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vinnie ray
bio
1970 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.
Film, Photography, and Visual Arts - minor in studio art.
Selected Exhibitions:
2003 Jen Bekman Gallery- NYC
Group- Made in New York show, Celebrate Book, prints, stickers, flag
2003 Expace Projects 002/003- NYC
Group- Celebrate Book, Listening Book
2003 Zakka Space for Creators - NYC
Solo- Listening Series: Sonic Architecture
2003 Expace Projects 001/003- NYC
Group- Celebrate Book, prints, and stickers
2002 Siren Music Festival- Brooklyn
Flag installation along entrance to event “Listening Flags”
2002 Van Brunt St. Pier- Brooklyn
Flag installation along pier “Listening Flags”
2002 Brecht Forum- NYC
Solo- Art at the Brecht program. Prints “Listening Series” and “Celebration Series”
2002 Essex St. Market- NYC
Solo- Flag installation on front of market “Celebration Flags” Sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2001 Mastel Mastel Gallery- Brooklyn
Group- Prints, “Celebration:searching, thinking, expanding, loving, being”
2001 Digital Dumbo- Brooklyn
Group- Prints, “Celebration:searching, thinking, expanding, loving”
2000 Halcyon - Brooklyn
Solo-Works on paper, “Sonic fossils”
2000 Carlton Arms Hotel - NYC
Solo- Flag installation on front of hotel “Celebration Flags”
1999 DNA Gallery Provincetown, MA
Group- Mixed Media “suitcase of evil:alan”
1993 Alleged Gallery - NYC
Group-Mixed Media “party hat,1”
1993 Holly Solomon Gallery - NYC
Group-video piece ”Generation 13”
1993 Knitting Factory - NYC
Group-video piece “Generation 13”
1993 Dallas Film and Video Festival Dallas TX
Juried selection for video piece “Generation 13”
**1993-98 Co-Founder and Creative Director of antenna tool & die co. NYC - design/art group.
Created installation/performances/software appearing along the spectrum of underground events to museum shows. Collaborated with such artists as Jenny Holzer, Sue Coe, Merce Cunningham, and Cultural Alchemy.
**Exhibitions with antenna tool & die co.: Installation and Performance art
1997 St.Mark’s Church Performance Space - NYC
Downtown Art Festival - Performance piece “To Build a Box”
1997 67 Broad Street - NYC
The Art Exchange Show - Sound installation “Office Loops”
1997 Gramercy International Art Exhibit - Gramercy Park Hotel - NYC
Jibby Beane Gallery(London)- Computer Installation
“Kickstand™”
1997 Kitchen Theater - NYC
Installation - Sonic Installation/Performative Mix “Final Installment-The Creation of a
PerpetualSoundObject”
1997 Gramercy International Art Exhibit - Chateau Marmont LA
Jibby Beane Gallery(London)- Sound Installation “algorithmic composition”
1997 Exit Art the First World - NYC
Shape of Sound - Sound Installation/Sonic Installation/
Performative Mix “Fourth Installment-decode the embedded data
structures”
1996 New Museum of Contemporary Art - NYC
alt.youth.media - Sound Installation “MixMatch”
1996 Cultural Alchemy’s Sound Lab in the Brooklyn Bridge-NYC
Anchorage96 - Mixed Media installation “Hanging Garden,2”
1993-1996 various performance and installations around the NYC area.
*Awards and Achievements:
2003 Brooklyn Arts Council Grant
2002 Manhattan Community Arts Fund Recipient
Co-creator of Kickstand™, Artware for the computer. Critically acclaimed software program.
Instructor of Interface Design, Banff Center for the Arts.
Selection to the Dallas Film and Video Festival. “Generation 13”
Selection to the Medicine Wheel Animation Festival. “Thought.”