- Has a daughter named Lisa.
- Was the subject of a 1982 documentary film, "Portrait of an Artist: Ray Grist," produced, directed and edited by Véronique N. Doumbé and aired on Manhattan Cable in 1982.
- Editor-in-Chief since 1989 of magazine "Jump News: The Medium for Movement, a Forum for New World Culture."
- Member of a group of black artists, The Pow Wow Group.
- African-American painter whose family came from St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Grist taught an art instruction class in New York in the 1950s.
- Brother of Reri Grist.
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