About my art work
Intuitive artist exploring what’s inside through art.
My work fluctuates with how I’m feeling and what I’m thinking, like a journal entry. Ideas and thoughts bubble up and are released into textural, organic shapes and colors. My subconscious plays a crucial role in transforming my subject matter and guides me through the process of creating art.
Working with my photography, texture-building materials, color, and movement to express what can’t easily be translated into words.
Inspiration comes from my travels (familiar and foreign), people (I meet as well as friends and family), and the experiences that are created through this transpiration.
Based in Brooklyn, NY and Chicago, IL
BFA from Columbia College of Chicago
Exhibitions
Upcoming (Solo) Everybody Coffee, Chicago, IL — November - January, 2025Upcoming (Group) Chicago Collage Magazine Vol. 1 @ The Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL — November 15 (opening) - 24, 2024
Upcoming (Group) Necessary & Sufficient Coffee, Printers Row, Chicago, IL — November 24 (opening) - February 1, 2025
Current (Group) Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL — October, 2024
Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY — October 19 & 20, 2024
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL — July 13 - August 17, 2024
The Arts Center, Highland Park, IL — June 21 - August 12, 2024
Lemmings on Damen, Chicago, IL - January-March 2024
Village of Lincolnwood Art Gallery, Lincolnwood, IL - November & December, 2023
Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY - October 21-22, 2023
Superfine Art Fair, New York, NY - September 14-17, 2023
Hekate Cafe, New York, NY - July 28-August 19, 2022
Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY — Weekends, May 6-15, 2022
Arts Gowanus ArtWalk on Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY — June, 2022
Brooklyn Utopias: Along the Canal! Brooklyn, NY — April - June, 2022
BWAC, Brooklyn, NY — October 29- November 7, 2021
Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY — October 16-17, 2021 @ Shapeshifter Labs
Roots Cafe, Brooklyn, NY — May, 2021
PSWT Spring Salon, Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY — April 23 - May 2, 2021
Roots Cafe, Brooklyn, NY — May & June, 2020
Arts Gowanus on Atlantic Ave Art Walk, 472 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY — till Nov 1, 2020
ArtsPSWT presents Open Studios: Redux @ BWAC 481 Van Brunt St. Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY — November 7-8 & 14-15, 2020
Roots Cafe, Brooklyn, NY — May & June, 2020
Ossam Gallery - PSWT Central, Brooklyn, NY — November 9,10,16,17, 2019
PSWT Open Studios 2019, Brooklyn, NY — November 16-17, 2019
Gowanus Open Studios 2019, Brooklyn, NY — October 19-20, 2019
Court Tree Gallery, Brooklyn, NY — September-October, 2019
Roots Cafe, Brooklyn, NY — September-October, 2019
Nitehawk Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY — August-October, 2019
Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY — April, 2019
Robert Carroll Window, Brooklyn, NY — March, 2019
Empire Stores atrium (55 Water St), Brooklyn, NY — March, 2019
Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY — December 2018-February, 2019
Park Slope Windsor Terrace Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY - November 17-18, 2018
Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY - October 20-21, 2018
Jonathan Blum Studio, Brooklyn, NY — August, 2018
Wrythe Studio, Brooklyn, NY — May, 2018
Salon D'Art, New York, NY — November, 2012
Sketchbook Project, Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn — May, 2009
Park Slope Annual Open Studio, Brooklyn NY — May, 2008
El Levante, Rosario, Argentina — December, 2007
Project Flower Shop, Brooklyn, NY — December, 2006
Salon de Relocalisation, New York, NY — May, 2005
NYC Decom, Queens, NY — October, 2004
Hello Gorgeous, Seattle, WA — October, 2003
Wallingford Gallery, Seattle, WA — February, 2003
Salon Dewi, Seattle, WA — November, 2002
Georgetown Gallery, Seattle, WA — May, 2002
Vendaria, Inc, Seattle, WA — September – November, 2001
The Mark Gallery, Olympia, WA — July, 2001
Stella Beam, Seattle, WA — September, 1999 – August, 2000
Hadley's Art Space, Seattle, WA — January, 1999 – July, 1999
Art Works, Bellevue, WA — November, 1998
Gallery Jams, Port Townsend WA — December, 2007
Moongate, Port Townsend, WA — August, 2006
Salal Cafe, Port Townsend, WA — July, 2005
The Public House, Port Townsend, WA — February, 2005 - April, 2005
Cafe Ptarmigan, Port Townsend, WA — August, 2004
Interviews
PBS Next Avenue interview November, 2023PSWT artist studio visit May, 2021
Mavens do it better podcast February, 2020
Residencies
Jonathan Blum Studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2018El Lavante, Rosario, Argentina-Fall, 2007
Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI - Summer, 1988
Ways to buy my artwork
Venmo: @Raya-DukhanZelle: raya@panimau.com Through Saatchi
I also accept all major credit cards