Meg Cranston facts for kids

Meg Cranston (born 1960) is an American artist who works in sculpture and painting. She is also a writer.

Early life and education

Cranston was born in Baldwin, New York. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology from Kenyon College in Ohio in 1982. She received an MFA in Studio Art from California Institute of the Arts in 1986. She also attended the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1988.

Work

Although she often takes personal attributes or historical events as a starting point, Cranston's work equally deals with the formal language of art and the role of the artist in helping us see the world in new ways.

She is currently the chair of fine arts at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

She has exhibited internationally since 1988. In 1992 she was part of the Helter Skelter exhibition at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and showed at the 1993 Biennale di Venezia.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a New School of Social Research Faculty Development Grant, an artist grant from the Penny McCall Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a faculty research grant from the Center for Asian American Studies at UCLA, Architectural Foundation of America, an Artadia Award, an ab Art in Public Places Award, and a C.O.L.A. Individual Artist's Grant from Los Angeles Cultural Affairs.

Meg Cranston lives and works in California.

Reviews

• ART IN REVIEW; Meg Cranston -- 'Magical Death'
• Meg Cranston in Frieze Magazine
• A scatter of slight gestures from Meg Cranston

Solo exhibitions

2016

• Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles

2015

• Kunstverein Heilbronn, Berlin

2013

• Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin

2012 - 2013

• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2007

• Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
• Kapinos Galerie, Berlin (with Peter Robinson)

2006

• Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York

2005

• Museum for Contemporary Art, Siegen, Germany
• Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
• Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles

2003

• Leo Koenig Gallery, New York

2002

• Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
• Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles

2001

• Goldman Tevis Gallery, Los Angeles

2000

• Galerie Michael Kapinos, Berlin, Germany
• Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art, New York 1301PE, Los Angeles Printed Matter Inc., New York, New York

1999

• Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica

1998

• Kunstverein Leipzig, Projektgalerie Elsterpark
• Galerie Praz de La Vallade, Paris Dogenhaus Projekt, Berlin
• Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

1997

• Callery & Boesky Gallery, New York

1996

• Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1995

• Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels CBD Gallery, Sydney, Australia Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

1994

• Karsten Schubert Gallery Ltd., London Icebox, Athens, Greece 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1993

• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalog)
• Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany Galerie Marc Joncou, Zurich Karsten Schubert Gallery Ltd., London

1992

• 1301, Santa Monica, California

1991

• Ealan Wingate Gallery, New York Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College

1990

• Koury/Wingate Gallery, New York Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles

1989

• Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles

1988

• Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (catalogue), Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles