Galerie Michael Janssen in Berlin

1960
born in Baldwin, New York

2004
Anonymous Was A Woman Award

2002
City of Los Angeles Artists Award Grand (COLA)

2001-2005
Professor at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

2000
Art in Public Places Award, Architectural Foundation of Orange County

1994
John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1993-98
Lecturer at Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

1990
Penny McCall Foundation Award

1989
New School of Social Research Faculty Development, New York

1988
Postgraduate Study at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

1987-2001
Senior Lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

1986
Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

1982
BA Study in Anthropologie, Kenyon College, Ohio

lives and works in Los Angeles, California


Solo Exhibitions

2009
Michaela Eichwald / Meg Cranston. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

2008
The Pleasure of Obvious Problems. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin - New Zealand
Every Dog in the Pound. Mercer Union, Toronto
Radiator. He Said/She Said, Chicago

2007
The Pleasure of Obvious Problems.Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

2006
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York

2005
Volcano, Trash and Ice Cream. The Happy Lion, Los Angeles
Rock Bottom. Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne

2003
Magical Death. ART Unlimited, ART34 BASEL
Magical Death. Gallery Leo Koenig Inc., New York
Recent Works. The Happy Lion, Los Angeles

2002
The Happy Lion, Los Angeles
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica

2000
Printed Matter, New York
Galerie Michael Kapinos, Berlin
1301PE, Los Angeles
Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts, New York

1999
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica

1998
Dogenhaus Projekte, Berlin

1997
Boesky & Callery, New York

1996
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica

1995
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
CBD Gallery, Sydney
Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels

1994
1301, Santa Monica
Icebox, Athens
Karsten Schubert Gallery Ltd., London

1993
Karsten Schubert Gallery Ltd., London
Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

1992
1301, Santa Monica

1991
Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Ohio
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
Ealan Wingate Gallery, New York

1990
Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles
Koury Wingate Gallery, New York

1989
Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles

1988
Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica


Group Exhibitions

2012
Made in L.A. 2012. Los Angeles Biennial, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA  
Paper does not blush. Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin 

2011
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA 

2010
Gallery Brandstrup Oslo  

2008
California Video. Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Parcours Interdit. Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2006
Oleon, Mary Younakof Galleri S.E, Bergen
Los Angeles Art Now. (with Erin Cosgrove, Meg Cranston, Monique Van Genderen, Patti
Rojani a.o.) I-20 Gallery, New York
KLF. (with Thomas Grünfeld, Julius Popp, Meg Cranston, Markus Huemer, Rachel The Hoeber, Richard Louderback, Jim McDowell, Desmond McVay, Earnest Merritt, Manuel Ocampo a.o.) 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles
Wonder and Horror of the Human Head. (with John Baldessari, Giolliosa Fuller, Julian Hoeber, Richard Louderback, Jim McDowell, Desmond McVay, Earnest Merritt, Manuel Ocampo a.o.) 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles

2005
10 Years!. Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
A Walk to Remember, LACE, Los Angeles
Echo/Anti Echo. (with Cindy Bernard, Sam Durant, David Hatcher, Jill Miller, Jason Rhoades) Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin

2004
Paper. Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica
Me, Myself 7 I. University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Florida

2003
Golden. (with JP Munro, Ry Rocklen, Thaddeus Strode, Rob Thom) Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne

2002
Meg Cranston and Jeffery Vallance. Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
COLA. Individual Artist Fellowships. Japanese American National Museum,
Los Angeles
Heads or Tails. Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris

2001
Structures of Knowledge. Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Featherweight. Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

2000
The L.A. Scene. Numark Gallery, Washington
Focus on Pain, on Destruction, Power, Death. Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art, New York L.A. – ex Performances. Museum Villa Stuck, Theater im Marstall, Munich

1999
A Girl Like You. Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Painting: Fore and Aft. ACME, Los Angeles
Art/Journalism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
Life is Elsewhere. Theoretical Events Gallery, Mailand / Theoretical Events Gallery, Naples

1998
Deep Storage - Arsenal der Erinnerung. Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf / P.S.1, New York / Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life: The Judy and Stuart Spence
Collection. Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Unreal Person: Portraiture in the Digital Age. Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach

1997
Display: An International Exhibition of Painting. Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall,
Copenhagen
L.A. Drawings. Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
Performa 97. Performance Festival, Berlin

1996
It's Only Rock and Roll. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio / Lakeview
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois / Virginia Beach Center for the Arts,
Virginia / Tacoma Art Museum, Washington / Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida / Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California / Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix / Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida / Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee /Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Power of Suggestion: Narrative and Notation in Contemporary Drawing. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1995
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection: As Revealed by Kim Dingle. Santa Monica
Museum, Santa Monica
From L.A. With Love. Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
I Love What I am Doing. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
Biblio Vertigo. Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago
Meg Cranston, Chris Wilder. Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

1994
LOS ANGELES: Mind Quakes. Breda Fotographia '94, Breda
Arrested Childhood. Center for Contemporary Art, Miami
[cut] - Los Angeles - 90'ernes. Kunstscene, Konstforeningen, Copenhagen
I Myself & Me. The Interart Center, New York
Jenseits von Eden (East of Eden). Museum Schloss Mosigkau, Dessau
The Media & Art Exhibition '94. Magic Media Company, Hurth

1993
Paper Trails: The Eidectic Image, Contemporary American Works on Paper. Krannert Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Into The Lapse. Karsten Schubert Gallery Ltd., London / Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin
Influx. Gallery 400, The University of Illinois, Chicago
Space of Time: Contemporary Art from the Americas. America Society, New York Kontext Kunst. Künstlerhaus Graz, Neue Galerie am Landsmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Open '93: Emergency, Aperto, '93. Venice Biennial, Venice

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

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

1990
I to Eye. Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Spirit of our Times. Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara
Meg Cranston, Sarah Seager, Thaddeus Strode. Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart
CologneShow. Galerien Grunert, Hetzler, Sprüth a.o., Cologne

1989
Hand Made: The Nature of the Object. Bard College, New York
Sculpture. Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York

1988
Girl's Night Out: Femininity and Masquerade. (curated by John Baldessari) The New Museum of Art, New York and Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles

1987
The New Who's Who. Hoffman Borman Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 1/2. Loughelton Gallery, New York
Breaking the Looking Glass (East). Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Breaking the Looking Glass (West). Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

1986
TV Generations. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

The Travel Grants Fund for Artist (Mexico), Arts international, NEA

SOLO EXHIBITION

2013
John Baldessari & Meg Cranston - Keep it simple. Keep it fresh. Michael Janssen Gallery, Singapore

2005
Rock Bottom. Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, June-July 2005

GROUP EXHIBITION

2012
Made in L.A. 2012. Los Angeles Biennial, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Jack Helgesen Family Collection / Archeology of the Image. Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen

2005
10 Years!. Groupshow, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, October-December 2005