About
Raneece Buddan is a Jamaican visual artist who resides in Treaty 6 territory, Amiswaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). She immigrated to Canada in 2015 and completed her BFA in Art and Design with Distinction at the University of Alberta in 2020. Raneece’s artwork has been exhibited throughout Alberta at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Gallery@501, Scott Gallery, Stride Gallery, Latitude 53, SNAP Gallery, and Stollery Gallery as well as, internationally through Artsy and in New York and Vermont. She has completed Artist Residencies in Edmonton, Alberta, Salem, New York and most recently in Mandelieu-La-Napoule, France.
Raneece’s artistic practice is an ongoing journey to self-discovery. It is an attempt to learn more about her cultural identity as a Jamaican woman reconnecting with her Afro and Indo-Caribbean ancestry. This is done through material exploration and textile research. She shows the beauty of merging these cultures while also addressing the generational loss of culture and ancestry as a result of historical and ongoing assimilation, slavery and indentured servitude in the Caribbean.
Raneece considers each piece a self-portrait. These are her hybridized paintings and sculptures that start from finding the figure in the material, her clay pots that combine the processes of the Ashante tribe in Ghana and those in India and her textiles inspired by blocking printing motifs and woven patterns from Nigeria, Ghana and India. Combined with incorporating themes of hair and skin complexions, she touches on the roles colourism and texturism have played in racial identity and beauty standards in Jamaican society and ethnic communities. This can be seen with the replacement of her skin with textiles as her new racial identifiers and the use of synthetic hair to represent the importance of hair across cultures.
As an interdisciplinary artist, Raneece finds joy in a well-rounded practice of oil painting, woodworking, clay sculpting, resin casting, printmaking and weaving.
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Solo Exhibitions
2022-2023
Desiderium, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, curated by Adam Whitford, Lethbridge, AB
2022
Blending Families through Cultural Textiles, Prairie Crocus, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
2022
De more yu luk, de less yu si, Stollery Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Group Exhibitions
2022
Ornament and Crime, Stride Gallery, curated by Noor Bhangu, Calgary, AB
2022
Snap at 40: Archival Showcase, Future Forwards, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2022
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
2021
Amplify, Art Gallery @ 501, curated by Kris Miller, Sherwood Park, AB
2021
Sometimes I Have These Moments, Stollery Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2021
Edmonton Gallery District Diversity in Art Online Exhibition
2021
5 Artists 1 Love - Black Every Day, Art Gallery of Alberta, curated by Lindsey Sharman and
Natalie Mayer, Edmonton, AB
2021
Skirts-A-Fire Visual Art Exhibit and Festival, curated by Stephanie Florence, Edmonton, AB
2020
Schmoozy, Latitude 53, curated by Michelle Schultz, Edmonton, AB
2020
Breathing Room Grad Show Online Exhibition, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2020
Castles of Butter, Lowlands Project Space, curated by Steven Teeuwsen, Edmonton, AB
2020
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
2019
As Is, On Sight Auction, curated by the Visual Arts Student Association, Enterprise Square,
Edmonton, AB
2019
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS), curated by Joe Chirchirillo, North Bennington, Vermont, USA
2019
Becoming, North Main Gallery, curated by Anthony Cafritz, Salem, NY, USA
2019
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, Workshops & Talks
2023
Artist-in-Residence, La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France
2023
Living in Colour: Painting and Collage Workshop, The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse, Edmonton, AB
2023
Anti-Racism & Art: Afrofuturism and Black Liberation Painting and Collage, Workshop, supported by Ribbon Rouge and U of A Black Students Association, Edmonton, AB
2023
STEPS CreateSpace Public Art Forum, Digital Forum
2022
Art Now Artist Talk, University of Lethbridge
2022
Artist Talk, Alberta University of Arts, Calgary, AB
2022
Artist in Residence, Gather Textiles, Edmonton, AB
2022
Digital Now: Future Artist Program, SNAP, Edmonton, AB
2022
Teen Night Collaging Workshop, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2021
TD Artist Collaboration Workshop, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton, AB
2021
RBC Emerging Artist Apprenticeship, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton, AB
2020
Artist Talk, Lowlands Project Space, Edmonton, AB
2019
Artist Talk, Union College, Albany, NY
2019
Artist Talk, North Main Gallery, Salem, NY
2019
Young Artist in Residence, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2019
Representation of Blackness in the Arts in Edmonton Research Presentation by Mpoe Mogale,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Education
2016-2020
The University of Alberta, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design
Awards & Grants
2021
Edmonton Arts Council's (EAC) Equity and Access Grants for Individuals & Collectives
2018
Universiade ‘83 Scholarship
Member of the Following Organizations
2016 - 2020
Visual Arts Student Association
2020 - present
Making Space
2023 - present
Ribbon Rouge Foundation Artist Collective
