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Charles Ray (Chicago, 1953) is known chiefly for his enigmatic sculptures, through which he questions viewers’ perceptive judgements in a jarring and unexpected way. Setting out from objects and proximate daily references, Ray works with scale to contest ingrained and stereotypical forms and discourses; for instance, in Family Romance (1993) he depicts a canonical family: a heterosexual couple and their two children, a boy and a girl, all naked. In subverting the scale of the children, who are the same height as their parents, the artist underscores an altered perception of idealised normality.
Although the bulk of Ray’s work encompasses sculptures and installations, in the early days of his artistic career he experimented with more performative pieces, for instance Plank piece I & II (1973), in which his actual body is part of the sculpture.
Ray has participated in Kassel’s documenta IX (1992) and in numerous editions of different biennales: the 50th and 55th Venice Biennale (2003 and 2013), the 9th Sydney Biennale (1992), the 4th Lyon Biennale (1997) and five Whitney Museum of American Art Biennials in New York (1989, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2010), where his work was also the subject of an exhibition in 1998. Furthermore, he has exhibited at the Art Institute de Chicago (2015), Kunstmuseum Basel (2014), and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (1998), among many other museums and art centres. Ray is professor emeritus at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he currently lives and works.
Exhibition´s details
Current exhibitions
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24 November 2022 - 17 April 2023
Margarita Azurdia
Margarita Rita Rica Dinamita
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16 November 2022 - 27 February 2023
Documentary Genealogies
Photography 1848–1917
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10 November 2022 - 2 October 2023
An Act of Seeing that Unfolds
The Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection
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21 October 2022 - 16 May 2023
Manolo Quejido
Immeasurable Distance
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7 October 2022 - 9 April 2023
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Glass is my skin
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28 September 2022 - 27 March 2023
Francesc Tosquelles
Like a Sewing Machine in a Wheat Field
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21 September 2022 - 27 February 2023
Leonor Serrano Rivas
Natural magic
Program: Fisuras -
11 November, 2022 – 10 February, 2023
Cards on the Table
The memory of Nunca Máis and the stacked political cards
Muestras documentales, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación