Frank Ragano

Frank Ragano began his artistic career as a dancer in Gainesville Florida in the early 1970s. Moving to NYC in 1980 he joined Lee Nagrin's SkyFish Company, an experimental dance theater troupe. In 1986 the company won the Village Voice Obie for Best New American Play.

Simultaneously working as a sculptor, Frank exhibited his first installation, "Trinity at the Waterpool", as part of a group show held in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York in 1986. The show included such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat.

From 1990-94 he studied at The New School for Social Research in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program.

Frank moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1996. Since his arrival he has focused on integrating video into his sculpture and installations. Louis Grachos, former director of Site Santa Fe, has selected his work twice for shows at the Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos, New Mexico.