Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a double recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting/1996 and 2021, and received an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum. She was a resident artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was awarded a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in 2011. Her work has been featured throughout the New York/NYC region in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, at BRIC/Project Room and at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. In 2019 she exhibited in her first international show at Wild Palms in Dusseldorf, Germany. An encore international group show took place in Paris at the Brigitte Mulholland Galerie, summer 2024. Other selected group shows include: The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Hollis Taggart Gallery in Southport, CT; the Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation, NYC and recently at Venus Over Manhattan, NYC. In summer 2024 her work was featured in two solo ventures at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, VA and at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in East Hampton, NY. She has been selected by guest co^curator, artist Jeffrey Gibson to participate in the 200th anniversary exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Fall/2024. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Artforum. She is represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and works in New York.