Eleanor Ray is an American painter based in Brooklyn, New York.
[2] She has painted art-historically significant sites, including Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" at the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Donald Judd's installations in Marfa, Texas, and frescoed interiors in Assisi, Florence, and Padua, Italy.
[3] Writing about her work in 2019, the critic Kyle Chayka compared it to Giorgio Morandi and Pierre Bonnard.
[4] Ray believes that the smaller scale of the paintings allows for more control and intimacy.
[6] Ray has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting[7] and residencies at Yaddo,[8] Ucross Foundation,[9][10] and Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University.