Ray Turner (artist)


Ray Turner, is an American artist known primarily for his portrait and landscape paintings. Turner lives and works in Pasadena, California. He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in 1985 where he subsequently taught for 13 years as a professor of painting and drawing. Turner is represented by in Los Angeles by , Pasadena, CA, Santa Fe and by in San Francisco.

Work

Turner’s work has been exhibited regularly in the United States since 1990. In 2010, his paintings were shown at the alongside those of Wayne Thiebaud. In 2011, Turner had solo shows at Rivera & Rivera and the . After Long Beach, the exhibition Population traveled to the , , , , , , and . Population is a traveling exhibit of over 900 pieces. It has been reviewed and written about by several notable critics and historians such as Peter Frank, art historian and critic, Ken Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, and Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times.
Turner's exhibition was listed in the Huffington Post as one of the top shows to see in March 2011 and was positively reviewed in July 2011 by notable Art Critic, .
Works by Turner are included in numerous public collections, including Los Fuentes Building, Crown City Building, Park Place Building, and Maguire Building. He is in the permanent collections of Akron Museum of Art, Whatcom Museum, Museum of Glass, Wichita Art Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Huntington Museum.