Meg Cranston (b. 1960 Baldwin, New York)  received a BA from Kenyon College in 1982, an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1986 and studied studio art at the the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, Netherlands, in 1988.  Selected exhibitions include the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Leo Koenig Gallery in New York.  Selected awards and grants include the Penny McCall Foundation, John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Architectural Foundation of Orange County, Art in Public Places Award, and City of Los Angeles Artists Award Grand. She is represented by The Happy Lion in Los Angeles. Meg Cranston lives and works in Venice, California.