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Britt Ransom is an artist whose practice probes the lines between human, animal, and environmental relationships through sculpture and installations that are made using digital fabrication processes. Ransom’s work is systematic both in construction and in concept, often a direct reflection of observed microcosms found at the surface of our feet, developed in the web of a digital mesh, and made to explore the braided entanglements between ourselves and the other species of plants and animals with whom we share space.

Ransom is the recipient of the Heinz Endowment Creative Development award, Joan Mitchell Center Residency, Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator (LACI) Residency, and the ZERO1 American Arts Incubator. Her work has been shown most recently at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge), The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans) Ohr-O’Keefe Museum (Biloxi), Honor Fraser (Los Angeles), Royale Projects (Los Angeles), and Schering Stiftung (Transmediale, Berlin).

Her writing has been published in Antennae (2024), In and Out of View: Art and the Dynamics of Circulation, Suppression, and Censorship (2021), Leonardo Journal published by MIT Press (2019), The 3D Additivist Cookbook (2016), and The Routledge Handbook on Biology in Art, Architecture, and Design, Routledge Press Essay (2016).

Ransom was the SIGGRAPH Studio and Art Gallery Chairs in 2017 and 2019. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Emma S. and Reverdy C. Ransom Foundation and Freedom to Grow Legacy Center in New Orleans. She received her BFA from The Ohio State University in Art and Technology (2008) and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Electronic Visualization / New Media (2011).