Shilo Ratner

Shilo Ratner is a New Haven–based artist whose work explores balance, freedom, and emotional depth through geometric abstraction and layered color. Over the course of her practice, she has developed a distinctive visual language that merges structure with spontaneity, creating compositions that invite reflection and offer meditative spaces amid the pace of contemporary life. Anchored by natural and architectural references, her paintings convey clarity, energy, and quiet strength while reflecting the complexity and beauty of modern experience.

Ratner’s work encourages pause and engagement, using layered forms and deliberate color to create visual environments that reward sustained attention. Her art consistently bridges intuition with formal control, offering viewers both aesthetic and emotional resonance.

New Haven artist Shilo Ratner showcases geometric abstract works in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. She holds an MFA in Painting and a BA in Design.. Her work has been exhibited widely, juried by figures such as William Theophilus Brown, Rita González, Dore Ashton, Dean Sobel, and Donna Seagar, with honors awarded by Darby Cardonsky, Will Lustenader, and Geaninne Gutierrez-Guimaraes of the Guggenheim. Her paintings are he...

2003-06 MFA Painting, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California
1996-00 BA Design, Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts


GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Claire Carino Contemporary, Boston, MA
GALLERyLABs, Buenos Aires and New Haven, CT
MIKA Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sorelle Gallery, Westport, CT

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2025 - William Benton Museum, Museum, Storrs, CT
2018 – “Make Your Mark”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, CA
2018 – “The 107th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT
2017 – “Metro Montage XV”, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA
2017 – “The 106th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT
2016 – CWA 86th Annual National Open Juried Show, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
2016 – “The 105th Exhibition”, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT
2015 – “Metro Montage XV”, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
 2025- 2016

2025
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
Scottsdale-Ferrari Art Week, Scottsdale, AZ
Public Art Project, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
Public Art Project, VCU Health Liver Transplant Units, Richmond, VA

2024
Fortune Favors Exhibition and Catalog, Online) Jersey City, New Jersey
Claire Carino Contemporary Summer Exhibit, Boston, MA
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Winterlude, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Constructed Worlds, Perspective Gallery, Hamden, CT

2023
Claire Carino Contemporary, Perceptual Consciousness, Boston...