Ray was born in Chicago as the son of Helen and Wade Ray. His parents owned and ran a commercial art school … See more

Ray's work is difficult to classify. Style, materials, subject, presence, and scale are all variable. Critic Anne Wagner finds the consistent quality to be this: "In all his seamlessly executed objects, Ray fixates on how an… See more

Ray had his first one-person museum exhibition in 1989 at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now Orange County Museum of Art). His art has since been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe an… See more

• Plank Piece I, II (1973), The Broad, Los Angeles; Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Tate, London
• How a Table Works (1986), Museum o… See more

• Bankowsky, Jack, Thomas Crow, Nicholas Cullinan, and Michael Fried. Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch, Ray, Koons. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2014.
• Bürgi, Berhand, Douglas Druik, Michael Fried, and Charles Ra… See more

• Horse and Rider (Ray), 2014 See more