Renée Rey, an award-winning artist, lives and works in Delray Beach, Florida.

She creates mystical worlds through paintings, mixed media art, and installations, blending surrealism, abstraction, and historical Japanese painting techniques. Her work is deeply influenced by personal experiences, memory, and research, exploring historical and cultural ties to land, sea, and air. She emphasizes themes of solidarity, shared responsibility, and environmental stewardship in the face of climate change. Her art, composed of fragmented imagery from her explorations, challenges perception and reveals the transformative power of imagined realms, prompting reflection on fragility, resilience, connection, division, and spiritual quests.

Honored with the 2024 Dina Baker Fund Grant from the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Rey's work has graced galleries across the globe. Recent solo shows include Bailey Contemporary Arts Gallery, Pompano Beach, FL, Tauni De Lessep Gallery at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL, and the Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL. Her group exhibitions span the Baker Museum, Naples, FL, Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY, Studio 33, Spain, Art Brut Biennale, Netherlands, and Project Space Brut, South Korea.

Rey’s artwork has been recognized in national awards and exhibitions by notable museum and gallery professionals, including Jade Dellinger, Director of Exhibits & Collections, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery; Julie Sasse, Chief Curator, Tucson Museum of Art; Erin Wright, Commissioning Editor and Producer, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; and Gisela Carbonell, Curator, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL.

Rey was awarded artist residencies at Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, commencing in September 2024, Bailey Contemporary Arts (2023-2024), School of Visual Arts in New York (2019), and Sun Peaks Center for Art and Sustainability (2016). Her art is in the collections of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New York, NY, First Albany, New York, NY, and Wasmer Art Collection at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL.

A dynamic lecturer, Rey has inspired students at Florida Gulf Coast University, New College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. With nearly a decade of teaching drawing, painting, creative expression, and interior design in Florida, Rey brings a wealth of experience and education to her work.

Her background includes extensive undergraduate coursework in drawing, painting, 3-D design, performance art, and art history and graduate courses in film and computer art. She holds an MBA in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an A.A.S. in Interior Design from Parsons School of Design, an M.A. in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a B.A. in Judaic Studies from the University at Albany. This diverse educational foundation infuses her artistic practice with exceptional depth and perspective.