Dray is an internationally recognized painter best known for his colorful portraits of beautiful women, musical themed abstract canvases and large scale murals. Two of which are now in the permanent collection of the Hispanic Museum of Nevada and the Erotic Heritage Museum in Nevada also. His paintings have been collected in various regions of the world.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA in 1966. At age seven, Dray enrolls in the Barnsdall Park Art School in Los Feliz, California. Later he would focus his talents on studying drafting and architecture but he is primarily a self-taught artist.

His work is influenced by Beckmann, Rauschenberg, Basquiat and Picasso. Dray is also inspired by his continuing strong connection to both cubism and graffiti art. These influences segued the transition that brought him out of portraiture painting and into a more investigative field of expression.

Dray began to focus even more on just visual arts when he moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas at the turn of the century. This move marked his decision to devote all of his time to developing his artistic vision as a painter. While living in Las Vegas he has been one of the key players in creating an art scene there. His approach as an artist is fused with an abiding interest in community. He was one of the first local artists to live and work in the downtown Arts District. He turned his studio into a dynamic place to work and exhibit and turned his atelier inside out by transforming the building's exterior into a dramatic series of wall murals. He is responsible for a number of other murals in the Las Vegas Arts District which now has more murals than any other area of the city.

Dray has served on the First Friday Advisory Committee, a 15 member board that plans and implements First Friday, downtown Las Vegas’ monthly event that draws as many as 10,000 visitors at a time to the Arts District. In 2005 Dray was selected to participate in a key project for the City of 100 Murals - the largest public art initiative ever undertaken in Las Vegas. As one of 5 artists selected by the Las Vegas Springs Preserves, he worked with over 300 4th graders to create a series of murals on the sound walls of the Preserve that now decorate a stretch of US-95.

This experience in working with young people is one of the many factors that inspired him to travel to Sri Lanka in 2006. He was welcomed by the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka's daughter, (Sunethra Bandaranaike) to support the work of the Sunera Foundation. - A Sri Lankan charity dedicated to fostering the creative vision of young Sri Lankans with a disability. Dray resided in this small country just south of India in preparation for an exhibition at Bay Leaf Restaurant in Colombo Sri Lanka. This exhibition was sponsored by the Sunera Foundation and Triad Advertising in which all of the proceeds from the exhibition went to disabled children.