Daniel Ranalli
Daniel Ranalli has been working as a visual artist for over 30 years. His work is in the permanent collections of over 20 museums here and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Gallery of American Art (Smithsonian). He has been included in over 120 solo and group shows in the U.S. and abroad and his work has been reviewed and reproduced in numerous publications including ArtForum International, Art News, The Boston Globe, AfterImage, Arts Media and many others.
Ranalli has received a number of prestigious artist's fellowships including two from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Earth Watch, Visual Artist Sea Grant. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in America and Biography International.
Ranalli's works in long series – sometimes stretching out over a decade, and is sometimes characterized as conceptual-environmental and often based on chance effects. One series involved "choreographing" the drawings of snails in wet tidal sand and another raking large Zen Gardens in the sand dunes and beaches in Ireland and the Outer Cape. For the past year he has been photographing chalkboards at Boston University where he founded the Graduate Program in Arts Administration and where he continues to teach.
Ranalli is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston and artSTRAND in Provincetown. His website is: danielranalli.com.
For more information, send email to dranalli@bu.edu.
