Erika Ranee

Erika Ranee received her M.F.A. in painting from UC Berkeley. She is the recipient of two NYFA Fellowships in Painting (1996 and 2021); an AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum; a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Selected group shows include the Landing Gallery, California; Hollis Taggart Gallery, Connecticut; BRIC Project Room, New York; the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York; and Brigitte Mulholland Galerie, Paris. In 2024, Ranee's work was selected by artist Jeffrey Gibson for the Brooklyn Artists anniversary exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The following summer, she had her first career survey at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech. In 2025, her work was on view in group exhibitions at PPOW and CANADA, and a solo presentation at Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York City. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum and The New York Times.

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Classes (Selected)

• ART 6000 Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Theory and Art

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

• Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2022)
• New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) (2021, 1996)
• Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation (now Sharpe-Walentas) (2010)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

• Contact Sport, group exhibition with artists Rachel Eulena Williams, Walter Price, Meg Lipke, Pap Souleye, Elzie Williams, and Nickola Pottinger, New York City, May–July 2025
• My Saturn Return, solo exhibition at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York City, May–July 2025
• Side Lined, group exhibition with artists Brenda Goodman, Keltie Ferris, and Sojourner Truth Parsons, PPOW Gallery, New York City, May 2025