About

Eric Rannestad (b. 1996 - Chester, CT) is an artist exploring the production of landscape through environmental models, economy, and visual culture. The work draws on the language of maps, forecasting models, capital flows, technical instruments, and other site-specific artifacts to explore themes of uncertainty, ground, and abstraction. Eric combines media that span excavated watercolor surfaces, arched sculptural components, time-based, and generative media: each a different cut in the interrelated forces that construct landscape, each offering a different register for locating oneself within these forces.

Eric recieved a Master of Design Studies (MDes) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he recieved the 2026 Domain Award, and received a BA in Studio Art and a BA in Economics from Whitman College. He has attended fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center and I-Park Foundation and residencies at Centrum, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Wassaic Project, and more. His work has exhibited at Chilli Gallery in London, The Emerson Center for the Arts in Montana, NADA NYC in New York, as well as featured in New American Paintings. His work is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Eric's projects in cartography and experience working with environmental groups across the American West are a significant influence in his art practice.