Ramona Pratte is an artist currently based in Lawrence, Kansas. Her work sits at the intersection of time, decay, and rebirth, and asks if our human desire for control disrupts the interplay between them.
Born and raised in the midwest, she studied at the University of Kansas, focusing on painting and printmaking. She was the recipient of two Undergraduate Research Grants as well as the Lockwood Scholarship and Jane Voorhees Printmaking Scholarship. She graduated in 2017 with a BFA in Studio Art. Since then, she has shown her work in various Kansas City Galleries, including solo shows at Four Chapters gallery and the Leedy-Voulkos gallery.
EDUCATION
University of Kansas (2013-2017) BFA in Visual Art
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Untitled solo exhibition (Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center, Kansas City, MO) 2022
2023
Something Went Wrong (with Chesney Buck. Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center, Kansas City, MO) 2019
2019
Flood: an elegy, a fear (Four Chapters Gallery, Kansas City, MO) 2018
. . . and if you’re wrong . . (Artist and Craftsman Gallery, Kansas City, MO)
GRANTS/AWARDS
KU Undergraduate Research Grant (Department of Visual Art, University of Kansas) McGrath Fine Arts Scholarship (Department of Visual Art, University of Kansas)
Jane Voorhees Printmaking Scholarship (Department of Visual Art, University of Kansas) Lockwood Scholarship (Department of Visual Art, University of Kansas)
OTHER NOTABLE PROJECTS
When the Sun Rises (Short film director/producer, To debut at Stray Cat 2026).
Fossil Mammals from Turkey (Exhibit specialist/fabricator. Permanent exhibit at the KU Natural History Museum, Lawrence, KS)
House of the Stolen Sun (technical designer. Interactive exhibit at The White Schoolhouse, Lawrence, KS)