1993 Bachelor of Arts, CSU Bathurst
2012 National Arts School, Sydney
2025 The Place We Feel Most Us Tyger Gallery
2025 Plus Affordable Art Fair
2024 The River Between Us, Michael Reid Southern Highlands
2024 The Road to Wee Jasper, Tyger Gallery
2024 Special Release Michael Reid Southern Highlands
2022 What the Wayfarer Saw,
2022 Major solo exhibition Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2022 The River, Michael Reid Southern Highlands
2021 Red Fish, Blue Fish, Purple Noon Gallery
2020 After the Fire, Purple Noon Gallery
2019 Backyard Summer, Michael Reid Murrurundi
2018 Over the Back Fence, Michael Reid Murrurundi
2016 It’s For Your Own Good, M16 Artspace, Canberra
2014 Dry Your Tears, Stur Gallery, Braidwood
2013 Dark Side of the Road, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2012 Summer in Berlin, ArtHouse Gallery, Sydney
2012 A Dingo Ate My Baby, TAP Gallery, Sydney
2023 Crossing the void, Fathom Gallery, Seattle
2023 Queer the Hill, The Cloud Gallery, Seattle
2022 All things Great and Small, Studio Altenburg, Braidwood
2021 Hope, Studio Altenburg, Braidwood
2020 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles
2019 The People Next Door, Studio Altenburg, Braidwood
2018 Coarse Stories, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2018 The Exhibition Project, City Recital Hall, Sydney
2017 The Other Art Fair, Melbourne & Sydney
2016 The Other Art Fair, Sydney
2025 BAMM Portrait Prize (Finalist)
2025 Queanbeyan Art Prize (Winner)
2025 Naked & Nude Art Prize (Finalist)
2024 Paddington Art Prize – Winner Anthea Polson Art Award
2024 Paddington Art Prize- Winner Rathenart Print Award
2024 ACT City Renewal Authority, Creative Hoarding Pilot Program
2024 Bundanon Artist-in-Residence
2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize (Finalist)
2024 Goulburn Art Award (Finalist)
2024 QPRC Art Award (Finalist)
2023 National Still Life Award (Finalist)
2023 Naked & Nude Art Prize (Finalist)
2023 WAMA Art Award (Finalist)
2023 When you are gone; Shunpike Storefronts art installation, Seattle
2023 The Reckoning; Seattle Restored, art installation, Seattle
2022 MPRG National Works on Paper (Finalist)
2022 Blake Art Prize (Finalist)
2022 Goulburn Art Award (Finalist)
2021 Paddington Art Prize (Finalist)
2021 Doug Moran Portrait Prize (Semi-finalist)
2020 Blake Prize (Finalist)
2020 MPRG National Works on Paper (Finalist)
2020 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (Finalist)
2020 Blacktown Art Prize (Finalist)
2020 Goulburn Art Award (Finalist)
2020 Queanbeyan Palerang Art Prize (Finalist)
2020 Veolia Mulwaree Creative Arts Scholarship
2019 Blacktown Art Prize (Finalist)
2019 Hawkesbury Art Prize (Finalist)
2019 Du Rietz Art Award (Finalist)
2019 Cossack Art Award (Finalist)
2019 Wyndham Art Prize (Finalist)
2017 Doug Moran Portrait Prize (Semi-finalist)
2017 Blacktown Art Prize (Finalist)
2017 Wyndham Art Prize (Finalist)
2017 Queanbeyan Palerang Art Prize (Finalist)
2016 Albany Art Prize (Finalist)
2016 Goulburn Art Prize (Finalist)
2015 Gold Coast Art Prize (Finalist)
Selected Bibliography
2020 Viral Murals: Seattle Artists Chatwin Press, ISBN: 978-1633981218
2020 Art on Fire, Artplan Graphics
2020 Too Late to Leave, BWD Magazine, Number 22, Autumn 2020
2018 Art on Farms, Artplan Graphics
2012 Artnotes, Art Monthly, Issue 251
Ray Monde is a queer contemporary paper artist who primarily works with paper-mâché and collage.
Ray Monde uses a technique called ghostworking where he over-paints fragments of paper sourced from magazines with thin glazes of synthetic polymer paint so the texture and images of the magazines ghost through the paint, adding depth and complexity to his work.
His works explore a deep connection to land and people, particularly men who seek solace in the landscape. Many of his works feature ‘little fellas’, staffage which examine the restrained power in the intimacy of men. Living on the banks of the upper Shoalhaven River, the motif of the river as a carrier of emotion and time, is a big influence on his work.
Ray Monde grew up on a farm in a dairying region on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales where he plastered his bedroom wall with cutouts from glossy magazines. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1993 and later studied at the National Arts School, Sydney in 2012.
After a successful career in advertising in Sydney, London and New York, Monde returned to his fascination with paper.
In 2022, Monde had his first major solo exhibition in a public gallery which brought to the fore the artist’s personal experience of queerness in regional Australia.
An artist-in-residence at Bundanon in 2024, he was commissioned to create public hoarding in the ACT as part of the City Renewal Authority and has a solo exhibition opening at Maitland Regional Art Gallery in February 2026.
He has exhibited widely and his works are in collections in the USA and internationally. Twice finalist in the Blake Prize, Doug Moran Portrait Prize, National Works on Paper Award and Paddington Art Prize. He’s also recently been a finalist in the National Still Life Award and the Naked & Nude Art Prize.
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