Jay Bailey makes paintings and drawings which focus on memory and fragmentation. The images he makes are records and meditations of people and places, forms and whispers.
Jay Bailey was born in Reno, Nevada in 1976. He has a BA in Fine Art from the University of Nevada in Reno, undertook post-baccalaureate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and has his MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has shown his work in group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
He currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
His work can be found in Santa Fe at Evoke Contemporary and in Saint Jo, Texas at Davis & Blevins Gallery.