Raymond Rowe was born and raised in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia and is a citizen of India. He moved to Wisconsin in 1994 and currently resides in Brownsville.

India is a land of beautiful contradictions. I have rediscovered India as an adult and through my paintings try to share this experience with the rest of the world. My paintings are based on photographs I have taken over the years during my visits to India. My work is a counterpoint to Oriental-ism; an archaic and colonialist view of the “mysterious east”. I neither romanticize nor demonize, rather I try to show and celebrate the humdrum and the workday person on the street.