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Ransome graduated from Pratt Institute and retired as a tenured professor from the School of Visual Performing Arts at Syracuse University to pursue a full-time studio art career. He received his MFA in Studio Arts from Lesley University. Ransome’s artwork centers on his African American lineage, which is traced back to sharecroppers of the American South who emigrated to Northern cities along the East Coast during the Great Migration.
He has had several solo exhibits including Up South, The Story of the Great Migration at Sage College’s Opalka Gallery in Albany, NY in 2023. Harmony of Difference at Alpha Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts in the fall of 2022 and A Bend in the Road at DAG Gallery + Studios at Golden Belt and I Am Who You See I Am at the Woodstock Museum Artists & Association and A Nation of Small Folks at the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC in the Fall of 2023.
Ransome’s works have been a part of group exhibitions at The Sigal Museum Easton, PA, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) Museum of Art in Winston-Salem, NC and CLADOGRAM: 2ND at the Katonah Museum’s International Juried Biennial” in New York. Ransome was one of 35 artists selected from a total applicant pool of 423 artists to exhibit in the 2023 Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial exhibition and the Visual Art Center of New Jersey’s exhibit “Claiming the Narrative” in 2022. More recently, The Weatherspoon’s 47th presentation of Art on Paper. The exhibition features the work of artists who demonstrate the breadth of ways in which one can deploy the humble medium of paper to extraordinary depths.
A 2022 Pollock- Krasner foundation grantee, Ransome was awarded the Hudson Valley Artist Purchase Award from the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, New York. Along with a six-week residency this past spring at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC and a 4-week artist residency in Key West beginning in 2024.
