Jennifer Bolande
Barbara Drucker
Russell Ferguson
Andrea Fraser

 


Roger Herman

Mary Kelly
Barbara Kruger
Catherine Opie
Hirsch Perlman

 


Lari Pittman
Charles Ray
Adrian Saxe
James Welling
Patty Wickman

 


Visiting Faculty
Emeritus Faculty

 

 


CHARLES RAY
Professor
Sculpture

E-mail: sasimon@ucla.edu

Charles Ray's recent solo exhibition at Regen Projects II in Los Angeles featured Hinoki, a carved sculpture inspired by a fallen tree and made over the last ten years in both Los Angeles and Osaka. In 1998, a retrospective survey of Ray’s work opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; it toured to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Solo exhibition venues include Regen Projects, Los Angeles; The Rooseum, Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland; and this year, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway.

Ray’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including shows mounted at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Dallas Museum of Art. His work was featured in Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Guggenheim Museum, New York; Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale; Los Angeles 1955—1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris; After Cézanne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900—2000, Whitney Museum of American Art. Ray has been included in four Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the 1997 Biennale de Lyon, France; the 1993 Venice Biennale, Italy; and Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany.

Ray has received grants from the Larry Aldrich Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; Art Matters, Inc.; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; the Canadian Arts Council (Visiting Foreign Artist Grant); The New Jersey Council for the Arts; and the Rutgers University Artists Fellowship. MFA, Rutgers University; BFA, University of Iowa.