Education
MA in Painting. Royal College of Art, London
BFA in 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
San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award, 2024
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
2024
P L A C E; Reckonings by Asian American Artists | ICA San Jose
Multiple Voices, Gallery Wendi Norris I San Francisco
Refuge, Queen Alexandra’s House I London
2023
Art+Process+Ideas, Mills College Art Museum | Oakland, CA
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
Public 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
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
‘Digital Art and Feminism, A Surreal Relationship’, catalogue, Anne Swartz, 2015
‘Momentum, Women Art and Technology’, Dana Women Artist Series, 2015
‘The Talismanic Tetrakaidecahedron #8: Ranu Mukherjee (Quintan Ana Wikswo)’, Degenerate Art Stream, 5/15/14
Rutgers University, ed. Connie Tell, Institute for Women and Art, 2013
‘Ranu Mukherjee, In the Make’ http://inthemake.com/ranu-mukherjee-2/, 9/2013
‘Preview Images from “GRAIN”, a four woman show at Gallery Espace’, Blouin- ArtInfo, 5/5/13
‘Grain at Gallery Espace’, First City, New Delhi, 5/2013
‘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’, video, YBCA Bay Area Now 6, 2011
‘September Art Reviews’, SF Weekly, 8/19/11
‘Bay Area Now 6’, Art Practical, Leigh Markopoulos, 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
EDUCATION
1993 M.F.A. Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1988 B.F.A. Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
SELECT SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Alice Rahon and Ranu Mukherjee; Time Warriors, Gallery Wendi Norris | New York, NY
2022 Dear Future, 18th Street Arts Center | Los Angeles, CA
2022 Ensemble for Non-Linear Time, 836M | San Francisco, CA
2020 Come Undone, Ranu Mukherjee and Sunè Woods, New Viewings, Galerie Barbara Thumm | Berlin, Germany
2020 Ranu Mukherjee has been very busy (online), Gallery Wendi Norris
2019 If AI were Cephalopod, 0rphan drift @ Telematic | San Francisco
2018 A Bright Stage, De Young Museum | San Francisco, Ca.
2017 Shadowtime, Gallery Wendi Norris | San Francisco, Ca.
Shivery Proof, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design | Lancaster Pa.
2016-2017 Phantasmagoria, Tarble Arts Center | Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Unruly City, Dold Projects | Sankt Georgen im Schwarzweld, Germany
2015-16 Extracted: a trilogy, Asian Art Museum |San Francisco, Ca.
2012 Ranu Mukherjee: Telling Fortunes, San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, Ca.
2013-14 Apparitions, Gallery Wendi Norris | San Francisco, Ca.
2011 Absorption into the Nomadic and Luminous,
Frey Norris Contemporary and Modern | San Francisco, Ca.
2010 Ranu Mukherjee: VideoHole, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
2003 Doublewalker, 0rphan drift @ Helen Pitt Gallery | Vancouver, BC
2000 Technical Support, 0rphan drift @ Artspeak Gallery | Vancouver, BC
2000 Carrier, 0rphan drift @ KustnernesHus | Oslo, Norway
1999 Syzygy, 0rphan drift @, Beaconsfield Arts | London, England
1995 0(rphan)d(rift>), Cabinet Gallery | London
1994 Ariadne’s Gone Virtual, 0rphan drift @ Underwood Street Gallery | London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010-2023
2024 P L A C E; Reckonings by Asian American Artists | ICA San Jose
Multiple Voices, Gallery Wendi Norris I San Francisco
Refuge, Queen Alexandra’s House I London
2023 Art+Process+Ideas, Mills College Art Museum | Oakland, CA
2022 Natasha, Singapore Biennial | Singapore
2022 A Point Stretched; Views on Time, San Jose Museum of Art I San Jose, CA
Future Shock, (Re)visions of Tomorrow, Roswell Museum | Roswell, NM
2021 The Armory Show, Javits Center | New York, NY
2021 Seeing Past the Future, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center | Artland
2021 Loss and Transience, Hong-Gah Museum | Taipei, Taiwan
2021 La Luz Entre Nosotros/The Light Between Us, Kadist Foundation | San Francisco
2021 The Archive to Come, Telematic | San Francisco, CA
2020 Sanctuary, Agha Khan Museum | Toronto, Canada
2019 Karachi Biennale | Karachi, Pakistan
2019 Video Art by Indian Contemporary Artists, Mumbai Edition,
CSMVS Museum and Godrej India Culture Lab | Mumbai, India
2019 Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, De La Warr Pavilion | UK
Sanctuary, Smart Museum, Chicago, Asia Society Museum | NY
Speculative Frictions, PDX Contemporary I Portland, OR
2018 Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times, Part 2- commissioned projects by Victor Cartagena, Ranu Mukherjee, and Lava Thomas, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art | Sonoma, CA.
Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Nottingham Contemporary | UK
Making Migration Visible; Traces, Tracks and Pathways, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art and Design | Portland, Maine
Beyond Transnational, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum | Mumbai, Raza Foundation | New Delhi
Soul Mining, Vincent Price Museum | Los Angeles, CA.
Our Bones are Made of Starlight, 1a Space | Hong Kong
2017 Soul Mining, Arizona State University Art Museum | Tempe, Az.
Sanctuary, Fort Mason Chapel | For-site Foundation
0rphan drift @, eat code and die, Lomex gallery, New York, NY
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 Matter Fictions, Berardo Museum | Lisbon, Portugal
Sites of Transformation, (two-person show with Joey Fauerso),
She Works Flexible | Houston, Tx
0rphan drift @, Mutiny in Heaven, First Continents | Baltimore, Md
Bring it Home, (re)locating Cultural Legacy through the Body,
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery | San Francisco, Ca.
2015 Momentum; Women, Art and Technology, Mary H. Dana Galleries,
Rutgers University | Piscataway, NJ
Moving Image, Waterfront Tunnel | New York, NY
Group Hang, Gallery Wendi Norris | San Francisco, Ca.
Time Travelers, Kala Institute | Berkeley, Ca.
Alternative 23 visitation | IMT Gallery, London
2014 Partial View; recoding sacred objects | Manresa Gallery San Francisco
New Acquisitions, Oakland Museum of California | Oakland, Ca.
Initial Public Offering, San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, Ca.
Grotto Heavens, CAC Gallery | Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 This is not America: Resistance, Protest and Poetics,
Arizona State University Art Museum | Tempe, Az.
Vital Signs, New Media Art from the SJMA Collection
Wichita Art Museum | Wichita, Kansas
Grain, Gallery Espace | New Delhi, India
Occupations: Art Takes Up Space | Block Gallery, Oakland
Fruitique, a Fallen Fruit project for the Hammer Museum | Los Angeles Ca,
A Tempting Fate: Inevitability and Scientific Fortune,
Aggregate Space Gallery | Oakland
Only a Signal Shown, Southern Exposure | San Francisco
Death of Rave | CTM Berlin (0rphan drift)
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, SOMArts | San Francisco, Ca.
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 | San Francisco, CA,
2nd Floor Window ProjectionSeries, Luggage Store | San Francisco
Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series,
Hirshhorn Museum | Washington DC
Pangea, art at the forefront of cultural convergence,
Frey Norris Contemporary and Modern | San Francisco
2010 Kala Fellowship Show, Kala Art Institute Gallery | Berkeley, CA.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award
2023 Mills College Art Museum, Art+Process+Ideas Residency
2022 18th Street Arts Center Residency
2022 836M Residency
2020-24 Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship, Montalvo Arts Center
2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2020 Facebook OpenArts Residency
2016 de Young Artist Studio Program, de Young Museum
2015 Space 118, Mumbai Residency
2012 Curriculum Development Grant, California College of the Arts
2010 Kala Fellowship Award and Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
2009 Faculty Development and Travel Grant, California College of the Arts
2004 Career Advancement Certificate Program Grant, Bay Area Video Coalition
2003 Travel and Materials Grant, British Council and Norwegian Arts Council
2003 Exhibition Grant, Arts Council of Canada
2000 Noordraks Prize, KunstnernesHus, Oslo, Norway
2000 Travel Grant, British Council, England
1999 Combined Media Grant, Arts Council of England
1999 Live Arts Production Funding, London Arts Board, London
1992 Anstruther Tuition Scholarship, Royal College of Art, London
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Asian Art Museum I San Francisco, CA
Escalette Permanent Art Collection of Chapman University I Orange, CA
de Young Museum I San Francisco, CA
Facebook Headquarters I Menlo Park, CA
Fidelity Investments I Boston, MA
JPMorgan Chase Collection I New York, NY
KADIST I San Francisco, CA and Paris, France
Oakland Museum of California I Oakland, CA
Robert D. Bielecki Foundation I New York, NY
San Francisco Arts Commission I San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art I San Jose, CA
REPRESENTATION
Gallery Wendi Norris | San Francisco
ONGOING COLLABORATIONS
projects, workshops and performances with choreographer Hope Mohr:
2023-4 Prototype for an Aftermath
Moody Center for the Arts,Rice University | Houston, Tx
Montalvo Center for the Arts I Saratoga Ca
Float the Mark; A Mine in a Forest
Mills College Art Museum | Oakland Ca
2020-23 Ensemble for Non-Linear Time – Imagining Futures
San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose Ca
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica | Ca
836M | San Francisco Ca
ARTogether | Oakland
2018-2019 Succession, Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art | Sonoma Ca
Meditation on Trust, Fort Mason Chapel, For-Site Foundation | San Francisco
2017 Now Not Now, Gallery Wendi Norris | San Francisco
Co-founder and co-channeler -media artist/avatar 0rphan drift 1994- present
2012 0(rphan)d(rift>), 2012 edition, published by Cabinet Gallery London
2004 0(rphan)d(rift>), 2005 edition, published by Cabinet Gallery, London
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2023-24 Relief Lanterns, Mercy Housing | San Francisco
2022 Tuning Forest, Pembroke | Boston, MA
2021 When the Path Through the Atmosphere is Longer;
San Francisco International Airport | San Francisco Art Commission
2020-21 When Change Moves Like the Forest Speaks, Facebook AIR | Menlo Park, CA 2018
Beam, Gallery Wendi Norris HQ | San Francisco, CA
2016 Phantasmagoric, 3-channel video | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2015 Chimeric, video, Artprojx and The Royal College of Psychiatry | London
2014 Spicy Wild, Growing Gritty, Spirited Transmission, Art on Market | San Francisco
OTHER MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATIONS
2014 A Procession for the Extracted with David Allan Burns,
For-Site Foundation | Nevada City, Ca.
The Mission: Calle 24, Passport | San Francisco Arts Commission
2013 Procession for Future Artifacts,Artists Drawing Club, Asian Art Museum
Towards a Creole Procession, Luggage Store Annex | San Francisco, Ca.
2012 Live score and Listening Park with Mike Maurillo,
San Jose Museum of Art and Zero1 Biennial | San Jose, Ca.
2011 Live score for Color of History , Bay Area Now 6
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | San Francisco, Ca.
2009 Tender Transmissions, Luggage Store Annex/Tenderloin National Forest,
Wonderland Show | San Francisco and www.tendertransmissions.com
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Featured guest, The Side Woo Podcast
In Mills College Art Museum Show, Technology Becomes an Active Collaborator
Alexander Ullman, KQED Arts- the Do list
2022 From the Vault: Ranu Mukherjee, “Future Shock”
and Approaching Equilibrium through layers, Aaron Wilder, Roswell Daily Record
‘Ensemble for Non-Linear Time at 836M Gallery comes to a close with two
performances’ Broadway World
‘Fusing Art and Movement in Ensemble for Non-Linear Time’, SF Classical Voice
2021 Ranu Mukherjee: Shadowtime, monograph, Gallery Wendi Norris
Ranu Mukherjee: Raíces Diagonales, Carolina Magis Weinerg
Revista de la Universidad de México, April 2021, Decolonization Issue
2020 Ranu Mukherjee has been very busy, essay by Timothy Don
2019 Interview/featured artist, Beyond the Studio Podcast
Critics Picks, 0rphan Drift at Telematic, Art Forum
2018 Catalogue, Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Nottingham Contemporary
2017 Catalogue, Sanctuary, For-site Foundation, San Francisco, Ca.
ASU Art Museum’s ‘Soul Mining’ offers insight into historic forced
migration, The State Press, Arizona State University
Video: Extracted: A Trilogy by Ranu Mukherjee, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Catalogue, Matter Fictions, ed. Margarita Mendes, Berardo Museum, Lisbon
7/6/2016 Feature, Women to Watch, KQED Arts
5/26/16 Faculty Spotlight: Ranu Mukherjee, Fine Arts, California College of the Arts
5/2/16 All that Glitters is Gold:Ranu Mukherjee’s Phantasmagoric,
Julie Romain for LACMA Unframed
3/17/16 Re-Opening:San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Art Practical
1/21/16 Asunder No More, SFAC Gallery Expands and Reopens in Civic Center,KQED Arts
2/1/16 Asian Art Museum Celebrates South Asia as Part of Golden Jubilee,
India West
1/4/16 Extracted: Indian diaspora artist Ranu Mukherjee at the Asian Art
Museum, Art Radar
12/2/15 Ranu Mukherjee Unearths Buried Histories in ‘Extracted Trilogy’, KQED Arts
3/19/15 Seeing Time-Time Traveler, Art Practical
3/6/2015 The Bewitching Geometry of the Moving Image Art Fair, Hyperallergic
2015 Video: Collapsing Colonialism with Ranu Mukherjee, KQED Art School
2014 Catalogue: Digital Art and Feminism, A Surreal Relationship, Anne Swartz,
Momentum, WomenArt and Technology, Dana Women Artist Series,
Rutgers University, ed. Connie Tell, Institute for Women and Art
5/15/14 The Talismanic Tetrakaidecahedron #8: Ranu Mukherjee (Quintan
Ana Wiskwo)’, Degenerate Art Stream
9/13 Ranu Mukherjee, In the Make , Klea McKenna and Nikki Grattan
2013 M for Metabolism, Open Wide- the great digestive system, Randy Lee Cutler
5/5/13 Preview Images from “GRAIN”, a four woman show at
Gallery Espace’, BlouinArtInfo
5/13 Grain at Gallery Espace, First City, New Delhi
9/20/12 Artist Investigates 21st Century Nomads, Spartan Daily, San Jose State
9/6/12 Artist’s videos evoke dreamy paintings, San Francisco Chronicle
5/23/12 Interview with Exhibiting Artist Ranu Mukherjee, SOMArts
2011 Catalogue; Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South
Asian Diaspora, Santhi Kavuri Bauer, San Francisco State University
8/19/11 September Art Reviews, SF Weekly
8/17/11 Bay Area Now 6, LeighMarkopoulosforArt Practical
2011 Video: Ranu Mukherjee: Contemporary Nomads, YBCA Bay Area Now 6
0rphan drift:
2010 Catalogue: Tender Transmissions , Wonderland USA, Fung Collaboratives
2008 Renegade Academia, Simon Reynolds, ‘SOUND UNBOUND’ ed. Paul
Miller, MIT Press
2001 Seeing the Beat: Retinal Intensities in Electronic Music Videos,
Simon Reynolds, Catalogue Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
2000 The Underworld at Kunstnernes Hus, Christian Refsum, BilledKunst, nr.3
Syzygy at Beaconsfield Arts, Jim Flint, Mute Magazine Issue 13
1999 Interview, UBC Radio, Vancouver, BC
1998 Martin, Pauline Van Mourik Broekman, Mute Magazine (0rphan drift)
1997 Anteomega, Wave Magazine, Belgium (0rphan drift)
1995 Beat Regeneration, Jim McClellan, Observer Life Magazine (0rphan drift)
Sex, Drugs and Remote Control, Dave Beech,
The New German Critique number 25 (0rphan drift)
Serotonin Overkill, Tony Marcus, ID Magazine (0rphan drift)
Interview, Fringeware Review Magazine (0rphan drift)
1994 Interview with Michael Archer, Audio Arts Magazine (0rphan drift)
ARTISTS TALKS
2024 CSU Monterey Bay
lunch and learn, Fidelity Investments
2023 In conversation with Chitra Ganesh, GWN NY
Northeastern University
Mills College Art Museum
Portland State University
Urban High School
2022 Anderson Ranch
2021 Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
2020 Ranu Mukherjee and Hong-An Truong,
moderated by Kim Nguyen, NSU Singapore
Living Room Light Exchange: Carlos James Luna and Ranu Mukherjee
Re:Imagine, Global Conversations Series:
Converging Crises and the Sanctuaryof Art with
Ranu Mukherjee and Dr. Azra Akšamija, Agha Khan Museum, Toronto
In Conversation with Sugata Ray;
Catastrophe And Storytelling: Climate ChangeAnd Sacred Groves, Townsend Center
for the Humanities , UC Berkeley and Commonwealth Club of California
Podcast: This New Idea with Conrad Meyers
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Low Residency MFA
In person Workshop: Ensemble for Non-Linear Time,
Computational Media Arts and Cultures, Duke University
2019 Artists panel, Art and Transcultural Negotation,
Asian Art Museum San Francisco
Artists talk, A Completely matter of fact acceptance of the agency of non-human
beings of many kinds , Thompson Gallery Lecture Series, San Jose State University
2018 Water, Fire, Earth, Air- Mcevoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
In Conversation with Judy Dater, Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
ICA, Maine College of Art and Design, Portland Me.
2017 Writing for the Moving Image with Pratibha Parmar,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
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
Making and Unmaking, artists talk, Tarble Art Center,
Southern Illinois University Art Department, Charleston, Illinois
2016 Trilogy Complete, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Ca.
Artists Talk, Food For Thought Series with Lindsey White, San Francisco
Art Institute, San Francisco, Ca.
Artists presentation, Asian Artists Network stARTup pilot,
ACT Strand Theatre, San Francisco, Ca.
Recent work, Faculty of Color research Alliance,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Ca.
Extracted Unearthed, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Ca.
2015 Art, Technology and Feminism panel discussion,
Dana Library, Douglass College, Rutgers Gallery
Conversation, with Desiree Holman and Freddy Chandra,
Seeing Time, Time Travelers, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, Ca.
2014 Artists presentation, An Artist Who Cannot Speak English is No Artist,
Asian Contemporary Art Week, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Ca.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Sonoma State College, Sonoma, Ca.
Radio Interview , Women’s History Month, Artspeak,
Bay AreaYouth programming on Mutiny Radio, San Francisco, Ca.
2012 Visiting Artist Talk, Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art
with Atreyee Gupta, Department of Art History, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, Ca.
Visiting Artist Talk, Topophilia with Lynn Kirby, Graduate Fine Art,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Ca.
2011 Epic Everyday, Artists Talk, Graduate Lecture Series,
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Ca.
Baat Cheet, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Ca.
Visiting Artist Talk, Painting to Video with Kim Anno, Graduate Fine Art,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Ca.
Featured Artist, Discover@Dosa, San Francisco, Ca.
Exhibition walkthrough, Art Table , Frey Norris Contemporary and Modern,
Visiting Artist Talk, Public Speech with Sanjit Sethi,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Ca.
2010 Kala Fellowship Talk, Kala Art Institute, San Francisco, Ca.
2008 Panelist, Ilovetheory,don’tyou, Graduate Painting,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Ca.
2005 Presentation, Mimesis and Fiction, Society for Photographic Education
West Annual Conference, San Jose State University, San Jose, Ca.
2001 Kombinayzon, An Introduction to Haitian Art and screening of
‘Lineaments of the Lwa’ (Gordon, Mukherjee, Roberts) Caribbean History Month,
Goldsmiths College, London and October Gallery, London
2000 ‘PAZ’ (aerenko, Mukherjee and Roberts) screening,
International Semiotics Conference, University of Urbino
1996 Performance Lecture (0rphan drift), Thinking Alien, Leeds University
1995 Performance Lecture (0rphan drift), Technophobia, Institute of
Contemporary Art, London
Performance Lecture (0rphan drift), Virtual Futures 2, University of
Warwick
Performance Lecture (0rphan drift), Embodied Knowledges, Goldsmiths
College, London
Performance Lecture (0rphan drift),Out of Control lecture series, Royal
College of Art, London
1993-1995 Visiting Artist, BFA, Middlesex University, London. England
1994-1995 Visiting Lecturer, Art History, Winchester College of Art, Winchester
1993-1994 Visiting Artist, B.F.A., Canterbury College of Art, Canterbury, England
1994 Visiting Lecturer, Media/Cultural Studies, Southhampton Institute,
Southhampton. England
PUBLICATIONS
2019 A Completely Matter-of-Fact Acceptance of the agency of non-human beings of many
kinds, artists project, Art Journal, Fall 2019
Monkey Fist, Object Lessons Feature, Art Journal, Fall 2019
2018 Introduction, Procession for the Extracted, For-site Foundation
2017 Connective Tissue, Issue 9.1, Public Sense, Art Practical
Joan Jonas on Our Mind, Wattis Institute
2012 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
2010 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
2007 Liquid Lattice,Frozen Tears 3, orphan drift and Cybernetic Culture Research
Unit, ed. John Russell, Artice Press
Black Hole, Satellite Magazine, issue 2, Independent School of Art
1999 Zone Codes , 0rphand drift, i/o/d, Underground Publications On-line, Fringeware Review
and Art Throb
1995 FormZ, Mute Magazine, issue 1
1994 YouVgen, Mute Magazine, Pilot issue
COMMUNITY WORK
current Board of Directors, San Jose Museum of Art
Board of Directors, Southern Exposure
2022-2024 Board of Directors, Bridge Live Arts
2019-2023 Acquisitions Committee, San Jose Museum of Art
2023 Imagining forests workshop, Big Island, Hawaii
Landscape Arch. MFA , Surface Design and UC Berkeley
2019 Trinh T. Minh-ha Study Group, Wattis Institute
2018 Juror, Landscape Arch. MFA, Surface Design and UC Berkeley
2017 Thesis Advisor to Gilda Posada, Visual and Critical Studies, California
College of the Arts, San Francisco
Juror, Impact Awards, Center for Art and Public Life, California College for
the Arts, San Francisco, Ca.
2016 Organizer and writer with Jackie Francis and Olivia Mole,
Yogaflogogo, an epilogue by Olivia Mole, for
Joan Jonas On Our Mind, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Ca.
2015 Science Fiction Salon, Bureau for Linguistical Reality, San Francisco
2013 Juror, Fellowship Program, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, Ca.
2012 Juror, Residency Program-Film and Video Category,