Kathy Kranias is an award winning Canadian artist and art historian based in Toronto. Her art practice is deeply rooted in the material processes of clay and engages narratives of female agency drawn from her personal experiences and Greek mythology. Kranias’ sculptures have been widely exhibited in A New Light: Canadian Women Artists at the Embassy of Canada Art Gallery, D.C. in 2020 and Essence at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo in 2023. Kranias’ 2024 solo exhibition Matrilineal Hauntings toured to Schneider Haus National Historic Site, Canada. Her early solo exhibitions include Becoming The Persephone at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (ON, Canada) and Archetypes in Clay at the David Kaye Gallery (Toronto, Canada). Publications about her work have been featured in ESPACE Art Actuel, Ceramics: Art + Perception, Studio: Craft and Design in Canada, and The Globe and Mail, among others. Kranias’ work is held in the public art collections of Global Affairs Canada and The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery. Kranias served as studio art faculty in the Craft and Design program at Sheridan College (2004-2018) and as senior visual arts teacher with the Toronto District School Board (1990-1998).

Kranias has written texts for many publications on Canadian art, including Marcelle Ferron: verre fusionné/fused glass (2024, Éditions Simon Blais), Public Art in Glass (2020, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery) and A Thousand Colours: Sarah Hall Glass (2017, Friesens). She has contributed essays and reviews in the field to Journal of Canadian Art History, Journal of Modern Craft, Journal for the Society of the Study of Architecture in Canada, and Studio: Craft and Design in Canada, among others.