EDUCATION

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1987
Massachusetts College of Art, BFA, Honors 1987

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002
New Work, L.I.C.K. Ltd., Long Island City, NY

2001
Open Studio Event, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY
Lynda Ray, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA
"Facing East" Workbench, New York, NY

1997-88
New Work, KD Galleries, New York, NY
"Restless Geometry" Conlon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Lynda Ray, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Lynda Ray Recent Works, Shelburn Falls, MA
Beckerman Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Lynda Ray, Sculpture and Drawings, AIR Gallery II, New York, NY
Lynda Ray Recent Works, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
"Constructed Paintings" Gallery Ten, Washington, DC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2001
"Encaustic Now" Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
"New Abstraction" Bemidji State College, Bemidji, MN
"Encaustic Works ’01" R&F Paints, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY,
Summer 2001, DART, Brooklyn, NY
"Encaustic, Encaustic, Joanne Mattera and Friends" Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pier 9, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
Art From Detritus, New York, NY
Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
"Waxworks 2", Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000
"Different Directions" Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY
Small WorksShow, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Contemporary Art Show 2000, Keyspan, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery 128, New York, NY
Deloney Newkirk Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Summer Show, Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY
Pier 8, BWAC, Redhook, Brookly, NY
Art From Detritus, John Jay College, New York
Elements 2000, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York

1999
Art of the Century, Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Women in Wax, Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Holland Tunnel, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY
D’NA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition), Redhook, Brooklyn, NY
"Five and Ten" Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Familiar Strangers" Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY

1998
Wood Memorial Biennial, South Windsor, CT

1997
"Café December" Gallery 128, New York, NY
"Multiple Images" Brockrath Gallery, Cleveland, OH
"Multiplism as a Feminist Strategy" Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY

1996-89
Art Initiatives, New York, NY
"The Further Adventures of Thelma and Louise" Maverick Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
"Paper Prayers" Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
"Watercolor" Springfield Museum, Springfield, MO
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
"Elements of Abstractions" MU Gallery, Boston, MA
"Ideologies" University of Mass. Gallery, Amherst, MA
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Ninth Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS

1993 Residency; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
1991 Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, First Prize in Sculpture
1989 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program, Fellowship in Sculpture
1989 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program, Finalist in Painting
1988 Residency; Vermont Studio Colony, Johnson VT

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Waxworks2 signals new life for old art, North Loop News, Tom McPherson, Feb. 2001
Encaustic Painting Today, New City, Chicago, IL, Michael Bulka, February 2001
The New York Times, Barry Schwabsky, March 1999
The Boston Globe, July 1995
Art New England, Charles Giuliano, June 1993
The Boston Globe, Nancy Stapen, 1993
The New Mexican, Russ Whiting, December 1993
Artists Worth Watching, Art Talk, , June 1991
Bay Windows, Tom Grabosky, October 1989
The Boston Phoenix, David Bonnetti, July 1988