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M.F.A, California Institute of the Arts: sculpture, painting

Meg Cranston has shown internationally since 1988. She has been the recipient of a New School of Social Research Faculty Development Grant, an artist grant from the Penny McCall Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a faculty research grant from the Center for Asian American Studies at UCLA. Cranston's work often combines text and imagery from popular culture.

Meg Cranston is exhibiting "Recent Works" at The Happy Lion in Chinatown for the month of December. Now you can see installation views from "Recent Works", please click here.

BORN:

Baldwin, New York, 1960

Lives and works in Venice, California

EDUCATION:

California Institute of the Arts M.F.A.; Studio
Art, 1986

Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, The Netherlands Studio Art;1988

Kenyon College B.A.; Anthropology/Sociology 1982

AWARDS AND GRANTS:

2001 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist’s Grants, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs

2000 Architectural Foundation of America, Art in Public Places Award

1994 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1990 Penny McCall Foundation (Artist Grant)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

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, 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.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2002 C.O.L.A. Awards Exhibition, Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles Heads or Tails, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris.

2001 Featherweight, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
L.A. Scene, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C

2000 L.A. EX., Marstell, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Munich, Germany Focus on Pain, on Destruction, Power, Death, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art, New York, New York.

1999 Life is Elsewhere, Theoretical Events (Larner, Baldessari, McCarthy, Ruscha, Cranston) Milan 54 x 54x 54 MOCA, London Art/Journalism curated by Larry Rickles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery On Painting (On the Edge of Painting) , Sydney college of Art, Sydney

1998 The Unreal Person: Portraiture in the Digital Age, Huntington Beach Art Center Life Lessons , Laguna Beach Museum of Art

1997 Display: Painting International, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen(catalog) Deep Storage: Haus der Kunst, Munich(traveling) (catalog) Someone Else With My Fingerprints:; David Zwirner Gallery, New York (traveling) (catalog) Sunshine & Noir (video segment), Louisiana Museum, Denmark (catalog) L. A. Drawings (Cranston, McCarthy, Rhoades, Pettibon), Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands Performa 97, Performance festival organized by Michael Kapinos, various venues, Berlin, Germany

1996 The Power of Suggestion; Narrative and Notation in Contemporary Drawing,, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalog)

1995 Meg Cranston, Chris Wilder , Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia Biblio Vertigo, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago I Love What I am Doing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago It’s Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (traveling)

1994 The Media & Art Exhibition ‘94, Magic Media Company, Hurth, Germany Jenseits von Edan (East of Eden), Museum Schloss Mosigkau, Germany I Myself&Me, The Interart Center, New York

1994 Guest Room: Bulloch, Cranston, Seager, Strode, Art & Public, Geneva [cut] - Los Angeles - 90’ernes Kunstscene, Konstforeningen, Copenhagen Arrested Childhood, Center for Contemporary Art, Miami LOS ANGELES: Mind Quakes, Breda Fotographia ‘94 , Breda, Netherlands

1993 Open ‘93: Emergency, Aperto, ‘93, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice , Italy (catalog)
Kontext Kunst, Kunstlerhaus, Neue Galele am Landsmuseum Joannet, Graz, Austria (catalog) (German)

1993 Space of Time: Contemporary Art from the Americas, Americas Society, New York (traveling) (catalog) influx, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago Into The Lapse, Karsten Schubert Gallery Ltd., London , Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin,(traveling video exhibition) (catalog) Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image, Contemporary American Works on Paper, Krannert Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (catalog)

1992 Helter Skelter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalog) Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York (catalog)
Untitled, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
Histories, Galerie Karin Schorm, Vienna (catalog)
120 Minuten! Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
Flux Attitudes, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1991 Facts and Rumors, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (catalog)
Korper und Korper, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Tres Instalaciones, Galeria Sloane Racotta, Mexico City (catalog) When Objects Dream and Talk in Their Sleep, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York The Lick of the Eye, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles

1990 The Koln Show, Galleries Grunert, Hetzler, Spruth et.al. (catalog) Meg Cranston. Sarah Seager, Thaddeus Strode, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart Spirit of our Times, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

1989 Sculpture, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York Hand Made: The Nature of the Object, Bard College, New York I to Eye, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

1988 Girl’s Night Out: Femininity and Masquerade, The New Museum of Art, New York An Exhibition Curated by John Baldessari, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles

1987 Breaking the Looking Glass (West), Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles Breaking the Looking Glass (East) Holly Solomon Gallery, New York The New Who’s Who, Hoffman/Borman Gallery, Los Angeles

1986 T.V. Generations, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, (catalog)

PUBLIC PROJECTS:

2002 Public Art Work, commissioned by Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department for the Will and Ariel Durant Branch Library, Hollywood.

1999 Public Art Work, commissioned by CIM associates for the City of Brea, California

1995 PublicArt Work , commissioned by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority for the Metro Green Line Norwalk Station completed 1995

PERFORMANCES:

2001 Woman Who Would Play Me If I paid Them, Goldman Tevis Gallery Los Angeles, Written by Meg Cranston, various performers

2000 Dental Physiognomy, Venetia Kapernakas Fine Arts, New York, performed by Meg Cranston Long Story Short, text, sound and video performance works written and
performed by Meg Cranston, Marstell Theater, Bayerisches
Staatsschauspiel, Munich, Germany Life Death Misc., music arranged by Meg Cranston, Villa Stuck, Munich
Good Morning Evil Genius, text and image by Meg Cranston, Galerie Michael Kapinos, Berlin

1999 Life Death Misc., music/sculpture, music arranged by Meg Cranston performed by various artists.

1995 God Love the Tragic Artist, Meg Cranston on the Life of Marvin Gaye, CBD Gallery, Sydney

1997 God Love the Tragic Artist, Meg Cranston on the Life of Marvin Gaye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1998 God Love the Tragic Artist, Meg Cranston on the Life of Marvin Gaye, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art,Rotterdam

BOOKS BY THE ARTIST:

Library Book, (32 pages), 1301 publisher, 1993, second edition, 1995
As I Told You, (48 pages), Marc Richards Gallery , publisher, 1989
LAMB, images by John Baldessari, story by Meg Cranston, Instituto d’Arte Moderna, Valencia Spain, publisher, 1989 (English and Spanish editions)
The Russian Songbooks, (32 pages), Jan van Eyck Akademie, publisher, 1988
Silent Night, portfolio of twelve serigraph prints with text by Meg Cranston, Freeman Editions, Los Angeles, publisher, 1991

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2001 Martha Schwendener, New York Reviews, Artforum, March 2001 Andrew Gellatly, L.A. -ex Performances, Reine Cantz, Munich

1999 Gianna Carutenuto, Meg Cranston, Art Issues Sept/Oct. Doug Harvey, Art Top Ten, L.A. Weekly, Dec. 31

1998 Simone Dattenberger, Rosa Luxembrug in Konigsblau, Muncher Merkur, February 3, 1998

1997 Nico Israel, New York Reviews, Artforum, Summer,1997
Vincent Katz, Art Paper, May, 1997 (English and French)
Monique van Genderen, Reading the Artist Meg Cranston, Dialogue Magazine, July, 1997

1995 David Pagel, Meg Cranston: Is That All There Is?, Art & Text pp. 39-41
Ingrid Schaffner, Deep Storage:On The Art of Archiving, Frieze, Summer, 1995
De tragische zelfkant van Marvin Gaye, DeMorgen, April 28, 1995 (Brussels)

1994 Jahresing 41 : Jarbuch fur moderne Kunst,(Yearbook for Modern Art),Verlag Silke Schreiber (German and English)
Schneider, Christiane, Was Wirklich Zahlt, Elle magazine (German), January 1994
Pagel, David, Self- Containment: Meg Cranston, Los Angeles Times, Thursday, February 10
Levin, Kim, The Village Voice, January 4, 1994
Searle, Adrian, Time Out, 15 -22 July
List Henrik, Kusten bag Kulissen, Berlingske Tidenke, 19 March
LaBelle, Charles, Home Alone: Meg Cranston at 1301, ArtWeek vol 25 No.8 April 21
Arnold Adler, Art is buzzword at station, Norwalk Herald American May 27, 1995

1993 Searle, Adrian, Meg Cranston, Michael Landy Time Out, London, No.1175 February 24 -March 3
Archer, Michael, Meg Cranston, Karsten Schubert Ltd., Artforum, May
Private Specter project by Meg Cranston, publicsfear, Vol. 1: No 2, Spring
Schneider, Christiane. Identiteit per kubieke meter: Een interview met
Meg Cranston, (interview) Metropolis, No.4 Summer
Restaurant,Galerie Marc Jancou, Publisher

1992 Pagel, David, Art Reviews, Los Angeles Times, Thursday, September 24
Heyler, Joanne, Reviews, Flash Art, Vol. XXV: No 167, November/December
1992 Pagel, David, Reviews , Forum International, No.15 November/December
Bornstein, Lisa. Art Scene, The Upper West Side Resident, April 20
1992 Pedersen, Victoria, Scene and Heard, April 28

1991 Koether, Jutta, Pride and Prejudice, Artscribe, October
1991 Pagel, David, Christmas On Earth: Meg Cranston’s Objects and Installations, Arts, Summer
Pagel, David, Bricollage and I (interview) Bomb, Spring
Levin, Kim, Choices, The Village Voice, March 27
Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, March 25

1990 Faust, Gretchen, Arts, October
Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, May 18
Wood, Joe, Choices, The Village Voice, May 5
Pagel, David, Arts, January
Dogu, Hikmet, Art Documentation (book review), Fall
Princenthal, Nancy, Print Collectors Newsletter, (book review), July/August
Hoffberg, Judy, Umbrella, (book review),

1989 Spector, Buzz, Art Issues, December
Spector, Buzz, Twice Told Tales, College Art Association Journal, Fall
LaPalma, Maria, Artweek, October
Knight, Christopher, Portrait Comes Out of the Closet Los Angeles Herald
Examiner, September 29

1988 Anderson, Michael, Art in America, September
Frank, Peter, L.A. Weekly,September 28
Dean, Robert, Artforum, May
Curtis, Cathy, Los Angeles Times, February 19

1987 Conal, Robert, L.A. Weekly, January 16
Cyr, Annette, 108, An East Village Weekly, January

RELATED EXPERIENCE TEACHING:

2001-2002 Adjunct Professor & Program Coordinator of Theory as Practice Program,Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

2000-2002 Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts Department, Otis College of Art and Design

1993-2000 Senior Lecturer, Fine Arts Department, Otis College of Art and Design

1987-1992 Lecturer, Liberal Studies Department, Otis College of Art and Design

1993-1998 Lecturer, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

EDITORIAL:

1989-1990 Reviews Editor, Artcoast

1987-1989 Editor, JOURNAL: A Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art

1986 Assistant Managing Editor, JOURNAL: A Contemporary Art Magazine

PUBLISHED WRITING:

2002 Bird, catalog essay for Naked Came the Stranger: Rita McBride, Lichtenstein Museum, Vaduz

2001 Haunted By The Ghost: Jack Goldstein Then and Now, (feature) ArtText , Nov Dec. 2001

1999 Deploy All Monsters, feature article on Mike Kelley, Raygun, April, 1999

1999 John Baldessari: Many Worthwhile Aspects, catalog essay, Schrimer Mosler publisher, Germany (English and German)

1989 John Baldessari, Interview magazine

CURATORIAL:

2002-2003 100 Artists See God, sponsored by Independent Curators International, New York, traveling various venues. Meg Cranston, John Baldessari, co-curators, catalog edited by Meg Cranston.

1991 Blind Love, Krieger/Landau Gallery, Santa Monica. Meg Cranston curator. Catalog with essay by Meg Cranston