Bio
Margo Ray is a printmaker, painter and book artist from the Big Island of Hawai’i. She holds an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and a BA in Studio Arts from University of Hawaii at Hilo. She approaches her artistic practice through the process of collection: postcards, tourist memorabilia, old photographs and playing cards that she incorporates into her work through various print media processes. Margo’s work investigates notions of authenticity and vulnerability as well as her relationship to the natural world by creating surreal compositions where she uses drawn and photographic images of animals, plants, architecture and explosions to communicate her imagined world. Margo currently lives and works in Honoka'a, Hawai'i.
Contact
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
2003-2006
Concordia University, Master of Fine Arts, Print Media.
Montreal, Quebec
1999-2002
University of Hawai’i at Hilo, Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art. Graduated with Honors.
Hilo, Hawai’i
Selected Exhibitions
2007
Town, 3453 Wai’alae Ave, Honolulu, HI Nov 6-Jan 7 “Tales of Fortune and Disguise”
Arts at Marks’s Garage, 1159 Nuuanu Ave., Honolulu, HI. Nov 29- Jan 6 “The Sun Never Sets” with Susan Maddox and Adam Chapman.
2006
Kahilu Theatre Gallery, 67-1886 Lindsey Road, Kamuela, HI. Oct 15-Nov 3 “Palanehe-Noiseless” with Laurie Anderson “The End of the Moon”
Parisian Laundry, 3550 St.Antoine West, Montreal. March 10-25 “Splendid Isolation”
2004
Bourget Gallery, 1230 de la Montagne, Montreal. Dec1-15 “Surprisingly Narrow Paths” Video and collage installation.
Roy Street Collective, rue Roy, Montreal. May 31-June14 “Postcards, Snapshots and Apocalyptic Surreal Landscapes”
Public Collections and Awards
2008
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Contempo 2008- ‘Containment Landscape #4’
2004
Biblioteque National du Quebec Artist Book Collection ‘Water Tank’, 44-page hand made book work.
2005 & 2003
Honolulu Printmakers Association Award