Angel Cotray (New York City, b. 1995)

   COTRAY is a multidisciplinary artist and native New Yorker from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She first learned the fundamentals of oil painting in 2017 while studying fine art and double majoring in psychology. In 2020, she received her undergraduate degree with high honors from Hunter College— just before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down New York City. Her practice focused on Figurative painting as a means to cope with the solidarity and isolation of quarantine.

   Since then, COTRAY has further developed her practice utilizing a diverse range of materials/ processes. Influenced by various painting styles of the past, while also infusing photography into her process, her figurations have evolved to somber yet colorful subjects in the midst of a Self Awakening. Sharing her most intimate present-based thoughts through visual storytelling. The work by its own nature is therapeutic. 

COTRAY is an independent artist. She is not currently represented by any gallery in the US or internationally.