Meg Cranston is an artist who works in sculpture and painting as well as a writer. She has exhibited internationally since 1988. She received and M.F.A in Studio from California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

 in 1986 and a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology in 1982. She also attended the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1988. She is currently the Chair of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design

Otis College of Art and Design

Otis College of Art and Design is an art and design college in Los Angeles, California.The school's programs, accredited by WASC and National Association of Schools of Art and Design, include four-year BFA degrees in illustration, fine arts, graphic design, architecture, landscape design, interior...

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She has been 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

Guggenheim Fellowship

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, a faculty research grant from the Center for Asian American Studies at UCLA, Architectural Foundation of America, ab Art in Public Places Award, and a C.O.L.A. Individual Artist’s Grant from Los Angeles Cultural Affairs.

Solo exhibitions

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
  Rosamund Felsen Gallery
  Rosamund Felsen Gallery is an American art gallery that has been involved in and has influenced the art community in Los Angeles, California since the late seventies...
  
  , 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, CA

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, CA

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.

External links

• Meg Cranston Gallery
• United Divas
• Walking in Place: Meg Cranston
• Meg Cranston, Review by Diane Calder
• An Interest in Life, an exhibition curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston
• New York Times ART IN REVIEW: Meg Cranston--"Magical Death"