About Artist Shilo Ratner
Shilo Ratner is a geometric abstract artist based in New Haven, Connecticut. Working through painting and site-responsive installation, she translates landscape into structured visual systems.
Her paintings offer collectors an opportunity to engage with the translation of landscape into structured visual systems. Drawing from natural environments, Ratner distills terrain into geometric compositions where color, spatial intervals, and layered planes are deliberately constructed. Rather than depict nature, she rebuilds it, developing compositions that prioritize order, variation, and visual precision.
The work balances clarity and movement, control and emergence. Each painting is developed through a process of observation, adjustment, and refinement, resulting in compositions that hold attention and reveal themselves over time.
Her portfolio includes both large-scale paintings and intimate collage works. The collages, made from hand-painted paper, extend her investigation into material contrast, rhythm, and containment at a smaller scale.
EXHIBITIONS & RECOGNITION
Her work has been recognized by curators and jurors including Theophilus Brown, Rita González, Dore Ashton, Dean Sobel, Donna Seager, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, and David Max Horowitz.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Museum of Contemporary Art Marin, Mystic Museum of Art, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Greenwich Art Society, and Candita Clayton Gallery.
She is the recipient of the Dagny Hultgreen Award for Best in Show at the Greenwich Art Society's 103rd Annual Bendheim Exhibit.
Ratner holds an MFA in Painting from Academy of Art University and a BA in Design from Curry College. She grew up in Brant Rock, Massachusetts, a coastal town whose landscape of water and open horizon runs quietly through her work.
PUBLIC ART
Site-specific commissions have placed her work in public and corporate environments, including Southern Connecticut State University's School of Business and the VCU Health Liver Transplant Unit.
COLLECTORS
Ratner welcomes collaboration with collectors, curators, and interior designers on bespoke commissions. Each commissioned work is developed through close consultation, resulting in singular pieces shaped by the unique characteristics of the intended space, palette, and vision.
To inquire about a commission, contact Shilo directly at shiloratner@gmail.com
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