page_title: Alberto Rey
hierarchical_section_title: Alberto Rey
caption_attribution_description: English: Alberto Rey' photographed by Buffalo-based artist David Moog. Used with permission from the artist.
context_page_description: Alberto Rey is an American painter, illustrator, filmmaker, educator, writer, and Orvis-endorsed fly-fishing guide. His work has been featured in over 200 exhibitions and screenings and has been included in the permanent collections of twenty museums including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Burchfield Penney Art Center, El Museo del Barrio, Extremaduran and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Latin American Art, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Rey is a distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He has written two books about extinct birds and the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, and has also had many articles and illustrations published in several magazines. Art historians and curators have also written one book and several essays about his work. Rey has recently been selected as an international finalist for the 2020 Orvis Freshwater Guide of the Year.
context_section_description: Alberto Rey  (born 7 August 1960 in Havana, Cuba) is an American painter, illustrator, filmmaker, educator, writer, and Orvis-endorsed fly-fishing guide.  His work has been featured in over 200 exhibitions and screenings and has been included in the permanent collections of twenty museums including Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY), the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Burchfield Penney Art Center, El Museo del Barrio, Extremaduran and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Latin American Art, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Rey is a distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He has written two books about extinct birds and the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, and has also had many articles and illustrations published in several magazines. Art historians and curators have also written one book and several essays about his work. Rey has recently been selected as an international finalist for the 2020 Orvis Freshwater Guide of the Year.
caption: Alberto Rey photographed by David Moog.
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