📷 Shown here: Artist Man Ray Man Ray’s artistic beginnings can be traced to the Dada movement. Dada artists shared a profound disillusionment with traditional modes of art making and often turned instead to experimentation. In his photograms, Man Ray embraced the possibilities for irrational combinations and chance arrangements of objects. Around the same time, Man Ray’s experiments with photography carried him to the center of the emergent Surrealist movement in Paris. Working across mediums and historical movements, Man Ray was an integral part of The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition program early on. His photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, films, and even a chess set were included in landmark early exhibitions at the museum. ♟️ You’ll find Ray’s “Chess Set” and more works by the artist on display in our fifth-floor galleries! — Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). “Self-Portrait with Camera.” 1931. Gift of James Thrall Soby. © 2026 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
There was an awesome exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art when I was a kid. It's burnt into my brain. I bet Man Ray was part of it. Thanks for the cool little bio.
Was able to see some really interesting Man Ray works at The Frist Museum in Nashville this weekend. I learned a lot about him and his art. Hope to see more at MoMA sometime too!