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Ranu Mukherjee (born May 31, 1966, Boston, Massachusetts ) is an artist whose work explores states of excess, drawing links between present-day global capitalism and cultural stereotypes still residual in our collective psyche. She begins her projects with research, culling content from a variety of diverse sources ranging from nineteenth-century Indian lithographs to the pages of Vogue India, from ancient mythological texts to current events. Through layering and the recombination of this source material the artist creates an amalgam of media, subjects, ideas, and time, all within the same space. The results—paintings, textiles, and video—are seductive in their messy beauty but also feel awkward and foreign. The artwork asks viewers to imagine a world beyond the everyday, ungoverned by language or logic. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Mukherjee attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and graduate school at the Royal College of Art in London. She lives and works in San Francisco. Mukherjee is also co-creator and member of the artist collective 0rphan Drift, a collaborative media artist and avatar.

Solo Exhibitions, Museum Projects, and Collections
Ranu Mukherjee's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including;


 * ''Ranu Mukherjee: A Bright Stage" at the De Young Museum, San Francisco (2018-2019)
 * Phantasmagoria at the Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois (2016-2017)
 * Extracted: A Trilogy at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2015-2016)
 * Phantasmagoric at Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Stark Bar (2016)
 * Beta Space: Ranu Mukherjee: Telling Fortunes at the San Jose Museum of Art (2012)

Her work is in the collections of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Jose Museum of Art , Oakland Museum of California, Kadist Foundation, and the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation.