After graduating from the School of Industrial Design in Copenhagen (now the Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation), Jette L. Ranning went on to become the first-ever Danish student at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Ranning’s works have struck a chord with an international audience and feature in several major art collections both in Denmark and abroad, including: the Americas Collection (Miami, USA), Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden), Malmö Konstmuseum (Sweden), Artothek (Cologne, Germany), the New Carslberg Foundation, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Vejle Art Museum and Fyns Kunstmuseum.
Ranning’s paintings interweave figurative and abstract elements in serenely constructed layers of oil, acrylic and marble dust, the result of which is polychromatic works with a uniquely transparent lightness. In terms of motif, her works are ornamental, organic and graphic.
In 2012, Ranning received the prestigious Niels Wessel Bagge Art Foundation’s Honorary Award at Louisiana Museum.