JOY RAY
Joy Ray is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher who lives and works in Los Angeles. Ray uses installation, textiles, and digital media to investigate the palpable presence of the unknown, unseen, redacted, illegible, uncanny, and haunted. Central to her research into the unknowable are methods of abstraction, concealment, illumination, and reconstitution that extract visual language from archival texts. Ray’s research-based installations activate the poetics of archival material, bringing ghosts to life. Widely exhibited, her work has been featured at Cerritos College Art Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, MCA Chicago, Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, BravinLee, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Hawaii State Art Museum, and Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Ray’s work has been recognized with prestigious grants, fellowships, and residencies including Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. Ray’s practice and exhibitions have been featured in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Harper’s Magazine. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.
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