Meg Cranston
Born (1960-09-26) September 26, 1960 (age 63)
EducationKenyon College, California Institute of the Arts
Known forConceptual art, multimedia art, text art, painting
AwardsJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Community Foundation Artist Grant, Architectural Foundation of American Art in Public Places Award, an Artadia Award, and a COLA Artist Grant

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.[1] 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.[2] She also attended the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1988.[3] She is currently the Chair of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.[4]

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.[1]

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,[5] 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.[6]

Meg Cranston lives and works in California.[7]

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.[8]

Reviews

Solo exhibitions

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2013

2012 - 2013

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1988

References

  1. ^ a b "Meg Cranston - Artists - Meliksetian | Briggs". www.meliksetianbriggs.com. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  2. ^ "Meg Cranston | Laguna Art Museum". Laguna Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  3. ^ a b "Meg Cranston - Longhouse Projects". Longhouse Projects. Archived from the original on 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  4. ^ "Meg Cranston". Otis College of Art and Design. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  5. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Meg Cranston".
  6. ^ "Meg Cranston | artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  7. ^ "Meg Cranston | artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  8. ^ "Meg Cranston | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. 2 June 2012. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  9. ^ JOHNSON, KEN (28 March 2003). "Meg Cranston -- 'Magical Death'". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  10. ^ Cranston, Meg (9 September 2008). "Critic's Guide". Frieze (117). Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  11. ^ Ollman, Leah (7 March 2016). "A scatter of slight gestures from Meg Cranston". L.A. Times Art and Culture. L.A. Times. Retrieved 15 June 2018.

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