Daniel Ranalli has been working as a visual artist for over 30 years. His work is in the permanent collections of over 20 museums here and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Gallery of American Art (Smithsonian). He has been included in over 120 solo and group shows in the U.S. and abroad and his work has been reviewed and reproduced in numerous publications including ArtForum International, Art News, The Boston Globe, AfterImage, Arts Media and many others.
Ranalli has received a number of prestigious artist’s fellowships including two from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Earth Watch, Visual Artist Sea Grant. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in America and Biography International.
Ranalli’s work is often characterized as conceptual-environmental and is often based on random effects. One series involved “choreographing” the drawings of snails in wet tidal sand and another the raking of large Zen Gardens in the sand dunes and beaches in Ireland and the Outer Cape.
In 1993 Daniel Ranalli founded the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Boston University where he continues to teach. The program now has over 90 students and is one of the largest programs in the country. He also wrote extensively on artist issues for several publications in the 1980s and 1990s.
Now Ranalli lives in Cambridge and Wellfleet, Massachusetts with his wife the painter, Tabitha Vevers.
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