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 Sharpe-Walentas in 2011. Her work has been featured throughout the New York/NYC region in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, a solo 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. A group show in Paris is forthcoming 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. Upcoming exhibitions will be a solo venture at the Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA; a group exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan--and in the 200th anniversary artists select exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum this fall. 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.