Dick Wray (1933 – 2011)

Education

1958:              Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany

1955-58:        University of Houston, School of Architecture

 Teachings

1987:              Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Guest Artist, Fall Semester

1983:              Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, Colorado, Guest Artist, Painting

1968-82:        Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1975:              Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Guest Artist

1974:              Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Artist in Residence

Grants and Awards

1978:              National Endowment for the Arts Artist Grant

Exhibitions

2014:               “Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston”, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, TX

2013:                “Lives Played Out on Canvas: Paintings by Otis Huband, Richard Stout, and Dick Wray”,

Willian Reaves Fine Art, Houston TX

2012:               “Dick Wray: Explosive Color/ Dynamic Paint”, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, TX

“Texas Expressionism”, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, TX

2010:              “Dick Wray: Black & White”, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX

2009:              “Dick Wray”, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX

“Dick Wray: Untitled”, HCG Gallery, Dallas, TX

2008:              Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX

2007:              “Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction”,

Baylor University, Waco, TX

2006:              Papiros Amorosos”, Museo Regional de Queretaro, Oro, Mexico

2005:              Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, Meadows Museum,

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

2004:              “Made in Houston”, Brazos Annex, Houston, TX

2003:              “Dick Wray”, The Station, Art Car Museum, Houston, TX

2002:              “Dick Wray”, Texas Christian University, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

2001:              “Dick Wray: 236 Paintings” ArtScan Gallery, Houston, TX

2000:              “Dick Wray – Texas Artist of the Year: Exhibition”,

Art League Gallery of Houston, TX

“Dick Wray: 236 Painting”, ArtScan Gallery, Houston, TX

1999:              “International and American Contemporary Fine Art”, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, North Miami, FL

“Dick Wray: Installation”, ArtScan Gallery, Houston, TX

1998:              “Dick Wray Prints”, Lesikar Gallery, Houston, TX

“Works on Paper”, State Thomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

1997:              Dick Wray: First New York Exhibition”, Lerner Heller Gallery, NYC, NY

“Committed to Abstraction: Ten in Texas”, Austin Museum of Art, TX

1996:              “Texas Modern and Post-Modern”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

“Manif Seoul ’96”, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

1995:              “Convergence”, Davis/McClain Gallery, Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX

“Recent Work”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

1994:              Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX

                         Museum of East Texas, Lufkin

1993:              Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists, 1943-1993”

Glassell School of Art/ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1992:              “Recent Prints”, Shark’s Incorporated, Boulder, CO

“New Texas Art”, Cheney Coles Museum, Spokanne WA and The Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

1991:              “Recent Works”, Moody’s Gallery, Houston, TX

Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX and Transco Gallery, Houston, TX

1990:              “Printmaking in Texas: the 1980’s”

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

1989:              “Just Paint”, Blue Start Art Space, San Antonio, TX

1988:              Texas Art: An Exhibition Selected from the Menil Collection,

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Trustee’s Collections of the Contemporary

Arts Museum, Richmond Hall, Houston, TX

1987:              “Monotypes” Cathleen Gallander and Susan Lang Gallery, NYC, NY

1986:              “Third Western States Exhibition”, The Brooklyn Museum, NY

1985:              “Fresh Paint: The Houston School”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1984:              “Monotypes”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

1983:              “New Art from a New City”, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

1982:              “Our Time, Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948-1982”,

Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX

1981:              “Paintings and Drawings”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

1980:              “Response”, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler,TX

1979:              “Fire”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1978:              “Art of Texas”, The Renaissance Society, Unversity of Chicago, IL

1977:              “Paintings and Drawings”, Lerner-Heller Gallery, NYC, NY

1976:              Pelham-Von Stoffler Gallery, Houston, TX

1975:              “One Man Show”, Contemporay Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1974:              “Abstract Painting and Sculpture”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1973:              “Houston Invitational Exhibition”, Contemporary Arts Museum, TX

1972:              “Contemporary Arts Museum, Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston Invitational

Exhibition”, Houston,TX

1971:              “Other Coasts”, California State University, Long Beach, CA

1970:              “Dick Wray Paintings”, The Museum of Fine Arts School of Art, Houston

1969:              “Tamarind Homage to Lithography”, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY

1968:              Hemisfair, San Antonio, TX

1967:              New Arts Gallery, Houston, TX

1966:              Dick Wray, New Works”, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX

1965:              100 Contemporary American Drawings”, Museum of Art,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1964:              Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA – Guest Artist

1963:              “Dick Wray Drawings”, Louisiana Gallery, Houston, TX

1962:              “Southwest Painting and Sculpture Exhibition”

Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1961:              “Ways and Means”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1960:              “Dick Wray Paintings”, Louisiana Gallery, Houston, TX

1959:              Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX

Public and Corporate Collections

Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX

Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY

Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX

Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC, NY

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

East Texas Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY

Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Paine-Weber/ Rotan Mosle, Houston, TX

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Wilson Industries, Houston, TX

Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX