Simona Ray is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work investigates the subjectivity of human perception, rooted in her childhood question: "Do you see the same colour I see? And do we see the same colour at all?" It is not about...
Read MoreSimona Ray is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work investigates the subjectivity of human perception, rooted in her childhood question: "Do you see the same colour I see? And do we see the same colour at all?"
It is not about colour. It is about how differently each of us sees this world. And how rarely we truly see each other, and ourselves.
Everything she makes is directed towards this enquiry, asked in many different ways.
In painting, she mixes metallic paint into her canvases, so each one shifts with the light and with the eye that meets it. The same painting is never the same. A poem arrives mid-brushstroke, written at the easel; the canvas and the poem say what the other cannot. Whether it is her Greek goddess series or a commission, she is uncovering something unique that was always there, only not yet seen.
The enquiry moves beyond the canvas too. In her 2025 performance SEE YOU in Times Square, she returned every hour to stand still for a minute with her question. In her digital interactive work, "Journey: from looking to seeing", four rooms let viewers choose the truth for themselves.
Her work has been displayed in Prague, Madrid, Miami, New York, and Paris.
But for her, the real recognition is quieter: the moment someone finally sees themselves.
Art is a mirror. A breath.
It is a reminder that in all the chaos, we are still human.
