Raymond E. Mingst is an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers mourning, devotion, and the reanimation of cultural memory. Through found texts, ephemeral materials, and archival interventions, he creates objects, installations, and conceptual gestures that bring forward narratives made vulnerable by omission and institutional neglect. Drawing from historical archives and devotional aesthetics, his practice seeks to honor loss—particularly the early losses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic—preserve what has been overlooked, and reframe absence as a generative space of inquiry.
A 2021 Fellow of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Mingst’s work has been exhibited for more than two decades in museums, independent art spaces, and university galleries. He is the co-founder and co-director of Curious Matter, an exhibition and project space in Jersey City that connects artists across disciplines, generations, and perspectives.
He lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey.