Recent Paintings, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, May 1998
• Ray Smith, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France, June - July 1998
• Ray Smith, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, July 1998
• Ray Smith, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden, April 1998
• Ray Smith, Milleventi, Turin, Italy, 1996
• Galeria Ramis Barquet, ARCO '96, Madrid, Spain, 1996
• The Battle of the Tailors, Mario Diacono, Boston, MA, October - November 1996
• Ray Smith; Portraits of American Writers, Sperone Westwater, New York
• Ray Smith, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden, April - May 1995
• Ray Smith; Recent Paintings, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• New Paintings, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October - November 1995
• Galeria Ramis Barquet, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
• Ray Smith, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Ray Smith, Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy, 1994
• Eli Board Family Foundation, Jan 1994
• Art at the Edge: Ray Smith, High Museum of Art , Atlanta , GA, 1993
• Encounters 4: Ray Smith, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas , TX, November 1993
• Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, March - April 1993
• Ray Smith '93 Obra Reciente, Ex-Convento de Santa Teresa La Antigua, Mexico City, MX, 1993
• Ray Smith Bonnefantemuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (traveled to Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, MX) (catalog), 1992
• New Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris France
• Sculpture, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
• Paraiso, Deleites Terrestres, Infierno, Permanent Installation at Crazy Eights, San Francisco, CA (commissioned by Dr Winkie)
• Ray Smith, Galerie Volker Skulima, Berlin, Germany
• Ray Smith, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, April 1992
• New Paintings, Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland, April 1992
• Ray Smith, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA, November 1991
• Ray Smith, Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy, April 1991
• New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 1990
• Ray Smith: Wind Instruments, Editions Julie Sylvester, New York, NY, October 1990
• Currents: Ray Smith, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
• Chicago International Art Exposition, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1989
• New Prints, AC & T Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
• Ray Smith, Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain
• Ray Smith, Lino Silverstein Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• Ray Smith - Vernissage, Galerie Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden, 1989
• Ray Smith - Pintura y Escultura, Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX, 1989
• Ray Smith, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA, November 1991
• Ray Smith, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, April 1990
• New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, November 1988
• Ray Smith, Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy, Oct 1988
• Ray Smith, Mario Diacono Gallery, Feb – March 1988
• Recent Paintings, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April - May 1987
• Ray Smith Yturria: Paintings/Drawings/Sculpture, Portico, Philadelphia, PA, Feb - March 1985
• Obras Recientes, Eduardo Hageman Gallery, Mexico City, MX, 1984
• Ray Smith: Drawings, TOWER Gallery, New York, NY., Oct - Nov 1984
• Ray Smith Yturria: Paisajes 1980 - 82 , Galeria Lourdes Chumasero, Mexico City, MX, 1983
• Ray Smith Yturria: Acrilicos, Galeria del Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, A.C., Mexico City, MX, 1978
• Here Comes the Bogey-Man, Chelsea Art Museum, June – Sept 2005
• ARCO 2005, IFEMA, Spain, Feb 2005
• Mexico Illuminated, Freeman Gallery, Sept 2004
• Contemporary Tapestries , Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY, 2004
• Co-Conspirators: Artist and Collector: The Collection of James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett , Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
• Mexico: Iluminado , Freedman Gallery, Albright College/Center for the, Arts, Reading, PA, 2003
• Los Excesos De La Mente, Centro Andaluz De Arte Contemporano, Sevilla, Spain
• Paper Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
• Plotting, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Madion Avenue BID, Where Fashion Meets Art, Fratelli Rosetti, New York, NY
• 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
• BLUER, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Today and Everyday, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
• 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)
• Art of the Eighties, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
• Mexico Reconfigured, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
• Artistes Latino-Americains, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
• The Chalkboard Chronicles, TZ Art & Co., New York, NY
• Sin fronteras: Arte Latinoamericano Actual, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela, 1997 - 96
• Narcissim: 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
• Personal Heroes (part two), Galerie De La Tour, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 1995 - 94
• Let's Face It, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 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 ö Kansas City , MO Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
• American Painting Now, Eva Menzio, Turin, Italy
• 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), 1994 - 93
• 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, Italy
• The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
• Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, 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) (catalog), 1993 - 92
• 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 Massachussetts, Amherst, MA
• Paris 1991, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
• Group Sculputure 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, 1993 - 92
• Altrove, Fra Immagine de Identita, Fra Indetita e Tradizione, Museo de'Arte Contemporanea Prato , Italy, 1991
• Drawings, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
• A Dialogue of Images, Galerie Ptefferle, Munich, Germany
• Selection' Oeuvres de la Collection, FAE Musee d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
• Mito y Magia en America : Los Ochenta, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey A. C., Monterrey , MX
• Displacements: Reconfiguring the Relationship of Image to Identity and Identity to Tradition, The Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
• 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
• Spellbound, Mark Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Sperone Westwater Group Exhibition, ARCO '90 Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
• 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, Spain
• Group Exhibition, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
• X Salon de Los 16, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, 1990
• Pharmakon '90, Nippon Convention Centre, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan
• Group Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
• The Library, A/D Gallery, New York, NY, 1990 - 89
• New Acquisitions, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX, 1989
• Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• The Figure – An Interpretive Study, Drawings, TOWER, Sept – Oct 1985
• First Triennenial of Drawings, Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
• Group Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
• American, Italian, Mexican Art: From the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, Hofstra University , Hempstead , NY (traveled to Lehigh University Art Galleries , Museum Operations, Ralph Wilson Gallery , Bethlehem , PA ), 1979 - 1989
• 3 x 4, Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain
• Primer Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes Museo Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, MX (traveled to Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, MX)
• XIV Concurso Nacional para Estudiantes de Artes Plasticas, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Aguascalientes Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de Mexico
• Toby Joysmith, 1978
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
Mc Nay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Miami Art Museum , Florida
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Eli Broad Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Wurth Museum, Kunzelman, Germany
Paine Webber Collection, New York
Max Mara, New York
Instituto Valenciano Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Cemex, Monterrey, Mexico
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX