Ranu Mukherjee Explained

Ranu Mukherjee
Nationality:American
Occupation:Artist; Film Program Chair at the California College of Arts, San Francisco
Known For:Hybrid art, painting, film, installation, media art, arts educator.

Ranu Mukherjee (born 1966) is a multi-disciplinary American contemporary artist of Indian and European descent based in San Francisco, California.[1]

Mukherjee's practice includes painting, installation, sculpture, video art, performance, hybrid films, works on paper, and collaborative projects. Her work focuses on processes of creolization, the figure of the nomad, and speculative narratives. Mukherjee’s work also generally refers to embodiment, ecology, science fiction, and the unknown to explore the narrative excess and material conditions brought on by global capitalism.

Education

Ranu Mukherjee received her BFA in Painting and Film from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, in 1988, and her MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1993.[2]

Art career

Best known for creating strongly colored large scale installations that combine mediums such as print, paint, and drawings,[3] her work has focus on topics such as colonialism, feminism, and ecology.[4] [5]

Mukherjee has stated that most of her work comes from a neo-futurist perspective as she aims to generate creative thinking among her audience. She also penned the term "hybrid film" as a label for her animated art that combines painted, photographic, and digital work into unique pieces.

Ranu Mukherjee co-founded 0rphan Drift, a collaborative artist and avatar, in London in 1994. For a decade, 0rpahn Drift collaborated with numerous people on mostly site-specific works. As an artistic entity, 0rphan Drift is known for immersive and visually complex works which use the sample and the remix extensively. It produced video and AV performance, collage, text and print works, and published the cyberpunk novel 0(rphan).[6]

In 2006, Ranu Mukherjee and fellow co-founder Maggie Roberts restarted 0rphan Drift as a duo. They believed 0rphan Drift’s approach could be applied to the new era of social media, Artificial Intelligence and virtual reality. In its latest manifestation, 0rphan Drift considers AI through the octopus – as a distributed, many-minded consciousness.[7]

Mukherjee worked solely with the artist collaborative between 1994 and 2005.[8]

After earning her degrees in art, she began teaching at Goldsmiths College in London in 1994. In 2002 She moved to San Francisco, California, where she teaches at California College of the Arts.[9] [10]

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee Dear Future . 18th Street . 29 April 2023.
  2. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee Biography . San Jose Museum of Art . 29 April 2023.
  3. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee. 2021-03-19. Maine College of Art.
  4. News: Waraich. Sonia. January 22, 2016. Asian Art Museum celebrates South Asia as Part of Golden Jubilee. India West. San Leandro, Calif: India West.
  5. Web site: Color of History, Sweating Rocks. 2021-03-19. kadist.org.
  6. Web site: 0rphan Drift . www.merliquify.com . 29 April 2023.
  7. Web site: Carey-Kent . Paul . 0RPHAN DRIFT: CAN OCTOPUSES CHANGE OUR WORLD? . www.seismamag.com . 29 April 2023.
  8. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee Biography . San Jose Museum of Art . 29 April 2023.
  9. Web site: People Finder - California College of the Arts - Portal. 2021-03-18. portal.cca.edu.
  10. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee April 1 – 29, 2020. 2021-03-19. 18th Street Arts Center. en-US.
  11. Web site: Ranu Mudherjee: A Bright Stage . San Francisco Bay Times . 12 July 2018.
  12. Web site: 2018-05-08. Ranu Mukherjee: A Bright Stage. 2021-03-19. de Young. en.
  13. Web site: December 12, 2017. 'Shivery Proof': The art of Ranu Mukherjee. 2021-03-19. Pennsylvania College of Art & Design PCA&D. en.
  14. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee Shadowtime. 2021-03-19. Gallery Wendi Norris San Francisco. en-US.
  15. Web site: Eastern Illinois University :: Tarble Arts Center - Archived Exhibitions. 2021-03-19. www.eiu.edu.
  16. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee Unearths Buried Histories in 'Extracted' Trilogy . KQED . en-us.
  17. Web site: Extracted: A Trilogy by Ranu Mukherjee Exhibitions Asian Art Museum. 2021-03-19. Exhibitions. en-US.
  18. Web site: Romain. Julie. May 2, 2016. All that Glitters Is Gold: Ranu Mukherjee's Phantasmagoric Unframed. 2021-03-19. unframed.lacma.org.
  19. Web site: 2012-04-24. Exhibitions + Collection. 2021-03-19. San José Museum of Art. en.
  20. Web site: Giles. Gretchen. June 28, 2018. Part Two of di Rosa's 'Be Not Still' a Lesson in the Importance of Being Earnest. 2021-03-19. KQED. en-us.
  21. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee CV . www.ranumukherjee.com . 30 April 2023.
  22. Web site: San José Museum of Art. 2021-06-05. San José Museum of Art. en.
  23. Web site: Asian Art Museum Online Collection. 2021-03-19. searchcollection.asianart.org.
  24. Web site: Asian Art Museum Online Collection. 2021-03-19. searchcollection.asianart.org.
  25. Web site: Building Bridges . Dance Magazine . en . 10 September 2020.
  26. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee In The Make Studio visits with West Coast artists . inthemake.com.
  27. Web site: Ranu Mukherjee . Gallery Wendi Norris San Francisco.

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