Mary-Ann Ray

Studio Works, Los Angeles CA, Beijing China

Off Center City Conundrums, Los Angeles, Beijing, Rome

Monday, February 25, 2008
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Max Abramovitz Distinguished Lecture

Mary-Ann Ray was born in 1958 in Seattle, Washington, where in 1981, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Washington. She went on to receive a Masters degree in Architecture from Princeton University in 1987, and the Rome Prize of 1987-1988.

Ms. Ray's professional experience includes work with Michael Graves, Architect, James Turrell, Artist, and Richard Meier and Partners. Currently, and since 1985, she is a principal along with Robert Mangurian, at Studio Works in Los Angeles. Studio Works has designed and successfully completed projects ranging from furniture, buildings, publications, and urban design to a major work of archaeology- an in progress new plan for Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.

Awards, Grants and Honors include PA Design Awards, Architecture Magazines's Visionary Design Awards, Graham Foundation and Ford Foundations Grants. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Gagosian/Castelli Gallery in New York, the Phillipe Uzzan Galerie in Paris, the Des Moines Art Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Ms. Ray has lectured widely, has taught at Rice University as Visiting Wortham Professor, Yale University as visiting Saarinen Professor, and continues as a full time graduate design studio and seminar faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. She is currently the Chair of the Environmental Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

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