Time Warriors: Poetry Reading x Artist Talk

LECTURE: Anderson Ranch artist talk

TALK: “Tomorrow Talk” at Roswell Museum

Video: Art at Meta: Ranu

VIDEO: Imagining Futures Workshop at ARTogether

Video: Ranu Mukherjee has been very very busy (2020 - Gallery Wendy Norris)

Ranu Mukherjee has been very busy in 2020. She has been painting and studying and painting and listening and painting and writing and painting some more. This series of mixed media paintings is a result of all that work, and it represents the full constellation of Ranu’s concerns: ecology, motherhood, and biodiversity; the human body and labor; modernity, climate change, and sacred cultures; the impoverishment of the imagination and the promise of unimagined utopias; feminist futurism and the strength of listening.

Talk: Converging Crises and the Sanctuary of Art with Ranu Mukherjee and Dr. Azra Akšamija (2020 - Agha Khan Museum)

How does art deepen our collective understanding of the converging global crises we face in the 21st century? Can the arts provide sanctuary for people seeking opportunity in a new country or culture in the age of COVID-19? Explore the interplay between contemporary art, migration, and rapid global change in this talk with two contributors to the Museum's Sanctuary exhibition, Ranu Mukherjee and Dr. Azra Akšamija.

Talk: Catastrophe And Storytelling: Climate Change And Sacred Groves (2020 - Townsend Center for the Humanities , UC Berkeley and Commonwealth Club of California)

In “Climate Change and Sacred Groves,” Townsend Center scholar Sugata Ray meets with artist Ranu Mukherjee to investigate the relationship between the natural world and the sacred realm, especially as it has developed in India over the last several centuries of civilization and the rise of the Anthropocene era.

Episode 00.11 A Crisis of Imagination with guest Ranu Mukherjee

Podcast: Conrad Meyers This New Idea (2020)

When new thoughts are first coming together and words don't yet seem to give clarity to these new formations, how do we express This New Idea?

Episode 00.11 A Crisis of Imagination with guest Ranu Mukherjee, recorded May 18th, 2020 from Vallejo, CA

Video: Extracted: A Trilogy (2016 - Asian Art Museum)

Where is the line between history and mythology? In Extracted, artist Ranu Mukherjee eclipses the boundaries between the two, placing them in the same universe. Commissioned for the Asian Art Museum’s 50th anniversary, this exhibition drew inspiration from California’s Gold Rush, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the ancient text “The Classic of Mountain and Seas,” and the museum’s own collection.

Video: KQED Art School: Collapsing Colonialism (2015 - KQED)

Ranu Mukherjee unpacks the narrative and details behind her newest hybrid film, Home and the World, which examines cultural hybridity, the aftermath of colonialism, and feminist questions. Inspired by a scene from a film by Satyajit Ray, as well as the composition of traditional Indian lithographs, Mukherjee combined these influences with her own visual culture to create a subtle but complex moving image.

Talk: Baat Cheet (2011 - Asian Art Museum)

Artist Ranu Mukherjee gives a five-minute presentation about the impact of Indian culture and art on her creative work.

Video: Contemporary Nomads | Bay Area Now 6 (2011 - YBCA)

Artist Ranu Mukherjee builds expansive video visions of nomadic existence, based on fragments of experiences by strangers. Her work draws from nomadic lifestyles of all sorts, from geopolitical displacement to daily business travel.