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