Renée Rey

I am an award-winning artist living and working in south Florida, USA.

I have a vision.

It is a construct for binding equality, inclusion, and a healthy world.

For almost a decade, I investigate these concepts through creating other-worldly ecospheres in wall-sized and intimate-scaled paintings, mixed media, and assemblage artwork.

I explore connection, kinship and sustainability among diverse people, nature, and technology, and rebel against their absence. Ideas of belonging, isolation, hope, loss, diaspora, and self-determination erupt.

The integration of these concepts are rooted in my experiences as a woman with a diverse multi-cultural American/Jewish and Armenian/Christian family history and heritage, and birthplace in Japan. I don't always recognize their imprint in my creative process. I like the mystery.

In my paintings, people, nature, and technology rupture and collide. They are in a state of flux. Androgynous human figures defy age, gender, and race. Water towers, cement factories, and buildings jockey for empowering sustainability. I sometimes meld verses from the Bible, Koran, and Buddhism that reference our shared connection and commitment to the stewardship of the environment. They bind humanity.

In two-di...

INDEPENDENT ART STUDIES
Visiting Critic Program/Sculpture, Video, Installation,NYC Crit Club, New York, NY
Art Career Intensive, NYC Crit Club, New York, NY, Summer 2020
Art Theory and Writing, New York City Crit Club, New York, NY, Summer 2019
Graduate School Style Critique Classes, New York City Crit Club, New York, NY, Spring 2019
Undergraduate Course, Art History, Palm Beach State College, Lake Worth, FL, Spring 2019
Graduate Courses, Film and Computer Art; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Undergraduate Courses, Painting, Drawing, Performance Art; Westchester Community College Center for the Arts, White Plains, NY
Undergraduate Courses, Drawing, Interior Design; Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Undergraduate Courses, Painting, Drawing, 3-D Design; The University at Albany, Albany, NY
Painting Classes, Art Students League, New York, NY

2002 M.B.A. Management; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1985 A.A.S. Interior Design; Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1981 M.A. Jewish Education; Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
1978 B.A. Judaic Studies; University at Albany, Albany, NY
1976-77 Junior Year Abroad Program; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Beyond This Point, Tauni De Lessep Gallery, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL

2020 Original Spin, Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville, AL

2015 Renée Rey Solo Exhibition, Norris Center Gallery, Norris Center, Naples, FL

2010 In the Spirit, West Wing Gallery, Naples Main Library, Naples, FL
2006 Mythos, Century Hotel Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Healing to the 5th Power, Roxcy O’Neal Bolton Women’s Park History Gallery Miami,FL
1996 In the Spirit, The Gallery at the Bruised Apple, Peekskill, NY
1996 Peace by Piece, Westchester Reform Temple Art Gallery, Scarsdale, NY
1995 Renée Rey, Carroll-Condit Gallery, White Plains, NY
1995 Peace by Piece, YM-YMHA Mid-Westchester Art Gallery, Scarsdale, NY
1994 Exposed: The Drawn and Painted Figure, The Gallery, Playhouse Gallery on Vandam, New York, NY

TWO - FOUR ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

2020 When We See Further, Heather Couch, Marina Font, Terre Rybovich, Renée Rey, Wasmer Art Gallery, Fort Myers, FL

2018 Insatiable—contemporary investigations of hunger, desire, longing, curated by Catherine Bergmann, Curatorial Director, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL

2015 Enlightenment, Renée Rey, Peter Sargent, Gene Masters Salerno, Shangri-La Art Gallery, Bonita Spr...