RANI CARSON

77 Riverside Drive, Riverhead, NY 11901
Phone: (631) 369-5207
Website: rastafari-inspiration.com
Email: RaniCarsonArt@gmail.com

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024"Songs of Freedom", Gallery 90, Center Moriches, NY
2022"Wa Fe Do/What is to be Done" (with Arthur Hughes), Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2019"Peaceful Warriors" (with Nancy Grilikhes), Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2019"One Under the Sun", Lyceum Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, Eastern Campus, Riverhead, NY
2014-2015"Ageless Beauty", Victorian Doll Paintings, Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead, NY
2014"Paintings of Victorian Dolls & Toys", South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY
2014"Paintings of Jamaica", Art Sites, Riverhead, NY
2013"Visioning", Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2011"The Promised Land", ARTSQUEST, Crayola Gallery, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
2011Gallery West, Suffolk Community College, Brentwood, NY
2010Lobby Art Gallery, Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, Patchogue, NY
2009"Entwined Roots", Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2006Le Grand Dakar, Brooklyn, NY
2005"Praises", Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2003Prince Street Gallery, NYC
1998-2005Belles' Cafe, Westhampton, NY
1998"Retrospect", Suffolk Community College, Western Campus, Brentwood, NY
1995Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993Chelsea Galleries, Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
1992Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica West Indies
1988College Center Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1985Bluebird Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY
1983Allan Stone Gallery, NYC
1973-85First Street Gallery, NYC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019"The Summer Exhibition", National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
2019"OLA Benefit Art Show, Southampton Cultural Center, Southampton, NY
2018"Here Comes the Sun", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2018"Carefully Out of Nowhere", Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2016"Deck the Halls", Gallery North, Setauket, NY
2016"The Contemporary Portrait", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2014-16"Chess, Adjustable Objects", An Annual Medialia Gallery Space II Exhibition, NYC
2014"Anniversary Exhibition", Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica West Indies
2014"Diasporic Transmission, An Exploration in Color", Farah Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2014"Line", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2013"Anniversary Exhibition", Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica West Indies
2013"Chess, Adjustable Objects", An Annual Medialia Gallery Space II Exhibition, NYC
2013"Diversity", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, N.Y.
2012"A Welcoming Beacon", Art Connects New York, El Centro del Immigrante, Staten Island, NY
2012"La Morte", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2012"Death Becomes Her", Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead, NY
2011"Winners' Show", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2011"Women", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2010-11National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
2010"Anniversary Exhibition", Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica West Indies
2010"Self as Subject", Best in Show, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2009"tales to tell: narratives and insights", Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY
2009"rerooted", Art Sites, Riverhead, NY
2008-9National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
2008"Food", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2008"Madeline, sketches of an artist's model", The South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY
2008"The Finale", Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY
2007"Witnessing", Gallery West, Suffolk Community College, Brentwood, NY
2007"Embrace what's left...", Atelier Decorative & Fine Art, Greenport, NY
2007"Duality", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2007"Works on Paper", Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2007"Diminutive", Medialia...Rack and Hamper Gallery Space, NYC
2007"The Portrait", Medialia...Rack and Hamper Gallery, NYC
2006-7National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
2006"Reflection and Renewal", Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY
2005"Witnessing", Gallery 4222, Port Jefferson, NY
2005"Witnessing", Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY
2004-5National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
2004"Renewal", The CASE Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ
2004"Social Perspective", Medialia...Rack and Hamper Gallery Space II, NYC
2004"All About Women", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2004"Reminiscence", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2003"Art as a Reflection of Truth", Black Box Gallery, Oakland, Ca.
2003"Body, Mind, Spirit", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2002-3National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
2002"21st Anniversary Exhibition", Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica West Indies
2002"About Face", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2001"A Shriek from an Invisible Box" International Exhibition, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2001Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
2000Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
2000Small Works 2000, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2000"No One is Alone", A Benefit Auction for African Children with AIDS (Savacou Gallery NYC)
2000New Members Show, Prince Street Gallery, NY
2001"Raise the Roof" Exhibition, Harmony Hall, Jamaica West Indies
2000"FARMS!!!" A Juried Exhibition, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
1999Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica West Indies
1999"94 Days of Summer,"A Survey of Long Island Painters, Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY
1997"Invited Artists," Pleiades Gallery, NYC
1997Phillip Howard Education & Cultural Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1994Juried Alumni Exhibition, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
1991Group Exhibition, Design Masters Intergroup Galleries, NYC
1991"Gabriel Laderman Selects, A National Competition," First Street Gallery, NYC
1990"Still Life: Theater of the Object," Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, NYC
1991"Ronnie Carson, Gabriel Koren, Michael Kerbow," New Waterfront Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1989Mail/Art Against Apartheid Exhibit, Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
198955 Mercer Street, Invitational, NYC
1989Drawing Show, curated by Richard LoPresti, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1988, 85, 84Group Show, Allan Stone Gallery, NYC
1988Invitational, AMMO, Brooklyn, NY
1987"The Doll Show," Mill Gallery, Guilford Handcrafts Center, Guilford, CT
1987"Artists in Their Own Image: An Exhibition of Self-Portraits," Lake Placid Center for the Arts
1987"Movietone Muse," 1 Penn Plaza, NYC
1986"Nude Self-Portraits," Invitational, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
1986Portrait Show, AMMO, Brooklyn, NY
1986Berkeley-Carroll Street School Centennial Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
1986Farm Worker Benefit Auction, Suffolk Committee for Community Arts, Center Moriches, NY
1986Penrose Gallery, Nantucket, MA
1986"Costumes, Masks, and Disguises," The Clocktower, NYC
1986"The Doll Show: Artists' Dolls and Figurines," Hillwood Art Gallery, L.I.U., Greenvale, NY
1985Ninth Annual "Small Works" Show, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University
1984"Art Against Apartheid," Abyssinian Baptist Church, NYC & Westbeth Exhibition Space, NYC
1984"Beginnings and Endings, from Mental Image to Visible Form", Art Gallery, Boylan Hall, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1982"Realist Painting: People and Things in Women's Lives," curated by Sylvia Sleigh, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC
1982"Intimate Visions," curated by Tomar Levine, Artists' Choice Museum, Ruth E. Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, State University College at Cortland, NY
1982"A Woman's Place," Women Artists Living in Brooklyn, Kingsborough Community College, Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1982"Collage," Gallery North, Setauket, NY
1981"Christmas Belles," Allan Stone Gallery, NYC
1980"Interior/Exterior," Figurative Artists of Park Slope, Community Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY and Henry St. Settlement, NYC

PUBLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS

May 14, 2014 (rebroadcast April 10, 2019)W.P.K.N., 89.5 FM, Interview ("Rasta Artists") with Hazel Kahan on her show: "Tidings", Bridgeport, CT
October 15, 2010The Press of Manorville and the Moriches, Center Moriches, NY
November 26, 2006The New Times Holler! A Special Interview by Amir Bey
July, 2005The Sound Observer, Long Island, NY
Winter, 2003American Artist, Winter/Watercolor Edition, NYC
September, 2003The Gleaner, Jamaica West Indies
September, 2003Caribbean Life, NYC
August, 2003The New York Times, NYC
May, 1999Traveler Watchman, Long Island
August, 1998Southampton Press, Long Island
June, 1998Suffolk Times, Long Island
March, 1998Newsday, Long Island Edition
November, 1995K.P.O.O., 89.5FM, Interview, San Francisco, CA
June, 1994Radio Contrabanda, FM 91, Interview, Barcelona, Spain
May, 1993Sunday Gleaner, Pure Class, Jamaica West Indies
July, 1992The Star, Jamaica West Indies
March & April, 1992The Daily Gleaner, Jamaica West Indies
November, 1989The Phoenix, NYC
September, 1989The Phoenix, NYC
1989"Transformation of the Avante Garde: New York Art World 1940-1985," Diana Crane, University of Chicago Press
September, 1981Arts Magazine, NYC
May, 1979Arts Magazine, NYC
June, 1977Arts Magazine, NYC

AWARDS

1973Graduate Fellowship, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

1974Brooklyn College, M.F.A., Painting
1962Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A., English Literature

EMPLOYMENT

Spring, 2014Suffolk County Community College, Grant Campus, Brentwood, NY - Interim Curator of Gallery West
Fall, 2011, 2013Suffolk County Community College, Grant Campus, Brentwood, NY - Professor of Art (Adjunct)
1993 - 2008Suffolk County Community College, Grant Campus, Brentwood, NY - Curator of Gallery West
1974 - 2010Suffolk County Community College, Grant Campus, Brentwood, NY - Professor of Art

Updated: September 22, 2023