Shannon Rankin

Shannon Rankin is a New Mexico-based visual artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in numerous publications. For more information visit shannonchristinerankin[dot]com

"Shannon Rankin is an artist who uses the language of maps to explore the complexities and interconnections between the inner and outer worlds, between that which is known and that which remains beyond the field of knowledge, that mythical place on medieval maps where the dragons lie and cherubs blow the wind. The duality of our human capacity for imagination and reason, for creation and destruction, for being of nature and apart from it, is a rhumb line that courses through her work." - Suzette McAvoy

"Shannon Rankin has always invented her own terrain. She maps landscapes of imagination, juxtapositions of time and place, experience and information transformed and reorganized into elegant and precise and surprising patterns. They are maps of her heart and her mind; they are surprising allegories of human navigation." - Deborah Weisgall

Shannon Rankin has been an artist in residence at the Studios at MASS MoCA (2017), the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (2016-17), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2011) and the Vermont Studio Center (2010). Awards and grants include the A.R.T. Fund Award from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2014), the Good Idea Grant from the Maine Arts Commission (2010) and the CMCA Juror’s Award from the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (2010).

In 1997 she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine. Rankin was a Maine-based artist for 20 years.

Solo exhibitions include Overview at the Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, NM (2016), Fathom at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, ME (2011) and Disperse/Displace at Gallery Voss in Düsseldorf, Germany (2010).

Select group exhibitions include Materiality: The Matter of Matter at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, ME (2017), Water is Everything at Drive-By Projects in Watertown, MA (2017), Go Where the Map Takes You: The Intersection of Cartography and Creativity at the Osher Map Library in Portland, ME (2017), Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH (2017), Beyond Boundaries at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT (2015), Excavations at the New Art Center in Newton, Massachusetts (2015), and Art in the Embassies in Doha, Qatar (2014-2016).