Mike Bray (b. Woodridge, Illinois) lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. Bray received his MFA from the University of Oregon. Bray has been awarded a Hallie Ford Fellowship, Joan Shipley Award, and an Individual Artist Fellowship through the Oregon Arts Commission. His work has recently been reviewed in Art Forum and Daily Serving. Bray’s commitment to fellow artists is illustrated in his roles as co-founder and co-director of Ditch Projects artist run space in Springfield, Oregon and as a founding member of the Coast Time Artist Residency in Lincoln City, Oregon.
Solo Exhibitions & Invitationals
2018
Time and the Other (Solo exhibition in collaboration with Anya Kivarkis), The Firehouse at Fort Mason Center for Art and Culture (San Francisco), Represented by Sienna Patti Contemporary in conjunction with the Fog Art Fair
2016
Portland Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon, Curator: Michelle Grabner
Marble, Mirrors, Pictures, and Darkness, INOVA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Light Grammar/Grammar Light (Solo Exhibition), Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon
2014
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; traveling to Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, Oregon; Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada; and Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
International Invitational Triennial of Contemporary Windchimes, Rocksbox Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
2013
Fragments of an Unknowable Whole (Solo Exhibition), Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon
2011 Black Glass (Solo Exhibition), Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon
2010
It Was never About the Audience (Solo Exhibition), Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon Portland 2010 2010 Portland Biennial: Are you ready for the country?, RocksBox Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
2009
24 Frames (Solo Exhibition), Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2008 Remake (Solo Exhibition), Crawl Space Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Group Exhibitions
2017
Symmetry Breaking, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, Curator: Blake Shell
Tone Circle, Private Places, Portland, Oregon
Now Burning, Border Patrol, Portland, ME
2016
Portland2016 Biennial, Schneider Museum of Art - Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, Curator: Michelle Grabner
Ditch Projects: Selection from Flatland, The Portland Pataphysical Society, Portland, Oregon
2015
Flatland, Linfield Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon Sometimes you get nowhere, Grammar Center, Ashland, Oregon
Bellingham National Art Exhibition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington
2014
Fontana Mix: Loop, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2013
Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts Showcase, Lumber Room, Portland, Oregon
Dumb Angel, 12128 Boatspace, Portland, Oregon
Black Manifold, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon
2012
Summer Show, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon
2011
Birdie Hamilton: A Retrospective, (Fourteen30 Contemporary Offsite), Portland, Oregon
Cold Open, Possible Projects, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010
Solus, group video exhibition, Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland
Beautiful Lives, group video exhibition, Banff Center, Banff, Canada Version 10 Festival, group mixed-media exhibition, Zhou B Center, Chicago, Illinois
MVMA Fest 2010, group mixed-media exhibition, Marfa, Texas Co-Lab, group video exhibition, Birdhouse Collective, Austin, Texas
2009
Fugitive Video Project 2009, Harmony Landing, Tennessee
Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, group video exhibition, Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland
So Fake They’ll Think Its Real, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts Summer Show, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon
SRO Video: Guys doing Guy Things, Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon
2008
Lightfoot, Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon
Press/Publications
Schneider Museum shows Oregon biennial artists, by Vickie Aldous, Ashland Daily Tidings, July 2016
Exhibition Catalog, Marble, Mirrors, Pictures, and Darkness, INOVA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
INOVA offers an austere exhibit for contemplation, by Kat Minerath, Wisconsin Gazette, April 2016
Critics Picks: Light Grammar/Grammar Light, by John Motley, ArtForum, February, 2016
Mike Bray: Light Grammar/Grammar Light at Fourteen30 Contemporary, by Ashley Stull Meyers, Daily Serving, February 2016
Mike Bray at Fourteen30 Contemporary: light grammar/grammar light, by Taryn Wiens, 60 Inch Center, February 2016
Critics Picks: Light Grammar/Grammar Light, by John Motley, ArtForum, February, 2016
Curator and Critic Tours Connective Conversations: Inside Oregon Art 2011-2014, Wagle, Kate, 2015
Some Like It Cold, Allyson Shiffman, W Magazine, 2014
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Cassandra Coblentz, 2014
Mike Bray’s ‘Fragments of an Unknowable Whole’ at Fourteen30 Contemporary by John Motley, May 2013
Face Time: A Year of Writing with Fourteen30 Contemporary by John Motley, February 2011
It Takes Two: Mike Bray by Jenny Le, Opening Ceremony, January 2010
Portland2010 biennial exhibition catalog, December 2010
Review: It was never about the audience by Lisa Radon, Ultrapdx.com, October 2010
Editorial: Recommendations by Richard Speer, Visual Art Source, October 2010
vvork.com, October 2010
Provincialism at Work! by Jessica Powers, ArtSlant, April 2010
Show of the Month: Portland 2010 @ Rocksbox: Ditch Projects, Open Wide PDX, March 2010 Portland2010 Revisited by Graham Bell, Portland Monthly Magazine, March 2010
Add It Up by Lisa Radon, Ultrapdx.com, April, 2010
Critics Picks: Are You Ready for the Country? by Micah Malone, ArtForum, April 2010
On the Scene in Portland by Natalie Hegert, ArtSlant, January 2010
Currently Hanging by Jen Graves, The Stranger, July 2008
When two ax arcs are not the same by Regina Hackett, Seattle P-I, July 2008
Art that’s made it past a discriminating judge by Rachel Shimp, Seattle Weekly, December 2007
Retinal Reverb Revisited by Amy Bernstein, Portlandart.net, May 2007