Shilo Ratner

My life long pursuit has been for a deeper understanding of truths in spiritual traditions and the common thread that unites humanity. After earning my MFA, I traveled internationally with intention, intrigued by the symbols and practices of many religions. During my travels I visited Buddhist and Hindu temples in Malaysia and Indonesia. In a rural village in Brazil, I had a powerful shift in consciousness that inspired my series “From Within”. Always returning to contemporary life between these significant journeys has allowed me to express work that is about the “whole” experience vs only focusing on one or the other as my approach embraces various spiritual and cultural experiences through a visual language rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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
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

2023
Claire Carino Contemporary, Perceptual Consciousness, Boston, MA
Burton Younge, Greenwich, CT
New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven, CT

2022
Solo Show, Sorrelle Gallery, Westport, CT
Claire Carino Contemporary Summer Expo, Boston, MA
Affordable Art Fair, New York, NYC
Art Expo Dallas, Dallas, TX


2021
“Summer Abstraction”, Solo Show, Locust Grove Estate Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY
Member Show, Artist Alliance, Santa Fe, NM
Bendheim Gallery, Art to the Avenue, Greenwich, CT

“Design Concepts”, Tailored Home, Greenwich, CT

2020
“Oteaferia”, Solo Show, Mexico City, Mexico
SeeMe “Art Takes Armory”, New York, NY...