Sculptural art
Site-specific and integrated art
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Britt Ransom
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Digital / photography
Fabrication, including wood, metal, glass
Site-specificity determines materials used
Sticky, 2024, CNC carved foam, MDF supports, SLA 3D prints, oil barrels cast in Isomalt, intaglio prints. Exhibition at Louisiana State University Glassell Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA.
Feed a Frog, 2025, wood, laser cut acrylic, 10′ x 2.5′ x 3.5.’ Created as part of the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum Tough Art Residency.
Parallel Paths, 2020, Next Engine 3D scans, SLA resin prints bark beetle wood, custom laser cut holders, ultraviolet lights. Installation at Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
Suspended, 2022, stereolithographic 3D prints, brass, oak, digital archive prints, LED light, audio of cicadas. Installation at Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA.
Perot Teen Mural, 2014, vinyl installation of images captured with hand built microscopes. Created with the DMA/Perot Teen Advisory Council.
About the Artist
Britt Ransom (b. 1987, Lima, Ohio) is an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has received numerous awards, including the Heinz Creative Development Award, the Hopper Prize, and the Formlabs User Impact Award. Her residencies and fellowships include the New Museum’s NEW INC Year 10 Cohort, Joan Mitchell Center Residency, Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator (LACI) Residency, ZERO1 American Arts Incubator Fellowship, and The Arctic Circle Residency.
Ransom’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at spaces including Co-Prosperity (Chicago, IL), Glassell Gallery at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA), Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, MS), Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA), Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans, LA), Pitzer College Art Galleries (Claremont, CA), Honor Fraser (Los Angeles, CA), Royale Projects (Los Angeles, CA), Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), Schering Stiftung (Transmediale, Berlin), Missouri State University, Texas Woman’s University, University of Dallas, and the Chicago Artists Coalition. Ransom earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2011 and her BFA from The Ohio State University in 2008.
Britt Ransom’s practice examines the connections between humans, animals, and the environment through sculptures and installations developed with digital fabrication processes. Using 3D scanning, 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC milling, her work questions our shared ecosystems, climate collapse, and the ways we relate to other species.
Photo by Melissa Tran
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- Pittsburgh Children’s Museum Tough Art Residency, 2025
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
Yes
Teaching Artist
Yes, ages 5 and up
Joined the Directory
April 2026
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“I am interested in how work in the public realm can spark curiosity, invite learning, and create moments of joy through observation and, at times, immersion. I like to consider how art can be both accessible and thoughtful, offering new ways of seeing while remaining responsive to the people and places it inhabits.”
Britt Ransom
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
