Artist Statement/ Biography

Whitney Ramage is an interdisciplinary visual artist, curator, and arts organizer based in Brooklyn New York. Her art practice is a string of experiments. Philosophical and poetic, the artwork probes into theories of existence and non-existence, embodiment and disembodiment. Through a broad range of media Ramage dissects the shifting relation to our irreducible phenomenological bodies. Recently she have been introducing elements of regret, intergenerational and collective trauma. Her practice takes the form of sculptures, performative videos, installations, photographs, drawings and whatever else the work demands. With a sense of impassioned futility and humor, Ramage sift through the triumphs and indignities of being human and bump up against the great pain and privilege of inhabiting a female body.

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Whitney Ramage is visual artist, curator, and arts organizer based in Brooklyn New York. Having been raised in an economically depressed rural community, Ramage has spent the past few years mobilizing art to combat the hopelessness she witnessed in rural America. To this end she founded 77ART in 2018; a grassroots nonprofit organization aimed at building bridges between early-career urban artists in need of workspace and the artistically underserved community in her hometown of Rutland Vermont. Ramage received her MFA in Fine Art Sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2014 and her undergraduate degree in Sculpture from Castleton University in 2010. Ramage has exhibited in New York, Miami, Boston and elsewhere and participated in artist residencies such as the Studios at Mass MoCA, The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.