Bob Ray

Bob Ray (b. 1952) works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and even correspondence and performance. Born in Warrensburg, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, he now lives with his wife in the small town of Washington in eastern North Carolina.

Ray was the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in 2015, and he has had recent shows at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina; Lump Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina; and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
RECENT EXHIBITS

Suit Yourself
One Man Exhibit
Greenville County Museum of Art
Greenville, SC
March -July 2025

World’s Best Ear
One Man Exhibit
Lump Gallery
Raleigh, NC
March – July 2023

Circles of Influence
Turchin Center of Contemporary Art
Two Person Exhibit
Boone, NC
July-September 2018

Correspondence Art
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Charleston, SC
Ray Johnson, Richard C and Bob Ray
2016

White Days Unswallowed
One Man Exhibit
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Charleston, SC
2011

Grants / Fellowships

Emerging Artist Grant
Southeast Arts Federation
Atlanta, Georgia
1982

NC Arts Council
Artist Fellowship
Raleigh, NC
2015