Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting/1996 and 2021; an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum, and was granted artist residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was awarded a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in 2011. Her work has been featured throughout the New York/NYC region in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, a solo presentation 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, followed by a second internaional group show in Paris at Brigitte Mulholland Galerie, summer 2024. Other selected group shows include Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Hollis Taggart Gallery in Southport, CT and at the Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation, NYC. Additional summer 2024 exhibitions featured solo ventures at the Moss Arts Center/Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; and at the Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton, NY. Concurrently, there were several group exhibitions at Venus Over Manhattan, Ortega y Gasset, NY; Springs Projects, NY and at Left Field Gallery, CA. In Fall 2024 Ranee was selected by artist/co-curator Jeffrey Gibson for "The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition", celebrating the 200th anniversary at the Brooklyn Museum. 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.