Biography
Raneece Buddan is a London-based Jamaican artist who recently completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2026 and her BFA in Art and Design with Distinction at the University of Alberta in Canada. She received the 2025 Eldon and Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Art Prize and has been exhibited in Canada, the USA, France, and Italy. She has completed Artist Residencies in Canada, the USA, France, and, recently, in Athens, Greece. As a Maker, her practice includes oil painting, woodworking, ceramics, printmaking, textiles, and, most recently, bronze and photography.
Artist Statement
As a multidisciplinary Afro-Indo-Jamaican artist, Raneece Buddan creates work that is an autoethnographic reflection on hybrid identities within Jamaica and the wider diaspora. Curious about the staples of our culture and their origins, she looks at traditional crafts and artifacts from Ghana, Nigeria, and India that we have lost connection to due to colonization, reconstructing them through a contemporary lens to reflect our present. With centuries of migration and trade, different cultures leave traces like sediments, adapting to what was left behind and making something new.
Evoking the past and making it the centre of her present, she creates her own visual language in her paintings, textiles, ceramics, and bronze work by reinterpreting what was as what is. Changes made to refer to the present include changing a bronze pot covered in motifs and a warrior from 17th-century Benin, most likely used in funerary rites, to a capsule that highlights elements of Jamaica: the hummingbird, sugarcane that brought Africans and Indians to the island, and the makers like herself who are telling their story. Experimenting with materiality, process, and form, she creates an archive of artifacts to reflect what Jamaicans mean when they say “out of many, one people,” a multicultural society built by many. Her practice is about more than replicating master craftsmanship; it is the process and the journey of learning, discovering, and reconnecting. Combining traditional ways of making with new technology means she is constantly finding opportunities to make new connections that respond to our ever-changing identities.
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Education
2026 MA Sculpture, The Royal College of Art
2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design with Distinction, The University of Alberta,
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Come mek mi hole yuh han, The Works Art & Design Festival, Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB
Out of Many, We Became One, The Works Art & Design Festival, The Westin, Edmonton, AB
Threading Through Time, Art Gallery of St. Albert, curated by Emily Baker, St. Albert, AB
In this vessel I am…, Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, curated by Nura Ali, Edmonton, AB
2022-2023
2022
Desiderium, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, curated by Adam Whitford, Lethbridge, AB
Blending Families through Cultural Textiles, Prairie Crocus, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
De more yu luk, de less yu si, Stollery Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Awards & Grants
The Jaguar Award (Shortlisted)
Kenneth Armitage Foundation Annual Sculpture Prize (shortlisted)
2026
2025
Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize
2024
Edmonton Arts Council's (EAC) Equity and Access Grants for Individuals & Collectives (Stream 2)
2023
AFA - Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant
2021
Edmonton Arts Council's (EAC) Equity and Access Grants for Individuals & Collectives (Stream 1)
2018
Universiade ‘83 Scholarship
Golden Key International Honour Society
Group Exhibitions
2026
RCA BLK 2026, curated by Sani Sani & Jarelle Andre Francis, Studio/Chapple, London, UK
Translation Issues? , curated by RCA Africa, Africa Centre, London, UK
The Art of Urgency: Cross School Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Biennale Internazionale Donna \ V edizione, vernissage Post Card exhibition, curated by Riccardo Rizzerro and Sarah Staton, Trieste, Italy
Across RCA Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2025
Festus Sculpture Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
5 Artist 1 Love: 20th Anniversary, curated by Natalie Mayer and Darren Jordan, Art Gallery, Alberta, Edmonton, AB
New Routes: threads across space and time, Mitchell Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Monstrous & Tender, curated by Marilene Oliver, Fine Art Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Our Lives Our Journeys, Jabulani Arts Festival, curated by Elsa Robinson, Edmonton, AB
what we leave, what we take, curated by Lindsey Sharman, Art Gallery of Alberta. Edmonton, AB
2024
Sharp Teeth, BGSU Fine Art Centre Gallery, curated by Sanaa Humayun, Bowling Green, Ohio
Résonance, Château de La Napoule, curated by Natasha Clews Gallaway, Molly Nuanes and Nelcy Mercier, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France
Dragon Fried Rice, curated by Jordon Hon and Yihua Zhang, Edmonton, AB
Sharp Teeth, BGSU Fine Art Centre Gallery, curated by Sanaa Humayun, Bowling Green, Ohio
2023
Patch Portraits, TREX Southeast Travelling Exhibition, curated by Genevieve Farrell, AB
2022
Ornament and Crime, Stride Gallery, curated by Noor Bhangu, Calgary, AB
Snap at 40: Archival Showcase, Future Forwards, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Atlantic World Art Fair, Artsy, exhibiting with Gallery OCA, London
2021
the soil between plants, Latitude 53, curated by Making Space: Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet and Sanaa Humayun, Edmonton, AB
Amplify, Art Gallery @ 501, curated by Kris Miller, Sherwood Park, AB
Sometimes I Have These Moments, Stollery Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Edmonton Gallery District Diversity in Art Online Exhibition
5 Artists 1 Love - Black Every Day, Art Gallery of Alberta, curated by Lindsey Sharman and Natalie Mayer, Edmonton, AB
Skirts-A-Fire Visual Art Exhibit and Festival, curated by Stephanie Florence, Edmonton, AB
2020
Schmoozy, Latitude 53, curated by Michelle Schultz, Edmonton, AB
Breathing Room Grad Show Online Exhibition, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Castles of Butter, Lowlands Project Space, curated by Steven Teeuwsen, Edmonton, AB
5 Artist 1 Love, Art Gallery of Alberta, Scott Gallery and Jake’s Framing, curated by Elizabeth Hill, Natalie Mayer and Darren Jordan, Edmonton, AB
Making Space: 2020 in Review, Outdoor Exhibition, Edmonton, AB
2019
As Is, On Sight Auction, curated by the Visual Arts Student Association, Enterprise Square, Edmonton, AB
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS), curated by Joe Chirchirillo, NorthBennington, Vermont, USA
Becoming, North Main Gallery, curated by Anthony Cafritz, Salem, NY, USA
As if Matter Matters, Rutherford Library, curated by Royden Mills, Stephanie Jonsson, Cam Wallace, Edmonton AB
2018
Going Once Auction and Exhibition, Enterprise Square Gallery, curated by the Visual Arts
Student Association, Edmonton, AB
2017
Hope and Fear, Rutherford Library, curated by Royden Mills and Marliene Oliver, Edmonton AB
Residences
2026
2023
2022
2020
2019
Argo x RCA, Athens, Greece
Sculpture Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France
Gather Textiles, Edmonton, AB
Lowlands Project Space, Edmonton, AB
Young Artist Residency, Salem Art Works (SAW), Salem, NY, USA
Workshops & Talks
2025 “Our Lives Our Journeys” Workshop, Jabulani Arts Festival, Edmonton, AB2024 Artists of the Caribbean c
2024 Diaspora Panel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2023 “Material Exploration: A Way Home”, Artist Talk, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Living in Colour: Painting and Collage Workshop, The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse, Edmonton, AB Anti-Racism & Art: Afrofuturism and Black Liberation Painting and Collage Workshop, supported by Ribbon
Rouge and U of A Black Students Association, Edmonton, AB
STEPS CreateSpace Public Art Forum, Digital forum
2022 Artist Talk, Alberta University of Arts, Calgary, AB Digital Now: Future Artist Program, SNAP, Edmonton, AB Teen Night: Painting and Collage Workshop, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2021 TD Artist Collaboration Workshop, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton, AB
RBC Emerging Artist Apprenticeship, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton, AB
2020 Artist Talk, Lowlands Project Space, Edmonton, AB
2019 Artist Talk, North Main Gallery, Salem, NY, USA
Artist Talk, Union College, Albany, NY, USA
Representation of Blackness in the Arts in Edmonton Research Presentation by Mpoe Mogale, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, AB
Publications
2023 Patch Portraits with Michelle Sound, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition, Trex Southeast
Diversité feminine diversity (DFD), Women’s Museum of Canada
2021 Covid Collections by Stephanie Florence and Autumn Sjolie
Articles
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