Kathy Kranias is an artist and art historian based in Toronto. Kranias’ art practice encompasses ceramic sculpture, drawing and site-specific installations. Inspired by contemporary dance, she explores issues of body and gender, engaging allegories of female agency and protection.

Kathy Kranias’ work is exhibited internationally and 5 works from her Invisiblity Cloaks series (2018-19) were purchased for the Global Affairs Canada Visual Art Collection. Her ceramic sculptures were included in the 2020 exhibition A New Light: Canadian Women Artists at the Embassy of Canada Art Gallery, Washington D.C. Solo exhibitions include Matrilineal Hauntings at St. Michael’s College University of Toronto, Archetypes in Clay at the David Kaye Gallery, Toronto and Becoming The Persephone at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (ON, Canada). Publications about her work and practice have recently been featured in Ceramics: Art + Perception and The Globe and Mail.

Kathy Kranias served as studio faculty in the Craft and Design program at Sheridan College (2004-2012) and senior visual arts teacher with the Toronto District School Board (1990-1998). She holds a SSHRC funded Master’s Degree in Art History (2015, York University), a BEd Degree in Visual Arts (1990, University of Toronto), and a BFA Degree in Studio Art (1986, Concordia University, Montreal).

Kathy Kranias has guest lectured and presented conference papers on modern architectural stained glass in Canada, including the work of Marcelle Ferron, Sarah Hall, Yvonne Williams, Robert Jekyll and Eric Wesselow. She has contributed essays, articles and reviews in the field to many publications including The Journal of Modern Craft, Journal of Canadian Art History, Journal for the Society of the Study of Architecture in Canada, Studio: Craft and Design in Canada, Marcelle Ferron-Verre Fusionné (2024, Éditions Simon Blais), A Thousand Colours: Sarah Hall Glass (2017, Friesens), and Public Art in Glass (2020, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery), which received the 2021 Ontario Museum Association Award (OMA) for Excellence in Publications.

Kathy Kranias received the 2021 Lily Yung Memorial Award from Craft Ontario. She has received scholarships and funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship), the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.