Andrew Ranville, born 1981 in Michigan, USA lives and works in London, United Kingdom since 2006, receiving his MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. His installations, sculptures, photographs and films explore ideas related to site-specificity as well as the viewer's interaction with the work. An uneasy balance between formal and functional aspects of his work often elicits those interactions. He often conveys these ideas using ecologically sensitive methods which communicate notions of sustainability and resilience.

Ranville recently exhibited at the 4th Marrakech Biennale in Morocco. In 2011 and 2012 his Seven Summits project involved summiting the seven mountains over 4000 meters in the Western High Atlas range twice. He extracted a stone from the absolute peak of each mountain and transported them to Marrakech to be presented as part of a large architectural installation. This temporary installation -- made from locally-sourced Atlas Cedar -- was created and displayed on the roof of the Théâtre Royal. The trek to the summits was repeated after the closing of the biennale in June 2012, wherein Ranville restored the stones to their exact original locations.

Rabbit Island is a remote, 90-acre, forested island located in Lake Superior, Michigan. In the summer of 2011, Ranville lived and worked on the island for over a month developing the Rabbit Island Artist Residency program. As principle artist-in-residence he returned to the island for two months in the summer of 2012, creating new work for the solo exhibition No Island is a Man which ran from September-December 2012 in the DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University. A catalogue and limited-edition artifact was published with the exhibition. Ranville also delivered an artist's talk at the university.

In addition to being a visiting artist at various schools and universities Ranville works part-time as an assistant professor, most recently at Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury, England. Ranville's work has been exhibited internationally and installations of his work can be found or have been shown in countries including Australia, China, Finland, Morocco, Spain, UK and the USA. His work has been published in various art magazines and journals.

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