Jet-te. Ranning (b. 1954)

After graduating from the School of Applied Arts in Copenhagen, she was the first-ever Dane to study at the School of Visual Arts i New York. Ranning's works have captured the attention of 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, which together lead to polychromatic works characterised by 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..