Sharmistha Ray

ABOUT

Sharmistha Ray (they/them) is a visual artist, art critic, curator, and professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Art. They make paintings and drawings that examine the complex inheritance of multiple cultures through the lens of gender and abstraction. In 2020, they co-founded the feminist artist collective Hilma’s Ghost as a participatory and collaborative model for research, exhibitions, and pedagogy. Ray’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally at Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY; Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT; Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens, NY; The Parallax Center, Portland, OR; The Armory Show, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; India Art Fair, New Delhi, India; and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India. Ray is the recipient of the Montblanc Young Artist Worldwide Patronage Award, TED Fellowship, and Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, and has been an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, and Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY. Reviews of their work have appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art India, and TimeOut Mumbai. Ray received a dual degree MFA in Painting and MS in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute and BA from Williams College.

They have upcoming projects with Hilma’s Ghost at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; Gallery RGR, Mexico City, Mexico; and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT.

WORKS

Mā (Mother), 2021
Automatic writing, markers, sequins on Bristol vellum paper
Paper size: 12 x 9 inches
Framed size: 17-3/4 x 14-3/4 x 3⁄4 inches


Shiva/Shakti (Divine Union), 2021
Automatic writing with colored pens, markers, washi tape, sequins on Bristol vellum paper
Paper size: 12 x 9 inches
Framed size: 17-3/4 x 14-3/4 x 3⁄4 inches

Wheel of Fortune, 2021
Automatic writing with colored pens on Bristol vellum paper, sequins, playing cards, color-aid, and ornamental coaster
Paper size: 12 x 9 inches
Framed size: 17-3/4 x 14-3/4 x 3⁄4 inches

EXHIBITIONS

 
 

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