EDUCATION:
M.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1983
B.F.A., The University of Texas at Austin, summa cum laude, 1980
Represented by: Trinity Gallery
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2004 Blackheath Gallery, London, U.K.
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
Sarah Bain Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2003 Blackheath Gallery, London, U.K.
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
Sarah Bain Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Galleria Il Canovaccio, Rome, Italy
St. Edward's University, University Gallery, Austin, Texas
2002 Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
F8 Fine Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
Beeville Museum of Art, Beeville, Texas
2001 Wright Gallery, New York, New York (exhibition catalog)
2000 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994 Dishman Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2005 Trinity Gallery, Atlanta Ga.
2004 Marshall Arts Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
Underground Gallery, New York, New York
Sarah Bain Gallery, Los Angeles, California
F8 Fine Arts Gallery, Austin, Texas
2003 GalerÌa Estela Shapiro, Mexico City, MEXICO
The University of Texas at Austin, Performing Arts Center, Austin, Texas
Sarah Bain Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Blackheath Gallery, London, UK
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
F8 Fine Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
Wright Gallery, New York, New York
SXSW Film Festival, V.I.P. Room, Convention Center, Austin, TX
Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
Wright Gallery, Southampton, New York
2002 Marshall Arts Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
3( Concorso Biennale Internazionale di Pittura, San Remo, Italy (catalog)
Art Miami, Miami, Florida
Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Blackheath Gallery, London, U.K.
ArtPalmbeach, Palm Beach, Florida
Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida
Wright Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Hanson Gallery, San Francisco, California
Wright Gallery, New York, New York
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
F8 Fine Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
2001 Wright Gallery, New York, New York
Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000 Wright Gallery, New York, New York
Carmen Llewellyn Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1999 Carmen Llewellyn Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1997 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1996 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995 Warwick Galleries, Warwick, New York
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994 "Texas International," The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas
Dishman Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
1993 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1992 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1991 Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
Transco Gallery, Houston, Texas
Franklin Plaza Gallery, Austin, Texas
Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1990 New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, New Mexico
Midland College Art Gallery, Midland, Texas
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
1989 The Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, California
Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Trammell Crow Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas
Graham Horstman Gallery, Denton, Texas
1988 Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas
1987. Union Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin
HONORS/AWARDS:
* 3( Concorso Biennale Internazionale di Pittura, San Remo, Italy, First Prize, 2002
* Departmental Scholarship in Painting, The University of Texas at Austin, 1980
* Departmental Scholarship in Art History, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982
* Texas Visual Arts Association 16th National Open, Honorable Mention Award, 1989
* Clary-Miner Gallery National Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention Award, 1989
* Touring Exhibit, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas, 1989
PUBLICATIONS:
"A Piece of Work: A Painting by Ray Donley," Molly Beth Brenner, Austin Chronicle, June 18, 2004.
"Laguna, La Jolla, & Beyond," Daniella Walsh, ARTnews, Summer 2004.
"Moderno 'tenebroso' al Canovaccio," Luigi Tallarico, Secolo d'Italia, Rome, Italy, November 30, 2003.
"Ray Donley Dipinti," Romac 'e, Rome, Italy, November 26, 2003.
"Inspired by Greats, Donley is Still Unique," Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, October 26, 2003.
"Exhibit: Paintings Evoke Dark Side," Jared Schroeder, San Angelo Standard-Times, January 31, 2003.
The Guide, London, U.K., February 2003.
"Artswatch," Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, January 12, 2003.
"Glasstire Recommends," Glasstire: Texas Visual Art Online, December 2002.
"Concorso Filippo Salesi: Vince un pittore texano," La Riviera, Settimanale d'informazione della Riviera del Fiori e Costa Azzura, San Remo, Italy, September 20, 2002.
"Quando Sanremo coglie i fiori dell'arte," Corriere dell'Arte, Torino, Italy, October 12, 2002.
( Concorso Biennale Internazionale di Pittura," exhibition catalog, San Remo, Italy, September 2002.
"Il Premio 'Filippo Salesi' sorride all' America," L'Eco della Riviera, San Remo, Italy, October 2002.
"A Master Collection: Beeville Shows Exhibit Old Master Works, 'New Old Masterism,'" Jeremy Brown, Corpus Christie Caller-Times, November 14, 2002.
"Noteworthy," Tribeza Magazine, November 2002.
"Donley's darkness coincides with Old Masters exhibit," Beeville Bee-Picayune, November 9, 2002.
"Un Americano vince il premio 'Filippo Salesi,'" La Stampa, Milan, Italy, September 19, 2002.
"Fictionalized Portraits Grace Gallery of AMoA," Alice B. Story, The Town Talk, Alexandria, Louisiana, June 6, 2002.
"Best Bets," Austin American-Statesman, June 6, 2002.
Cenla Focus, Alexandria, Louisiana, May/June 2002.
"Artswatch," Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, May 26, 2002.
"Artswatch," Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, March 31, 2002.
"Traversing the Mind on Canvas: Profile on Ray Donley, Oil Painter," Austin Monthly Magazine, April 2002.
"Collected Works from the Great Vel·zquez Controversy: New Paintings by Ray Donley," Art Gallery: The Official Newsletter for the Houston Arts, March-April 2002.
Art Notes, The Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2002.
"Seeking Inquiry: The Art of Ray Donley," Tribeza Magazine, February 2002.
2002 Artist's and Graphic Designers Market, Mary Cox (editor), 2002.
"Last Word on the Arts," by Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, October 11, 2001.
Ray Donley: The Lost Paintings, exhibition catalog with essay by Donald Kuspit, Wright Gallery, New York, 2001.
"Last Word on the Arts," by Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, August 30, 2001.
Austin Chronicle, December 1, 2000.
"Artists at Play with Light and Shadow," by Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, November 27, 2000.
Houston Chronicle, November 4-6, 2000. Website feature.
Architectural Digest, November 1999.
New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, 1998.
"Gallery features figurative work," The Beaumont Enterprise, September 2, 1994.
"Donley Opens Solo Show at Dishman," by Laura Scott, University Press, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, September 14, 1994.
"Art for Art's Sake '93," New Orleans Weekly, September 28, 1993.
"The Focus is on Women," by Chris Waddington, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 2, 1993.
"Special Women," by D. Eric Bookhardt, New Orleans Weekly, April 13, 1993.
"New Orleans Art and Antiques," Southern Accents Magazine, May-June 1993.
"'Chained Reaction' show links artists," by Pete Szilagyi, The Austin American-Statesman. March 9, 1991.
"Young artists put work on 'stand' in 'Exhibit A,'" by Francine Carraro, The Austin American-Statesman, Jun
Artist's Statement
My paintings extend many of the ideas of portraiture and psychological exploration first articulated by the Renaissance and Baroque masters. The power of the imagery and the audacity of the technique demonstrated in much Baroque portraiture, for example, have fascinated me since my days as a graduate student of Dutch and Spanish 17th-century art. But rather than create anachronisms for their own sake, I choose to use such imagery and technique as a point of departure for exploring a world that is idiosyncratic, personal, and capable of transcending time and place. Thus, in rendering these fictional portraits in a painterly, quasi-baroque style, I create a world of solitary itinerants, who, together, comprise what I term "los bien perdidos," or "the lost ones." With their suggestions of silence, solitude, reverie --and even madness-- these paintings are meant to evoke aspects of our more reflective (and sometimes darker) states. By tapping into these reflective states, I seek to create a nonnarrative art that is rich with mythic and symbolic potential
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