Ray Dovell is an architect and artist born in New York. As an artist working primarily with epoxy resins, he recasts ordinary objects in unexpected ways to create flat, relief, and sculptural pieces. He often uses his body as an armature to create fossilized forms out of everyday objects or cast the shells of familiar, man-made items. He deliberately distorts and selectively destructs materials as a way of offering commentary on how we view ourselves as physical beings or to highlight the secret life of objects we typically take for granted. Ray's work is in private collections in the United States and abroad.

Ray attended New York University and Pratt Institute, where he studied architecture and art and earned a professional degree in architecture. His deep attention to materiality, form, and transformation has informed his approach to architectural design for some 40 years. Ray is a founding partner of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, an award-winning firm based in New York.