Edd Ravn
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Edd Ravn is a British artist based in the US. His practice centers on growth, decay, and transformation, explored through collaborative rituals and material experimentation. Grounded in the porous boundaries between self and world, his work invites dialogue about our relationships with the earth, each other, and the mutable flows of existence.
Ravn holds a BFA (Hons) from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (MA), RAINRAIN Gallery (NY), the Norton Museum (FL), and the Brazilian Embassy in London. He has served as a visiting artist and critic at Yale University, Princeton University, and the University of Michigan. In 2024, he was named a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, where he received the Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship.
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Education
2018-2020 | MFA Painting, Yale School of Art
2011-2015 | BFA (Hons) Painting, Glasgow School of Art
2013 | Exchange Program, California Institute of the Arts
Exhibitions
2025 | love, ModA Curations Gallery, New York
2025 | Kasmin for Artistic Noise: Benefit Auction 2025, Kasmin Gallery, NY
2025 | tongue roughed, the way we press the body, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2025 | The FAWC Fellows, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2024 | Abstract Fabulism, TW Fine Art, West Palm Beach
2024 | Rent Free in Our Head curated by Claire Zehnith & Yuna Cabon, Off E 6th, New York
2024 | bios, morphe, Curated by Civil Art and Loft121 Gallery at Maison Mono, New York
2023 | Currents, Curated by Alex Feim, Morris Adjmi Architects, New York
2023 | The Lafayette Rendezvous, RAINRAIN Gallery, New York
2021 | Norton Museum of Art 80th Anniversary, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach
2020 | When Life Doesn’t Give You Lemons, Tchotchke Gallery, New York
2020 | Area Gallery, Boston
2020 | MFA Thesis Show, Perrotin Gallery, New York
2020 | Only When You Are Called, Yale School of Art, New Haven
2019 | New Paintings, The Study, New Haven
2019 | When Will You Learn That There Isn’t A Word For Everything, Nunn’s Yard, Norwich
2019 | Form and Function, Burghley House, Stamford
2018 | Empty Vessels, Scaffold Gallery at Bankley Gallery, Manchester
2018 | No Safe Haven, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow
2017 | A Thousand Words, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester
2017 | Creekside Open 2017, A.P.T Gallery, London
2017 | the good life, Apologia, Market Peckham, London
2017 | Contemporary Venice, Palazzo Flangini, Venice
2016 | Ibero-American Arts Awards, Embassy of Brazil, London
2016 | Future Landscapes, Palazzo Ca’Zanardi, Venice
2016 | Bought Objects, Voidoid Archive, Glasgow
2016 | Cheeseburn Sculpture, Northumberland
2016 |Twitter Art, Trygve Lie Gallery, New York
2015 | Wingdings, The Byker Gallery, Newcastle
2015 | TIAF London, The Rag Factory, London
2015 | All You Can Eat, Truman Brewery, London
2015 | Let’s Fornicate, Tontine, Glasgow
2014 | I am {////} for you: vernissage – Fleming House, Glasgow
2013 | FOREIGN, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Teaching
2025 | Visiting Artist, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2023 | Visiting Artist and Critic, Princeton University
2023 | Visiting Artist and Critic, University of Michigan
2020 | Visiting Artist and Critic, Yale School of Art
2019 | Teaching Assistant, Yale University, Rob Storr (Truisms and Falsisms)
2019 | Teaching Assistant, Yale College, Halsey Rodman (Words and Pictures)
2019 | Teaching Assistant, Yale College, Lisa Kereszi (Senior Project Critique)
2015 | Visiting Artist and Critic, Port Glasgow High School
Awards
2025 | Milton and Sally Avery Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center
2020 | Art and Social Justice Initiative Award Fund, Yale University
2017 | Annex Collection Acquisition Award, Shortlist
2016 | Annex Collection Acquisition Award, Shortlist
2016 | Ibero-American Arts Award, Shortlist
2016 | Dubai’s International Emerging Artist Award, Shortlist
Publications | Talks | Readings
2025 | Artscope, Magazine, Article ‘Rituals of Earth and Change’
2025 | Shankpainter 64, Publication, Poem
2024 | Civil Art Publishing, Interview
2021 | Chromavores: Color Theory in Painting 2021, Yale School of Art, Moderator
2021 | Art Master Magazine, Interview
2020 | Perrotin Gallery, Online talk
2019 | Form and Function at Burghley Sculpture Garden, Catalogue
2019 | Historic Houses Magazine, Article
2017 | New River Press Poetry Yearbook, Book
2017 | Poetry Alive! Ilkley Literary Festival, Yorkshire, Reading
2016 | Brittle Star Magazine Issue 39, Barbican Centre, Journal and Reading
2016 | Future Landscapes, Catalogue
2016 | Best of IEAA 2016, Book
Residencies
2024-25 | Fine Arts Work Center, Visual Fellow, Provincetown, MA
2017 | Porthmeor Studios, St Ives
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