Meg Cranston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Meg Cranston

American artist

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1960

Place of Birth: Baldwin, New York, United States

Profession: artist, painter, sculptor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.