NIGHTINGALE
2025 (4:27)

NIGHTINGALE documents an ongoing durational performance/intervention/collaboration with a public monument: a 1933 statue of Florence Nightingale located in Lincoln Park, Los Angeles. This video originally screened at the MCA (Chicago, IL). Recipient of The New Art School Modality Production Fellowship Award in honor of Val Gray Ward.

THE GHOST KINGDOM
2023-2026 (3:15)

THE GHOST KINGDOM considers adoption in relation to hauntology, archives, and theoretical physics. This video was included in the exhibition “The Ghost Kingdom” (Cerritos College, 2026).

ONE FOOT IN ONE FOOT OUT
2026 (2:14)

ONE FOOT IN ONE FOOT OUT was created for the exhibition “The Ghost Kingdom” (Cerritos College, 2026). It leverages Joy Ray’s personal archive of family photographs to raise questions of identity and belonging for adopted people.

VOICE(S)
2025 (1:39)

VOICE(S) was created in conjunction with The New School Art Modality and originally screened at Hauser & Wirth (New York, New York). In this video, Joy Ray (with the help of an AI chorus), considers what it means to “find your voice.”

FIRST COMES LOVE
2021 (:07)

Created in conjunction with Ghost Visions (Shockboxx Project, Hermosa Beach, 2021).

LAST CHANCE SALOON
2021 (:11)

Created in conjunction with Ghost Visions (Shockboxx Project, Hermosa Beach, 2021).

HERE KITTY KITTY
2021 (:08)

Created in conjunction with Ghost Visions (Shockboxx Project, Hermosa Beach, 2021).

MAYBE MAYBE NOT
2021 (:10)

WE SEE YOU
2021 (:12)

HELP US
2021 (:10)