Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions: 

2024: Night House, Ardest Gallery, The Woodlands, TX , solo exhibition of drawings, paintings, objects
2022: State of Mind, Monterosso Gallery, Houston, Texas (April), solo exhibition of drawings and paintings

2022: The Trees Are Talking, immersive ecoart installation TankSpace, Houston, Texas (April May)
2020: Seen and Unseen Bosque Gallery, LoneStar College- Cyfair, Cypress, Texas

Select Two Person Exhibitions 

2026: (Upcoming) Mother Earth Shows The Way, Ellen H Ray & Cathie Kayser, Box 13, HTX (September)

2025: TRIAGE, Ellen H Ray and Heather L. Johnson, Throughline Collective (March) 

2019: Ancestors: New Works by Damon Thomas & Ellen Ray, Jung Center Houston
2019: Excavations: Selected Works of Ellen Ray and Erik Hagen, Silos Gallery 200 

Select Group Exhibitions (Curator/Juror)

2025: The Space We Make, Throughline Collective member exhibition

2024: Solastalgia, San Jacinto College South Gallery, Houston, TX. (Kayser/Ray)

2024: Artist Run, Artist Organized, Fotofest, Houston, TX
2024: Straight Like That, ICOSA, Austin, TX (Mueni Loko Rudd)
2024: Transmissions, Ecoartspace at Canopy, Austin, TX 

2023: Volume 1: RISE, Throughline Collective, inaugural exhibition, Houston, Texas
2023: Egg Stories, Bosque Gallery, Lone Star College Cyfair (Heather Braman)
2023: The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston (Kanitra Fletcher)
2023: Open Juried Exhibition, VAA ( Alison de Lima Greene) May
2021: 37th VAA Juried Open Exhibition (Dr. Harry Cooper, National Gallery)
2021: CAL National, Conroe, Texas (Heidi Vaughan, Sherry Tseng Hill) (award winner)
2021: BLOCK XX, Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Glassell School of Art 2021: BLOCK XIX: Selected Works The Glassell School of Art, MFAH
2019: Without Borders, Mönchskirche, Salzwedel, Germany (Hans Molzberger)

2018: El Corazón, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas ( José Vargas)
2017: The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston Texas (Toby Kamps) 

Grants, Residencies, & Honors

2026: SACI (Support for Artists and Creative Individuals) recipient Houston Arts Alliance

2024: Wendy Wagner Foundation Finalist

2024—2025 selected for Throughline Collective membership

2023 Artpace International Residency finalist, San Antonio, Tx
2020 Collection of Baylor School of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2019 Atelier Haus Residency,
Hilmsen, Germany

2018 — 2020 BLOCK XIX & BLOCK XX - Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas

Affiliations:

  • Throughline Collective, Houston, Tx  

  • BLOCK Alumni cohorts 2019 and 2020 , Glassell School of Art

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