Zoe Bray is a FrancoBritishBasque artist based in Reno, Nevada (USA), on  indigenous Washeshu and Paiute land.

Her practice focuses on painting and drawing from life, using traditional fine art techniques and experimenting with unconventional approaches,     

including things that humans might consider trash. 

Zoe explores the boundaries between art and ethnography, engaging in questions of identity, representation and human relations with nature.

She uses art to build bridges between diverse cultural communities, and awareness of the natural environment.

As of 2020, and especially since the COVID pandemic, her practice focuses on eco art - making art from and with nature - in the spirit of reduce, refuse, reuse, and connection with nature.  

She developed her knowledge of fine arts and natural craft based in different locations across Europe, the Middle East and North America, including at the Florence Academy of Art and Charles Cecil Studios in Italy, and the contemporary art center Arteleku in the Basque Country. 

Artist residencies and exhibits include the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX, the Margaret Mead Festival at the American Natural History Museum, NYC, the Chicago Arts Incubator, Beita Center for Social-Based Art in West Jerusalem, the Willy Brandt Center in East Jerusalem, the Nature Conservancy in Beatty, NV, and most recently the Lilley Art Museum at the University of Nevada Reno and the nature reserve of the Littoral Basque at Nekatoenea.  

Her first children’s book was published in 2022, a story illustrated and written by her in English, French, Spanish and Basque, entitled (in English)

‘What Amatxi Whispered’.