About

Hey, it's Ray! I'm a Filipino-American artist based in Pensacola, Florida. My areas of practice includes painting, animation, digital arts, photography, mural painting, and video. Compelled to explore the intersection of individual experience and collective history through the ways humanity impacts our environment, each other, and ourselves.

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Raylene Solis B. 1999, US

EDUCATION

BFA, Studio Art, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

BA, Art Administration, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

Minor in Environmental Sustainability, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

GRANTS | AWARDS | RECOGNITIONS

2024 Angels In Our Midst, WEAR news segment, Pensacola FL

2024 Rising Star Award, InWeekly Publication, Pensacola, FL

2022 Office of Undergraduate Research Grant, natural materials and indigenous identity research painting process

2021 $245 UWF Bookstore Scholarship granted by Department of Art and Design

2018 $16,000 UWF Academic Excellence Scholarship

2018 Florida Medallion Scholarship

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Members Show, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL (juried)

2024 Inaugural Exhibition, Pensacola Saenger Theatre, Pensacola, FL (invitational)

2023 Horrors, Gores, and Fears - Oh My!, Icon Modern Art Gallery, Pensacola, FL (juried)

2023 Featured artist, Permanent Paint Tattoo and Fine Art Studios of Pensacola, Pensacola, FL

2023 Gallery Night’s January Featured Artist, Pensacola, FL

2022 BFA exit show Synthesis, TAG, Pensacola, FL

2022 True Beauty, (Online) Exhhibizone, (juried)

2021 Members Show, Artel Gallery, Pensacola, FL (juried)

2021 Semi-Annual Pop-Up Exhibition (Online/Fall), CFPA, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL (Invitational)

2021 Tagged Student Show, Center for Fine and Performing Arts, University of West Florida, Pensacola FL (juried)

2020 Semi-Annual Pop-Up Exhibition (Online/Fall), CFPA, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL (Invitational)

2020 Pieces Adrift Art Show, Keep Pensacola Beautiful, Pensacola FL (invitational)

2020 Legal Tender, Interzone, Pensacola FL (invitational)

2019 Gallery 1060 Art Show, Gallery 1060, First City Art Center, Pensacola FL (juried)

2019 Semi-Annual Pop-Up exhibition (Spring), Center for Fine and Performing Arts, University of West Florida, Pensacola FL (invitational)

2019 Tagged Student Show Center for Fine and Performing Arts, University of West Florida, Pensacola FL (juried)

2019 Points of Departure student show spring Center for Fine and Performing Arts, University of West Florida, Pensacola FL (juried)

2018 Points of Departure student show spring Center for Fine and Performing Arts, University of West Florida, Pensacola FL (juried)

PUBLICATIONS

2023 Feminist Spaces

2023 Culturally Arts Modern Renaissance Spring 2023 issue

2022 Troubadour Zine

2021 InWeekly, AAPI Heritage Month feature

EXPERIENCE

2024-Now Director of Youth Art Programming, First City Art Center, Pensacola, FL

2022-2023 Welcome Newborn Photographer, Pensacola, FL

2015-2023 Summer Art Camp volunteer, counselor, teacher, First City Art Center, Pensacola, FL

2018-2023 Local artisan market vendor participant, Pensacola, FL

2022 Intern, Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program, Pensacola, FL

2021 Intern, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL

2019-20 Historian, Kappa Pi International Art Honor Society: Kappa Alpha chapter, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL