Founded in 2009, Durden and Ray is an artist-run gallery in downtown Los Angeles composed of 25 artist-curators. The members work collectively to produce exhibitions at the gallery and in collaboration with artist groups and exhibition spaces internationally. The programme focuses on small, tightly curated group exhibitions organised by the members, alongside invitations to international artists as part of an ongoing engagement with global exchange and alternative networks.
Durden and Ray operates through a hybrid model that expressly overlaps multiple strategies, including the commercial potential and visual identity of a gallery, the democratic structure of an artist group, the potential to create collaborative works of art in the manner of a collective, and the shared fiscal support of its programmes by group members and project partners similar to a non-profit organisation. Durden and Ray is committed both to individual praxis and to shared aims of curatorial experimentation, visual research, and artistic exchange with international partners.