“Mukherjee has an impressive command of various mediums, working in a hybrid of collage, painting, and film cohesively to tackle topics of colonization, climate, and time through compositions of plants, minerals, bodies, and objects – such as furniture made with exploited materials – that come together in a distinct visual landscape.” – Juror Christine Koppes, Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, ICA San Francisco.

Ranu Mukherjee is the recipient of the 2023 Spirit of the Depths Artadia Award.

Ranu Mukherjee’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco ; Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL, the San Jose Museum of Art, CA and Gallery Wendi Norris. Recent film installations have been presented by Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022-2023, the 2019 Karachi Biennale and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Mukherjee was the 2025 San Francisco Ballet Curtain Commission Artist and has produced large scale public artwork for San Francisco Arts Commission, Mercy Housing and Pembroke. ‘Score for Transitional Times’, her most recent live production with choreographer Hope Mohr, premiered at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in 2025.

Ranu Mukherjee’s paintings, film installations and performances cultivate an ecological, somatic, feminist and multidimensional perspective, connecting experiences of time, rupture, energy and futurity, with the intention to work against exhaustion. Employing layered speculative fictional and compositional methodologies, she engages a range of materials including pigment, digital pattern, sari cloth, choreography, sound and animation to create creolized forms and spaces for inhabiting complexity. Depictions of plant, mineral, animal and human bodies, along with furniture, microphones and other devices, come together in fields of luminescent color, reconfiguring relationships and picturing differently tuned worlds.