Zoë Bray

Zoe Bray is an artist, author and illustrator, currently based in the USA. She is also a portrait painter, particularly known for her series of portraits of the Basque diaspora. She has an MA in Social Anthropology from Edinburgh University, Scotland, and a PhD in Social and Political Science, European University Institute, Italy. She trained as an artist at the Charles Cecil Studios and Florence Academy of Art in Italy, as well as residencies in Arteleku, San Sebastián (Basque Country), and with painters Guillermo Muñoz Vera and Antonio López in Spain. After periods spent in London and Berlin, she served as assistant professor at the Center for Basque Studies of the University of Nevada Reno, Lady Davis visiting fellow at the Hebrew University, and associate faculty for Core Humanities at UNR, before devoting herself full-time to her art.