Nan Ring

Nan Ring is a visual artist, poet and author. In her artwork and writing, she focuses on ideas of vastness within the intimate, small moment. Ring received a Monmouth Museum Juror’s Award in their Annual Jured Exhibition, 2025, Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Fellowship Award, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Fellowship Award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship Award. She has been awarded numerous artist-in-residencies, including Hambidge, I-Park, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ucross Foundation, Djerrassi, Vermont Studio Center, MASSMoCA. and Millay Arts, among others. Her national art exhibitions include Monmouth Museum, The Painting Center, NYC, Susan Eley Gallery, Hudon, NY, and 14C Art Fair, NJ among others. Her poetry has been published on Gray Sparrow Press, About Place Journal, Mom Egg Review, and is included in the anthology "The Color Wheel", Terrapin Books. She was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Fund for Women Grant in Poetry, 2025. Ring wrote and illustrated the critically acclaimed memoir, Walking On Walnuts, Bantam, 1996. She earned her MFA in Painting from The University of the Arts, PA, and her BFA in Studio Art from Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts. She is co-director of the Hostetter Gallery in Basking Ridge, N.J. To learn more about Nan Ring, please visit nanringstudio.com or on Instagram @ring.nancy