BORN Brooklyn, Wellington 1939
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1966 Thirty Birds, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1967 Studies of New Zealand Wildlife, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1976 Drawings, The Falcon Gallery, Auckland
1977 Ray Ching: Recent Paintings & Drawings, Rye Gallery, Rye, England
1977 Ray Ching: Recent Paintings & Drawings, International Art Centre, Auckland
1980 Paintings, International Art Centre,, Auckland
1982 Bird Paintings & Sketches, Tryon & Moorland Galleries, London
1982 Ray Ching: Paintings & Drawings, International Art Centre, Auckland
1986 The Gilded Triptych & Recent Wildlife Paintings, The Tryon & Moorland Galleries, London
1988 Wild Portraits, Rye Art Gallery, Rye, England
Wild Portraits, The Tryon & Moorland Galleries, London
Wild Portraits, The Australian Galleries / The Tryon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1989 Paintings & Drawings, Charlotte H. Gallery, Auckland
Drawings of New Zealand Birds, Charlotte H. Gallery, Auckland
1993 Recent Paintings & Drawings, The Tryon Gallery, London
1994 Voice from the Wilderness, paintings and drawings, The Tryon Gallery, London
The SAPPI Commission, paintings and drawings, The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Southern African Bird Portraits, The SAPPI Collection, Central City Gallery, London, England
1996 Ray Harris Ching, Recent Paintings, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996 Wildfowl & Gamebirds, Tryon & Swann Gallery, London, England
1997 Beds, 8 Paintings by Ray Ching, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998 Ray Ching: A True Story, Tryon & Swann Gallery, London
Ray Ching: A True Story, Rye Gallery, Rye, England
Ray Ching: Puzzles & Fragments, 10 Paintings, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 Ray Ching: Paintings, (A True Story), Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
Ray Ching Paintings, (A True Story), Jonathan Grant Galleries, Auckland
2001 Ray Ching: Fragments, 10 Paintings, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
Ray Ching: Fragments, 10 Paintings, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
2002 Ray Ching: Measured Drawings, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
Ray Ching: Measured Drawings, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
2004 Ray Ching: Bird Paintings, Pacific Galleries, LaFayette, California, U.S.A.
2005 The Last Tree Fell, Artis Gallery, Auckland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1972 Bird Artists of the World, The Tryon Gallery, London
1974 Bird Books and Bird Art, The Moorland Gallery, London
1975 Endangered Species, The Tryon Gallery, London
1976 Animal Art, Pieter Wenning Gallery / Tryon Gallery, South Africa
1977 Jubilee Exhibition, The Tryon & Moorland Galleries, London
1979 Society of Animal Artist’s Exhibition, Sportsman’s Edge / Explorer’s Club, New York, U.S.A.
Birds in Art Exhibition, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
1980 Birds in Art Exhibition, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
1981 Tryon & Moorland Artists’ Major Wildlife Exhibition, Tryon Gallery, London
1981 Society of Animal Artists’ Exhibition, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
1982 Birds in Art Exhibition, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
1983 Birds in Art Exhibition, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
1984 Bird Artists of the World, Everard Read Gallery / The Tryon Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1985 Birds in Art Exhibition, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
Wildlife Art Society of Australasia, Melbourne, Australia
Wildlife Artists of the World, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Collector’s Covey, Dallas, U.S.A.
1986 Birds in Art Exhibition, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
Everard Read / Stremmel Gallery, U.S.A.
Nature in Art, Society of Wildlife Art for the Nations, England
1987 Wildlife in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
1990 From Dusk to Dawn, The Tryon & Moorland Gallery, London
1992 Twenty Years in Cork Street, The Tryon Gallery, London
Museum Awards, King Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1994 Animal Paintings, Brighton Art Galleries & Museum, Sussex, England
1995 Animal Paintings, Brighton Art Galleries & Museum, Sussex, England
Wildlife & Conservation, Halcyon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Natural History Paintings & Sculpture, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Painswick House, Gloucestershire, England
1996 Parrots, Tryon & Swann Gallery, London
Miniatures, Holland & Holland Gallery, London
1997 Master Artist at Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
Wildlife & Conservation, Halcyon Gallery, Birmingham, England
1998 Birds in Art Exhibition, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
2000 Wildlife Art for a New Century, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Wyoming, U.S.A.
2003 Birds in Art 2003, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
2004 Birds in Art 2004, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, U.S.A.
2005 Wildlife Art for a New Century II, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, U.S.A.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
National Museum of Wildlife Art, U.S.A.
Solitaire Lodge, Rotorua, New Zealand
Estate of Daniel M. Galbreath
The Amin Shah Gallery
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Reader’s Digest A.A. Book of British Birds, Reader’s Digest, London, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1992.
Snow, David, A.H Chisholm and M.F. Soper. Raymond Ching, The Bird Paintings, London, 1978 and Auckland, 1984, 1985.
Harris-Ching, Raymond. Studies & Sketches of a Bird Painter, Melbourne, 1981.
Hansard, Peter. The Art of Raymond Ching, Auckland, 1981.
Rayfield, Susan. Wildlife Painting. Techniques of Modern Masters, New York, 1985.
Hammond, Nicholas. Twentieth Century Wildlife Artists, New York, 1986.
Harris-Ching, Raymond. New Zealand Birds, An Artist’s Field-Studies, Auckland, 1986.
Hansard, Peter. Wild Portraits, Paintings and Drawings by Raymond Harris-Ching, Auckland 1988.
Rayfield, Susan. Painting Birds, New York, 1988.
Fuller, Errol (ed.). Kiwis, A Monograph of the Apterygidae, Auckland, 1990.
Smith, Carol Sinclair. Ray Harris-Ching, Journey of an Artist (Masters of the Wild), South Carolina, 1990.
Tomlinson, David. Nature in Art, London, 1991.
Lang, David and Raymond Harris-Ching, Ray Harris-Ching: Voice from the Wilderness, Auckland, 1994.
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