Marek Ranis is a multidisciplinary visual artist
contact: marekranis@yahoo.com
Marek Ranis
Associated Professor of Art
Department of Art and Art History I College of Arts +Architecture
University of North Carolina at Charlotte I Rowe 112
9203 University City Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
P: 704 687 0194
E: mpranis@uncc.edu
www.marekranis.com
Education:
1995 M.F.A. with Distinction, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland, Sculpture /Studio Art
1992-1994 Preservation of Monuments Course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Polannd
1988-1989 Academy of Economy in Wroclaw, Major - Organization Of Management
1988 Art and Design Diploma, Lyceum of Fine Arts Wroclaw, Poland
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Arctic Utopia, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte NC, curated by Brad Thomas
2013 White Supremacy – The End, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC, sculpture, photography, video
2011 Kunstwissenschaft, CPCC Ross Gallery, video installationandphotography, CPCC Charlotte NC,
2011 Single Man Iceberg, Bundanon Trust, Nowra, NSW, Australia (site-specific installation) http://bundanon.com.au/, juried
2011 Iceberg, Sensoria Festival, Overcash Building, CPCC, Charlotte NC - by invitation (site-specific installation) by invitation
2011 Albedo: Paintings and Carpets, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, by invitation
2009 Sea Mammals, Upernavik, Greenland (two-person, street intervention) http://www.transartists.org/air/upernavik-retreat,
2007 Melancholia, Baer Art Center, Iceland (site-specific installation), juried
2006 Albedo 2, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC (paintings, digital images), by invitation
2005 Albedo 1, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC (paintings)
2004 Corridor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Cone Gallery, Charlotte, NC (drawing installation)
2004 Portage, Art Park, Lewiston, NY (site-specific installation)
2003 WAR, Gallery at Carillon and College of Architecture Gallery @Storrs, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2000 Grand Teton, TransAmerica Square, Charlotte, NC
1999 Barriers, Jackson, WY (site-specific, interactive installation)
1998 NASCAR, Suffolk County College Gallery, Long Island, NY (installation)
1997 Natura, Pease Gallery, CPCC, Charlotte, NC (installation)
1996 Christmas Tree, City Hall Lobby, Utica, NY (site-specific installation)
1996 Piney Creek Forest, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY
1996 Natural Landscape, Zamkowa Gallery, Lubin, Poland (installation)
1995 Heads and Lines, Historical Museum, Wroclaw, Poland (sculpture, installation)
1994 Clearing, Zamknieta Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland (site-specific installation)
1994 Trees, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland (site-specific installations)
1993 Gate, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland (installation)
Group Exhibitions
2016 View From Up Here, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK 2 2015 Keeping Watch on Water. UNCCCharlotte NC
2014 Lucania Film Festival, Pisticci, Italy (Hold On video screening)
2014 ARTchipelago, Institut Francais Mauricien (French Institute), Rose Hill, Mauritius, international, curated by Tiffany Thompson
2014 Echoes of Eco, during 2014 winter Olympic Games, ecological video art exhibition, curated by Antonio Geusa,
Winter Theater, Sochi, Russian Federation
2014 North Carolina Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, NC,
3 channel video installation
2013 Polar Series, video installation, Lights Out at Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska, curated by Julie Decker, Ph.D.
2013 3/3/3/13, Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, three-person, invitational, curated by Paul Bright, Winston Salem, NC
2013 Urban Exquis III, cinematic installation in First Green,
New York City, juried
2013 WRO, 15th Media Art Biennale, Pioneering Values, screening of 2013 The Tourist video,
juried and curated by Zbigniew Kupisz, Wroclaw, Poland
2012 Sculpture Key West, art intervention performance, Key West, FL,
juried by Lilly Wei (Art in America), curated by Vera Vasek
2012 Urban Exquis II, cinematic installation in First Green,
New York City, juried
2012 Faculty Biennale, Rowe Gallery, College of Art + Architecture, University of North Carolina Charlotte,
2012 The Game, Installation/Performance during Survival10 Art Review, Wroclaw, Poland, artistic collaboration
with Maja Godlewska and Daniel Han, juried and curated by Michał Bieniek and Anna Kołodziejczyk,
2012 Survival 10 Art Review, Wroclaw, Poland, juried and curated by Michał Bieniek and Anna Kołodziejczyk, catalog,
installations: Mob and 10/07/01.
2011-2012 Co je tu/ co tu neni (The Absent and the Present), Oblastni Galerie, Liberec, Czech Republic and
Museum of Photography (Fotomuseum), Goerlitz, Germany; two-venues traveling exhibition organized by
the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, Poland, curated by Erika Lueders and Piotr Kielan, catalog
2011 SESC – Southern Panoramas, VideoBrasil International Contemporary Art Festival, Sāo Paulo,
Brazil, juried and curated by Solange Farkas, video screening
2011 14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011, Alternative Now, multiple venues in Wroclaw, Krakow, Lublin,
Poznan (PL), Lviv (Ukraine), Gdansk (PL) Berlin, Germany, Paris, France; Barcelona, Spain, Lviv (Ukraine),
Gdansk (PL), Sibiu (Romania) and Tallin (Estonia) juried and curated by Piotr Krajewski, video screening of Hold On
2011 Moves, International Festival of Movement on Screen Moves11, Intersection, Liverpool, UK, juried, video screening
2011 Hold On, Maskara Gallery, curated by Celina Jeffrey, Ph.D. and Avantika Bava, Mumbai, India,
site-specific installation and video installation
2011 Spring Fling at McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte NC,
video screening,
2010 Arrival- Key West, During Sculpture Key West, multiple locations temporary installation/performance,
Key West, Florida, juried, curated by Lilly Wei
2010 Postcards from the End of the World, two-day performance during Wroclaw Podwodny Multimedia Art Festival,
Wroclaw, Poland, invitational
2010 Wroclaw Podwodny, Wroclaw, Poland, video installation, invitational
2010 TEDx Charlotte, Knight Theater, Charlotte, NC, video screening
2009 Wroclaw Podwodny, Art Center Browar, Wroclaw, Poland, video screening, invitational
2008 Urban Heat Island (Wyspa Ciepla) installation during Breslau CV, Wroclaw, Poland,
(multiple locations downtown Wroclaw, curated by Jola Bielanska, catalogue)
2008 Warmer /Colder (Cieplo-Zimno) installation during WODA (Water) Project International,
Wroclaw NON-Stop, Center City, Wroclaw, Poland, (four-person, invitational, curators: Marcin Wiktorski/Maja Godlewska)
2008 Iceberg for Kielzog Project, Holland, site-specific installation (juried competition, catalogue)
2008 Moderate Temporary, site-specific installation for Peace exhibition, at Andreas H. Bechtler Foundation, Mt. Holly, NC (catalogue)
2008 River Docs, York County Museum of Culture and Heritage, Rock Hill, SC (curator: June Lambla, catalogue)
2008 21st Century Landscape, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC
(curator: Joie Lassiter, catalogue)
2007 Greune Revolutie, NaturKunst Drenthe, Sleen, Holland
(juried competition)
2007 Guandu Park Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan (juried, catalogue)
2007 River Docs, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC (curator: June Lambla, catalogue)
2007 White, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2007 Wroclaw NONSTOP, Urban Potential, Wroclaw, Poland
2007 Off Festival, Industrial Art, Myslowice, Poland
2007 Sculpture Key West, Key West, FL (catalogue, juried)
2006 Melancholia video screening during The Annual Show, Andreas H. Bechtler Foundation, Mt. Holly, NC (curator: Michael Godfrey)
2006 Crosscurrents, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte (curators: Linda Dougherty, Huston Paschal, Carla Hanzal; painting and tapestry; catalogue)
2005 Contemporary Landscape: Crossing Boundaries, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC (curator: June Lambla, catalogue, site-specific installation)
2005 War, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC (curator: Crista Cammaroto, installation)
2005 Homegrown, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC (juried by South Eastern Center for Contemporary Arts Curatorial Staff, installation, catalogue)
2005 Crosscurrents, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (curators: Linda Dougherty, Huston Paschal, Carla Hanzal, painting and tapestry, catalogue)
2004 SPIER Sculpture Biennale, Cape Town, South Africa (juried,
catalogue, site-specific installation)
2002 Faculty Show, Pease Gallery, CPCC, Charlotte, NC (sculpture)
2002 Chemin d’Art International Sculpture Symposium and Exhibition,
St. Flour, France (juried, site-specific installation, catalogue)
2002 What’s New, Spirit Square Gallery, Charlotte, NC (curator: Peter Richards, sculpture, installation)
2002 Sticks and Stones Site-Specific Art Festival, Woodford, Queensland, Australia (invitational, site-specific installation)
2001 The Floating Land, International Site-Specific Art Laboratory, Noosa, Queensland, Australia (site-specific installation)
2001 Vision in Site, Public Art+Landscape, The Gallery at Carillon, Charlotte, NC (curator: Jean Greer, drawings and models in collaboration with Maja Godlewska and Greg Snyder)
2001 Reconstructing Eden-Looking at the Contemporary American Landscape, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC (curator: June Lambla, sculpture)
2001 Faculty Show, Pease Gallery, CPCC, Charlotte, NC (sculpture)
2001 Re –Tire, The Gallery at Carillon, Charlotte, NC (drawings)
2000 Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC (juried, curator: Ron Platt, drawings, catalogue)
2000 Trouble Shooting – Gun Violence, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC (curator: June Lambla, sculpture)
2000 From the Ground Up, Environmental Outdoor Sculpture Show, Jackson, WY (curator: Karen Stuart, catalogue, site-specific, interactive installation)
2000 Turning Point: South 2000, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC (curator: Joie Lassiter, site-specific installation)
2000 Works in Progress, Show of Affiliate Artists at McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, (invitational, curator: Peter Richards, installation)
1999 Connemara Sculpture Park, Dallas TX (juried, site-specific installation, catalogue)
1998 Le Vent des Forets, Lahaymeix, Sculpture Park, France
1998 Queens College Gallery, Charlotte, NC (installation)
1998 Winthrop University, Faculty Show, Rock Hill, SC (sculpture)
1997 Inter/Change, Sculpture for a Changing Landscape, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, NY (juried, site -specific installation)
1996 Faehrstationen, International Sculpture SymposiumWehningen/Elbe, Germany (juried, site-specific installation)
1995 Gallerie 7, Nogent le Rotrou, France (sculpture)
1995 Kunst und Natur, International Sculpture Symposium, Wigry, National Park, Poland (catalogue, site-specific installation)
1995 Kunst und Natur, Mueritz Natonal Park, Germany (juried, catalogue, site-specific Installation)
1995 Week- Art, Gallerie du Pilier Rouge, Le Mans, France (curator: Lucien Ruimy, sculpture, site-specific Installation)
1994 Week- Art, International Art Exhibition, Le Mans, France
(curator: Lucien Ruimy, catalogue, drawings)
1994 National Ceramic Symposium, State Gallery Boleslawiec, Jelenia Gora, Wroclaw, Poland (curator: Krystyna Kutchenreiter, catalogue, ceramic sculpture)
1993 Grenzgaenger-International Sculpture Symposium, Haeidmuehle, Germany (invitational, catalogue, site-specific installation)
1993 Polish-Slovak Sculpture Symposium, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland (site-specific installation)
1992 Young Wroclaw Artists, State Gallery, Kamienna Gora, Poland
Performances:
2014 Luxury Paradise, Performance, Flic en Flac public beach, Flic en Flac, Mauritius, in collaboration with Maja Godlewska and participation of ten international artists
2012 The Game, Performance during Survival10 Art Review, Wroclaw Poland, collaboration with Maja Godlewska and Daniel Han, catalog http://www.survival.art.pl/,120, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vUUdMDZ-P0,
2010 Arrival- Key West, During Sculpture Key West, multiple locations Key West, Florida
http://sculpturekeywest.org/2012-ranis.php
2009 Arrival-Greenland, Upernavik Airport and multiple locations on icecap, Greenland
2007 Floating Land, during Guandu Park Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
1995 Resin, Square Dubois, Le Mans, France
1995 So Sweet, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland
1993 Meeting in The Passage, Wroclaw, Poland
4.3 Conference Presentations
2014 February 7-9, presented artistic research Albedo during 3-day international conference Reading And Exhibiting Nature at University of Westminster London UK.
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/cream/events-and-exhibitions/reading-and-exhibiting-nature-
2013 Nov 6, Art Ethics and Community Impact, presenter and panelist at one
5.1 Grants, Awards
National and International:
2013 Rasmuson Foundation Fellowship, Anchorage, Alaska
($4,000.00) research/residency fellowship; investigator: Marek Ranis
2013 Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
($2,000.00 research grant + $500.00 art materials stipend) investigator: Marek Ranis
2012 Survival10 - $1500.00 Production Grant from Art Transparent (Poland) for The Game installation/performance
2010 Partial funding from Pro Arte Foundation, Poland for Postcards from the End of the World, two-day performance during Wroclaw Podwodny Multimedia Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland ($500.00)
2009 American Scandinavian Foundation Grant, NY, Visual Arts Research Grant ($5,000.00); investigator: Marek Ranis; for residency/research in Greenland
2008 City of Wroclaw Grant for WODA Project International, a site-specific, four-person exhibition during Wroclaw-Non Stop, Poland
production grant for Ciepło-Zimno installation, investigator: Marek Ranis ($ 4,000.00)
2008 City of Wroclaw Grant for Breslau CV Urban Heat Island production ($ 7,000.00), investigator: Marek Ranis
1997 ArtsLink Grant, Soros Foundation NYC, NY, USA, Fellowship ($10,000.00); investigator: Marek Ranis
1996 UNESCO- ASCHBERG Boursaries for Artists Grant, UNESCO, Paris, France, Fellowship ($10,000.00); investigator: Marek Ranis
Recognition:
2009 Best Local Artist, Creative Loafing Critics Choice
2008 The Best Show of 2007, Creative Loafing, Charlotte, NC, for River Docs, group exhibition in Light Factory
2006 Americans for the Arts Public Art Network National Recognition for Art in Transit Project (a façade of a South Tryon Street Bus Maintenance Facility) in Charlotte, NC
2005 Best Artist Award, Charlotte Magazine, Charlotte, NC
2003 The Best Show of 2003, Creative Loafing, Charlotte, NC
5.2 Regional Grants:
2012 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award
research grant, investigator: Marek Ranis
2012 Regional Artist Project Grant, Arts & Science Council – Charlotte/Mecklenburg, Inc. Project Grant
research grant, investigator: Marek Ranis
2006 Regional Artist Project Grant, Arts & Science Council – Charlotte/Mecklenburg, Inc. Project Grant
research grant, investigator: Marek Ranis
1999 Regional Artist Project Grant of Arts & Science Council – Charlotte/Mecklenburg, Inc. research grant,
investigator: Marek Ranis
5.3 Institutional Grants:
2013-2014 Faculty Research Grant for Luxury Paradise, University of North Carolina Charlotte (12,000.00), investigators: Maja Godlewska, Marek Ranis (joint project)
2013-2014 Research/travel support AAH Chair
Research/travel support CoA+A Dean (
2012-2013 Research support CoA+A Dean (3200.00)
Research and travel support AAH Chair (1500.00)
2011-2012 Faculty Research Grant for Albedo-Greenland, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, (6000.00), investigator: Marek Ranis
5.5. Other Extramural Awards and Art Residencies:
Majority of listed artist-in-residence programs were highly competitive and carried significant monetary value (providing air travel, room and board, art materials stipend, assistants and/or equipment and local transportation)
2014 Artist-in-Residence at pARTage/ARTchipelago, Flic en Flac, Mauritius
http://www.theworldpress.com/aviser/verdenaviser/mauritiusaviser/lemauricien.htm
2014-2016 Artist-in-Residence at Anchorage Museum, as a part of Polar Lab and Northern Initiative Project, Anchorage, AK
http://www.anchoragemuseum.org/about/northern_initiative/polar_lab.aspx
2013 Artist-in-Residence at Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
Sponsored by Rasmuson Foundation (full travel, room, board support in Alaska and Iceland, monetary value of $5,000.00) http://unccartswriting.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/marek-ranis-back-from-the-arctic/
2011 Artist-in-Residence, Bundanon Trust, Bundanon, Nowra, NSW, Australia
http://www.bundanon.com.au/content/marek-ranis
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Franz Mayer Glass Studio, Munich, Germany, monetary value of $3,000.00
http://www.mayer-of-munich.com/
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Upernavik Museum, Upernavik, Greenland
http://www.transartists.org/air/upernavik-retreat
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Rodriguez-Amat Foundation, Garrigoles, Spain
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Kielzog, Art in Nature Laboratory Art Symposium, Markneese Netherlands
2007 Artist-in-Residence, Baer Art Center, Hofsos, Iceland
2007 Artist-in-Residence, Guandu Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Artist-in-Residence, NaturKunst Drenthe, Sleen, Netherlands
2001-2009 Guest Artist, Andreas Bechtler Arts Foundation (LIPAS), Mt. Holly, NC, monetary value: $10,000.00 a year
2002 Artist-in-Residence, Sticks and Stones, Art Festival, Woodford, Australia
2001 The Floating Land, International Site-Specific Art Laboratory, Noosa, Australia
1999-2001 Affiliate Artist, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
1999 Artist-in-Residence, Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, TX
1998 Artist-in-Residence, Le Vent des Forets, Lahaymeux, France
1997 Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, NY
1997 Visiting Artist, CPCC, Charlotte, NC
1996 Sculpture Space Inc., Utica, NY
1996 International Sculpture Symposium/Residency
Faehrstationen, Wehningen/Elbe, Germany
1996 Artist-in-Residence, Ucross Foundation, WY
1995 International Sculpture Symposium/Residency Kunst und Natur Mueritz National Park, Germany and Wigry National Park,Poland
1993 Grenzgaenger, International Sculpture Symposium/Residency,
Haeidmuehle, Germany
1993 Boleslawiec ‘93, Ceramic Sculpture Symposium/Residency, Boleslawiec, Poland
1993 International Sculpture Symposium/Residency, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland