About Artist Shilo Ratner
Shilo Ratner is a geometric abstract artist based in New Haven, Connecticut. Her practice investigates how landscape becomes structure, translating natural environments into systems of geometry, color, and spatial perception. Working across painting and collage, she constructs images that are rooted in observation but resolved through abstraction, where form is used not to depict nature, but to reconstruct it as a visual language.
Across her work, Ratner explores the relationship between structure and perception, building compositions defined by calibrated color, layered planes, and precise spatial relationships. These works operate between control and intuition, creating tension between stability and movement, clarity and depth.
Exhibitions and Recognition
Ratner's work has been exhibited in curated solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries across the United States and internationally. Her work has been selected and juried by leading figures in contemporary art, including Theophilus Brown, Rita González, Dore Ashton, Dean Sobel, Donna Seager, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, and David Max Horowitz.
Her work has been recognized with awards including the Dagny Hultgreen Award for Best in Show at the Greenwich Art Society's 103rd Annual Bendheim Exhibit.
Institutional exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art Marin, Mystic Museum of Art, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Greenwich Art Society, Candita Clayton Gallery, and others across the United States.
Her paintings are held in private collections internationally.
Practice
In her painting practice, Ratner develops geometric landscapes that reduce terrain into structured visual systems. In her collage work, she explores similar concerns at an intimate scale, using hand-painted paper and material contrast to investigate containment, rhythm, and spatial balance.
Across both mediums, her work is unified by a consistent focus: how landscape becomes structure, and how structure becomes a way of seeing.
Commissions
Ratner accepts select commissions for collectors and interior designers seeking original works tailored to specific environments. Each commission is developed in close dialogue, resulting in one-of-a-kind paintings shaped by space, palette, and intention.
Grounded in Nature. Defined by Form.
