RANU MUKHERJEE
MA Painting. Royal College of Art, London
B.F.A., Painting with minor in film, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2023 Time Warriors, Gallery Wendi Norris offsite, NY, NY
2022 Dear Future, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles
2020 Come Undone, Ranu Mukherjee and Sunè Woods, New Viewings (online), Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2020 Ranu Mukherjee has been very busy (online), Gallery Wendi Norris
2018 A Bright Stage, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2017 Shadowtime, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
2017 Shivery Proof, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster Pa.
2016 Phantasmagoria, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2016 Phantasmagoric, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2015 Extracted: a trilogy, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2012 Beta Space: Ranu Mukherjee: Telling Fortunes, San Jose Museum of Art
2013-14 Apparitions, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
2011 Absorption into the Nomadic and Luminous, Frey Norris Contemporary and Modern 2010 Ranu Mukherjee: VideoHole, Noma Gallery, San Francisco
Awards
Residency, Mills College Art Museum, 2023
Residency, 18th Street Arts Center, 2022-2023
Residency and commission with Hope Mohr Dance, 836M 2022
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 2020
Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship, Montalvo Arts Center, 2020, 2022-2023
Facebook Open Arts Commission, 2020
De-Young Artist Studio Program, De Young Museum 2016 Space 118 Residency, Mumbai, 2014
Kala Fellowship Award, Berkeley, 2009
Group Exhibitions
2022
NATASHA, Singapore Biennial
Future Shock,(re)visions of tomorrow, Roswell Museum, NM
A Point Stretched, Views on Time, San Jose Museum of Art
Touch Me, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University
Leaning Out of Windows, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
2021
Under the Waqwaq Tree, Slash Art, San Francisco
Conditions Unforseen, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Artland
Loss and Transience, Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan
La Luz Entre Nosotros/The Light Between Us, Kadist Foundation
The Archive To Come, Telematic, San Francisco
2020
Sanctuary, Agha Khan Museum. Toronto
2019
Karachi Biennale, Karachi Pakistan
Video Art by Indian Contemporary Artists, Mumbai Edition, CSMVS and Godrej India Culture Lab
2017-18
Succession, Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times,
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Sonoma Ca.
Making Migration Visible, ICA , Maine College of Art, Portland, Me. Beyond Transnational, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, Raza Foundation, New Delhi
Our Bones are Made of Starlight, 1a Space, Hong Kong
Soul Mining, Arizona State University Art Museum,
Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles
Sanctuary, Fort Mason Chapel, For-site Foundation 2017
Changjiang International Photo and Video Biennial,
Chongqing Changjiang Museum of Art, Chongquing, China Your Mind, This Moment and The Practice of Attention,
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
2016
Sites of Transformation, Joey Fauerso and Ranu Mukherjee, She Works Flexible, Houston Bring it Home, (re)locating Cultural Legacy through the Body,
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 2015
Momentum, Women, Art and Technology, Dana Galleries, Rutgers University Moving Image, Waterfront Tunnel, New York
Time Travelers, Kala Institute, Berkeley 2014
Partial View; recoding sacred objects, Manresa Gallery San Francisco Initial Public Offering, San Jose Museum of Art
2013
This is not America: Resistance, Protest and Poetics, Arizona State University Art Museum
Vital Signs, New Media Art from the SJMA Collection, Wichita Art Museum
Grain, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Occupations: Art Takes Up Space, Block Gallery, Oakland
Fruitique, a Fallen Fruit project for the Hammer Museum Los Angeles
A Tempting Fate: Inevitability and Scientific Fortune, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland Only a Signal Shown, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Echoes of Eco, International Winter Arts Festival, Sochi Russia 2012
Making Camp, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum Idaho Museum Store Mini Solos, SpaceBi at Asian Art Museum Store
United States of Asian America, 15th annual exhibition, SOMARTS, San Francisco
2011
Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South Asian Diaspora, San Francisco State University
2nd Floor Window Projection Series, Luggage Store, San Francisco
Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series, Hirshhorn Museum, DC
Pangea, art at the forefront of cultural convergence,
Frey Norris Contemporary and Modern
2010
Kala Fellowship Show, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley
Public Art Commissions and Programs
2023
Imagining Forests; workshop series with Hope Mohr Dance,
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
Ensemble for Non-Linear Time, performance with Hope Mohr Dance,
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
2020-22
Tuning Forest, Commissioned by Pembroke, Boston
When The Path Through the Atmosphere is Longer, Permanent Public Commission
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco Arts Commission
Special Edition Textile Print Book Wrap, LRLX Publication 6, Placeless
Imagining Futures; workshop series with Hope Mohr Dance,
ARTogether, Oakland and 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
2018
Beam, Gallery Wendi Norris
Meditations on Trust, Collaboration with Hope Mohr Dance for Sanctuary Salon, Fort Mason Chapel, For-Site Foundation, San Francisco
2017
Now Not Now, Hope Mohr Dance Company commission for Shadowtime, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
2015-16
Chimeric, video commission, Artprojx for Royal College of Psychiatry, London 2014
Spicy Wild, Growing Gritty, Spirited Transmission, Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series
San Francisco Arts Commission
A Procession for the Extracted For-Site Foundation, Nevada City 2013
The Mission: Calle 24, San Francisco Arts Commission Passport 2013
Procession for Future Artifacts, Artists Drawing Club at Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Towards a Creole Procession, Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco
2012
Live score for Telling Fortunes, Mike Maurillo,
San Jose Museum of Art and Zero1 Biennial
2011
Yerba Buena Night Media Lounge, San Franciso
live score for Color of History, Sweating Rocks, Mike Maurillo , Bay Area Now 6 2009
Tender Transmissions, Luggage Store Annex/Tenderloin National Forest,
Wonderland Show, San Francisco and www.tendertransmissions.com
Collections
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
The Avery
Robert D. Bielecki Foundation
De Young Museum
Kadist Foundation
JP Morgan Collection
Oakland Museum of California
San Jose Museum of Art
Various Private
Bibliography
‘Ranu Mukherjee, “Future Shock”, and Approaching Equilibrium through Layers’ Aaron Wilder from the vault, 7/31/22
‘Ensemble for Non-Linear Time at 836M Gallery comes to a close with two performances’ Broadway World, 4/13/22
‘Fusing Art and Movement in Ensemble for Non-Linear Time’, SF Classical Voice, 4/18/22
Shadowtime, Ranu Mukherjee, monograph, Gallery Wendi Norris 2021
Ranu Mukherjee; Raíces Diagonales, Revista de la Universidad de México 2019
’Critics Picks, 0rphan Drift at Telematic’, Art Forum, Spring 2019
‘See Migration, it’s ‘Traces, Tracks and Pathways’ Portland Press Herald 12/8/18
‘An Uncertain Approach to Political Art at Di Rosa’ San Francisco Chronicle 8/28/18
‘A Lesson in the Importance of Being Earnest’ KQED Arts 6/28/2018
‘Sanctuary’, Surface Design Journal, Summer 2018
Extracted: A Trilogy by Ranu Mukherjee,
Video produced by Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2017
‘ASU Art Museum’s ‘Soul Mining’ offers insight into forced migration’
The State Press, 10/19/2017
‘Women to Watch’ KQED Arts, 7/6/2016
‘Faculty Spotlight: Ranu Mukherjee, Fine Arts’, California College of the Arts, 5/26/16
‘All that Glitters is Gold: Ranu Mukherjee’s Phantasmagoric’, LACMA Unframed, 5/2/16
‘Re-Opening: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery’, Art Practical, 3/17/16
‘Asunder No More, SFAC Gallery Expands and Reopens in Civic Center’
KQED Arts, 1/21/16
‘Asian Art Museum Celebrates South Asia as Part of Golden Jubilee’ , India West, 2/1/16
‘”Extracted”: Indian diaspora artist Ranu Mukherjee at the Asian Art Museum’,
Art Radar 1/4/16
’Ranu Mukherjee Unearths Buried Histories in ‘Extracted’ Trilogy’, KQED Arts 12/2/15
Collapsing Colonialism with Ranu Mukherjee, video KQED Art School, 2015
‘Seeing Time-Time Traveler’, Art Practical, 3/19/15
‘The Bewitching Geometry of the Moving Image Art Fair’. Hyperallergic, 3/6/2015
‘The Talismanic Tetrakaidecahedron #8: Ranu Mukherjee (Quintan Ana Wikswo)’,
Degenerate Art Stream, 5/15/14
Catalogue: Digital Art and Feminism, A Surreal Relationship, Anne Swartz,
Momentum, Women Art and Technology, Dana Women Artist Series,
Rutgers University, ed. Connie Tell, Institute for Women and Art, 2013
Ranu Mukherjee, In the Make’ http://inthemake.com/ranu-mukherjee-2/, 9/13
‘Preview Images from “GRAIN”, a four woman show at Gallery Espace’,
Blouin- ArtInfo 5/5/13
‘Grain at Gallery Espace’, First City, New Delhi, 5/13-
‘Artist Investigates 21st Century Nomads’, Spartan Daily, San Jose State, 9/20/12
‘Artist’s videos evoke dreamy paintings’, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/6/12
‘Interview with Exhibiting Artist Ranu Mukherjee’, SOMArts, 5/23/12
M for Metabolism, Open Wide- the great digestive system, Randy Lee Cutler 2012
Ranu Mukherjee: Contemporary Nomads, videoYBCA Bay Area Now 6, 2011
‘September Art Reviews’, SF Weekly , 8/19/11
‘Bay Area Now 6’, Art Practical , , 8/17/11
‘Absorption into the Nomadic and Luminous’, California Home and Design, 7/30/11
‘Absorption into the Nomadic and Luminous’, Art Practical, 6/17/11
‘Nomadic and Luminous: Ranu Mukherjee at Frey Norris’,Daily Serving, 6/8/11
Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South Asian Diaspora, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco State University, 2010
Publications
Essay for Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, ed. Sharon Louden
(forthcoming)
Listening Nearby, Why are they so afraid of the lotus? Trinh T. Minh-ha On Our Mind, Wattis Institute, 2021
A completely matter of fact acceptance of the agency of non-human beings of many kinds, an artist project for Art Journal, Fall Issue, 2019
Connective Tissue, a feature for Art Practical, Dec, 2017 Joan Jonas on Our Mind, Wattis Institute, 2014-15
0(rphan)d(rift>), 2012 edition, Cabinet Gallery London
A Set of Reflections on the Culture of Public School Touring in San Francisco,
written in Limbo
Social Practice, an annual report, California College of the Arts
2011
A Nomadic Archive, New Guide to the Universe, Practice&Practice
Top ten reasons why we are living in the future, Imprint 93; The Lists curated by Liz Glass A collection of reminders, After Words, text on voice, Practice & Practice Catalogue: Tender Transmissions, Wonderland USA, Fung Collaboratives
2007
Black Hole, Satellite Magazine, issue 2, Independent School of Art
Speaking Engagements
2022
Artist Talk, Anderson Ranch, Aspen Co.
Dear Future, with plant biologist Stacey Harmer, moderated by artist Olivia Mole,
18th Street Arts Center Propeller Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca.
Artist talk and panel, South Asian Literature and Arts Festival, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Ca.
Tomorrow Talks with Nicole Anona Banowetz and Aaron Wilder, Roswell Museum, NM
2021
Parsons School of Design Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Keynote Speaker, University of British Columbia, MFA Graduate Symposium
Mother Always Has a Mother- Ranu Mukherjee and Hong-An Truong,
moderated by Kim Nguyen, NSU Singapore
Living Room Light Exchange: Carlos James Luna and Ranu Mukherjee
Lunch and Learn, Ranu Mukherjee Studio, 836M, San Francisco
Visiting Artist Talk, Urban High School, San Francisco
2020
In Conversation with Sugata Ray; Catastrophe and Storytelling: Climate Change And
Sacred Groves, Townsend Center for the Humanities and The Commonwealth Club
Living Room Light Exchange: Carlos James Luna and Ranu Mukherjee
Re:Imagine, Global Conversations Series: Converging Crises and the Sanctuary of Art with Ranu Mukherjee and Dr. Azra Akšamija, Agha Khan Museum, Toronto
Workshop: Ensemble for Non-Linear Time, Computational Media Arts and Cultures, Duke University
2019
Artists Talk: A Completely Matter of Fact Acceptance of the Agency of
Non-Human Be ings of Many Kinds, Thompson Gallery, San Jose State University
Panel: Alpha Girls:Women in Leadership, San Jose Museum of Art
Panel: Art and Transcultural Negotiation, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Podcast: Beyond the Studio
Artist Panel, Water, Fire ,Earth, McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco
Artist talk, Maine College of Art and Design, Portland, Maine 2018
Artists Talk, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster
2017
In Conversation with Saisha Grayson, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
Conversation: Surrealism and It's Legacy with Jodi Roberts and Jonathan Parker,
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
Artists talk: ’Making and Unmaking' Tarble Art Center, Southern Illinois University
2016
Trilogy Complete, Asian Art Museum San Francisco
Food for Thought, lunchtime lecture series, San Francisco Art Institute
stARTup pilot, ACT Strand Theatre, San Francisco
Recent work, Faculty of Color research Alliance, California College of the Arts
Extracted Unearthed, Asian Art Museum San Francisco
2015
Panel discussion, Art, Technology and Feminism, Dana Library, Douglass College,
Rutgers Gallery
Conversation, Seeing Time, Time Travelers, with Desiree Holman and Freddy Chandra, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley
2014
An Artist Who Cannot Speak English is No Artist, Asian Contemporary Art Week,
Wattis Institute Visiting Artist
Lecture Series, Sonoma State College
Interview with Art Speak for Women’s History Month, Bay Area Youth for Mutiny Radio 2012
Visiting Artist, Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, Art History Department
UC Berke ley
Visiting Artist, Topophilia, MFA Program, California College of the Arts
2011
Epic Everyday, Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute
Baat Cheet, Asian Art Museum San Francisco
Visiting Artist, Painting to Video, MFA Program, California College of the Arts
Discover@Dosa, San Francisco
Art Table , Frey Norris Contemporary and Modern
Bay Area Now 6 Public Programs organized by Julio Cesar Morales
2010 Kala Fellowship Talk, Kala Art Institute
2008 Panelist, Ilovetheory,don’tyou, Graduate Painting, California College of the Arts
Community
2020-2023
AICAD BIPOC Leadership Institute
Artist/Scholar, Acquisitions Committee, San Jose Museum of Art
Leaning Out of Windows, Artists in Collaboration with Physicists
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and TRIUMF Canada
2019
Participant, Trinh T Minh-ha Research Seminar, Wattis Institute
2016
Invitational Salon and word coining, Bureau for Linguistically Reality 2015 Participant, Joan Jonas Research Seminar, Wattis Institute
Program Organizer with Jackie Francis: Epilogue to yogaflogogo, Olivia Mole,
Wattis In stitute
Participant, “Visibility” creative workshop, SFMOMA Public Dialogues
2014 Juror, Kala Fellowship Award, Kala Institute, Berkeley, Ca.
2014-16 VP Programs, Lakeshore PTA, Lakeshore Elementary School
2013 Nominating Committee Member, San Francisco Artist Award, Gallery Wendi Norris 2012
Participant, Artists and Institutions: Common Ground Salon, Mak Center, Los Angeles
Ju ror, Artists in Residence program, Film and Video, Headlands Center for the Arts
2011- 12: Chair of Visiting Artist Program, Pacific Primary
1999-2003
Member- artistic, educational and ecological initiatives- Haiti Support Group, London
Academic
2022- present Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2020- PRESENT Chair of Film, California College of the Arts San Francisco
2018-19 Interim Chair, Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2012-2022 Associate Professor, Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
'2013-2015 Assistant Chair MFA Program, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2004-2012 Adjunct Professor, Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, SF
2011-12 Visiting Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1994-2002 Lecturer in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London
1998-2002 Lecturer in Fine Art ,University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire