Randi Renate was born ‘en caul,’ intact inside the amniotic sac, in San Antonio, TX. Her scientific background in biology and oceanography informs her current artistic research. Operating across installation, sculpture, and an art-science podcast, her artwork involves a choreographing of bodies within a sculptural framework to conduct her research on how things are interwoven. 

Randi received a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014 and moved to Berlin where she maintained a studio and artist-run project space, TRACE. She is a 2020 MFA graduate of the Sculpture Department at the Yale School of Art. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships including Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY, Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island, NY, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE, Fountainhead in Miami, FL, and Santa Fe Art Institute in Santa Fe, NM. Randi Renate has shown both internationally and nationally, with solo and group exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY, and ROCKELMANN& and Galerie im Turm in Berlin, DE among others. Her 2021 permanent public sculpture, “blue is the atmospheric refraction I see you through,” at the Adirondack History Museum, was made in part by the 2021 New York State Council of the Arts DEC Community Arts Grant and featured in Interior Design Magazine. Her most recent public sculpture in NYC for the 2022 Socrates Annual exhibition “Sink or Swim Climate Futures.” Randi also produces the podcast CORALESCENCE: conversations highlighting the connection between art and science. These episodes are “studio visits” she conducts with scientists and other researchers in their fields, exploring a broad range of topics like coral conservation, neuroscience, cosmology and beyond. 

As an individual who explores the world spatially, Randi has interests that lie in between architectural memory (embodied and dissociated), subaqueous states (psychic and physical), and allocentric entanglement (human and non-human). Her diverse, large-scale architectonic structures agitate an investigation on the somatic and cognitive ways of understanding our embodied being-in-the-world.

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