Michael Ray Charles
The artist
Born in 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, Michael Ray Charles currently lives and works in Austin, Texas, USA, and Gent, Belgium. He spent most of his youth in California and Louisiana. He studied design and advertising for three and a half years before being awarded a BFA degree in 1989. He went on to obtain an MFA in 1993 at the University of Houston, Texas, before teaching at the University of Texas in Austin. In 2014, he joined the faculty of the University of Houston. His work features in a wide range of public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Arizona State University Art Museum and San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas.
Exhibitions
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Afrochemistry
May 4 - July 13, 2024
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
VENI VIDI
March 15 - May 6, 2023
New York -
In the Presence of Light
March 19 - May 7, 2022
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA |
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| Residency | Lives and works in Austin, Texas, USA and Gent, Belgium |
| Education | 1993 - MFA, University of Houston, Texas, USA
1989 - BA, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Los Angeles, USA |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2023 | VENI VIDI, TEMPLON, New York, USA |
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| 2022 | In the Presence of Light, TEMPLON, Paris, France |
| 2004 | Michael Ray Charles - Falk Visiting Artist, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Universitry of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA |
| 2003 | Michael Ray Charles, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Michael Ray Charles, Salle Allende, Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus du Solbosch, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2002 | Michael Ray Charles: Standard 8, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Michael Ray Charles: Shiny Figures, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2001 | Michael Ray Charles, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke, Belgium |
| 1999 | Face Off: Michael Ray Charles/Jean-Michel Basquiat, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
Michael Ray Charles-Forever Free, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Michael Ray Charles, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Stereo Typical Errors: Michael Ray Charles and Joyce J. Scott, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2023 | Smoke & Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, USA Spike Lee: Creative Sources, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA De leur temps (7), un regard sur les collections privées, Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque, France |
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| 2022 | Black Indians, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France |
COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA | |
| Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA | |
| Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA | |
| Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA | |
| Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA | |
| Fondation Francès, Senlis, France | |
| Jesuit Dallas Museum, Texas, USA |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
| 2023 | Veni Vidi, Hedwig Van Impe, Cotthem, Barcelona and Ghent |
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| 2022 | Michael Ray Charles, In the Presence of Light, Hedwig Van Impe, Cotthem, Barcelona and Ghent |
| 2020 | Michael Ray Charles. A Retrospective, dir. Cherise Smith, Texas University Press, USA |
| 1999 | Michael Ray Charles. Forever Free. Hedwig Van Impe and Remei Giralt, Cotthem Gallery , Barcelona, Spain, Knokke, Belgium |
| 1998 | Michael Ray Charles. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA |
Press Release
Art Currently - April 2023
American Minstrelsy Through The Lens of Michael Ray Charles at Templon, New York
Le Figaro - avril 2022
Michael Ray Charles chez Templon
Beaux Arts Magazine - avril 2022
Michael Ray Charles entre totems et tabous américains
Widewalls - mars 2022
Complex oeuvre of Michael Ray Charles Will be Unveiled at Galerie Templon
Design Boom - mars 2022
In The Presence of Light at Galerie Templon
Connaissance des Arts - mars 2022
Michael Ray Charles, 20 ans déjà
The Baer Faxt - décembre 2021
The Bear Fast Dispatch: Art Basel Miami Beach
The Art Newspaper - décembre 2021
L'artiste américain Michael Ray Charles rejoint la Galerie Templon
Gazette Drouot - décembre 2021
Templon rerésente l'artiste afro-américain Michael Ray Charles
News
Michael Ray Charles
SMOKE AND MIRRORS: MAGICAL THINKING IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Group show
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
From November 18, 2023 to May 12, 2024
As on the occasion of the group show Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art, Michael Ray Charles will be exhibiting his work The Magic Man, curated by Kathleen Goncharov, from November 18, 2023. The exhibition’s title refers both to performative magic and to the “magical thinking” in today’s culture rife with disinformation, conspiracy theories, and “alternative facts.”
Michael Ray Charles
Kehinde Wiley
SPIKE LEE: CREATIVE SOURCES
Group show
Brooklyn Museum
Until February 4, 2024
On the occasion of the group exhibition Spike Lee: Creative Sources, Michael Ray Charles and Kehinde Wiley are exhibiting their works at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. An immersive installation of objects drawn from Spike Lee’s personal collection of artworks by prominent Black American artists.
Jean-Michel Alberola
Michael Ray Charles
Oda Jaune
Prune Nourry
DE LEUR TEMPS, UN REGARD SUR DES COLLECTIONS PRIVÉES
Group show
Frac Grand Large, France
From January 28 to April 23, 2023
As part of the group show De leur temps at the Frac Grand Large, Jean-Michel Alberola, Oda Jaune, Michael Ray Charles and Prune Nourry will exhibit their works from 28 January to 23 April 2023.
Michael Ray Charles
BLACK INDIANS DE LA NOUVELLE ORLéAN
Group show
Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Museum, France
From October 4, 2022 to January 15, 2023
Opening on October 4, the exhibition “Blacks Indians From New Orlean” will present two artworks by afro-american Michael Ray Charles. Via a geographical and chronolical journey featuring interviews, contemporary costumes and traditional works, the exhibition reveals a singular culture, built by more than three centuries of resistance against the assault of social and racial domination.
Michael Ray Charles
GALERIE TEMPLON ANNOUNCES FIRST SHOW OF AMERICAN ARTIST MICHAEL RAY CHARLES IN TWO DECADES
Representation
Galerie Templon is delighted to announce that American artist Michael Ray Charles joins the gallery roster. With the valuable collaboration of his agent Hedwig Van Impe, the gallery will unveil for the first time in almost two decades the complex, visually striking and often disturbing oeuvre of one of the most radical African-American artists of his generation. Templon will reveal over time his spectacular series of unseen paintings and sculptures.
