Randy Wray

Randy Wray (b.1965) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and received his B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program. 

Wray's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Travelogue, 15 Orient, New York, NY (2022) and Particulars, MAMOTH, London, UK (2022). Additionally, Wray has had solo exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo; White Columns, New York; and Greenville County Art Museum, South Carolina. Selected group exhibitions include: The 14th Floor, Gratin, New York, NY (2024); Wertenbroek / Wray, Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris, FR (2023); The Colour of Pomegranates, MAMOTH, London, UK (2023); Inauguration, Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris, Fr (2023);  Greenhouse, Gratin, New York, NY (2023), Scouring, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY (2022); and Their Private Worlds Contained the Memory of a Painting that had Shapes as Reassuring as the Uncanny Footage of a Sonogram, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA (2022). Wray has also exhibited at MoMA PS1, New York; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; and Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Wray is the recipient of awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Gottlieb Grant, a NYFA Painting Fellowship, a Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant and the Inaugural Irving Sandler Prize. His works are represented in museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Greenville County Art Museum, South Carolina; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina. Corporate collections include Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Neuberger Berman and Progressive.