Guhapriya Ranganathan
Adjunct Faculty
Guhapriya (Gupi) Ranganathan is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher whose practice explores the intersection of art and science. Her work centers on seeing and visualizing complex ideas through mapping biological and sociological memories. Informed by a background in engineering, management, and fine arts, her broad experience shapes both her studio practice and how she teaches her students. She has taught as an adjunct faculty member at both Simmons University and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
From 2009 to 2011, Ranganathan was the Broad Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Her collaborative projects include Cultured Interactions: Evolving Landscape, a site-specific permanent installation at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. Additionally, her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally, and is held in numerous public, corporate, and private collections.
Education
- MFA in Painting and Printmaking, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
- BA, Simmons University
- MBA, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
- BE (Honors), National Institute of Technology Trichy
Research and/or Special Projects
Originating from her research as Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute on how the genome folds and unfolds as it moves, she co-authored the art-science paper Unfolding the Genome alongside Aiden Lab and Erez Lieberman Aiden. Published in 2021, the paper was selected as a journal exemplar for the Ground Works compendium by the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru).