Ray Kelly
Visual Artist
(Re)Create Residency
Castlenuovo Calcea, Italy
2007

Arriving in New York City from his family farm in Texas in 1964 to study painting at the Art Student‘s League, Cowboy Ray Kelly lived an art-filled and adventurous life ever since, including ending the tumultuous decade of the 1960‘s as Mark Rothko‘s painting assistant for three years while the Rothko Chapel in Houston was being built. He apprenticed with Herbert Ferber, taught fresco, briefly, at Skowhegan School and founded the Rivington School on New York‘s Lower East Side in the 80‘s. He‘s shown work worldwide including P.S.1, Socrates Sculpture park, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum.