Ray Turner (born in 1958), is an American artist known primarily for his portrait and landscape paintings.
He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in 1985 where he subsequently taught for 13 years as a professor of painting and drawing.
In 2010, his paintings were shown at the Pasadena Museum of California Art alongside those of Wayne Thiebaud.
It has been reviewed and written about by several notable critics and historians such as Peter Frank, art historian and critic, Ken Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, and Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times.
Turner's Population exhibition was listed in the Huffington Post as one of the top shows to see in March 2011[1] and was positively reviewed in July 2011 by notable Art Critic, Edward Goldman.