Rana Young is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. Rana holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where she was an Othmer Fellow and a BFA in Studio Art from Portland State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as published online by Hyperallergic, VICE, Huffington Post, British Journal of Photography, and The New York Times. Kris Graves Projects (Queens, NY) published her first monograph, The Rug’s Topography, in 2019.