Award-winning Canadian artist Kathy Kranias lives and works in Toronto, and exhibits widely. Kranias’ recent exhibitions include a 2024 solo show Matrilineal Hauntings at Schneider Haus Museum National Historic Site in Canada, A New Light: Canadian Women Artists at the Embassy of Canada Art Gallery in Washington D.C., and Essence at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Kranias’ work has been featured in the publications ESPACE Art Actuel, Ceramics: Art + Perception, Studio: Craft and Design in Canada, and The Globe and Mail. Her work is held in the major public art collections of Global Affairs Canada and The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, in addition to many private collections across Canada, US, and France.

Kranias’ practice is deeply rooted in the material processes of clay and explores female agency, myth and history, often reinterpreting the ancient mythologies of her Greek heritage. Kranias holds a B.F.A. degree in Studio Art from Concordia University, a B.Ed. degree in Visual Arts from University of Toronto, and a M.A. degree in Art History from York University. She served as studio faculty in the Craft & Design program at Sheridan College, Canada (2004-2018) and senior visual arts teacher with the Toronto District School Board (1990-1998).

Kranias is a leading researcher on modern architectural art glass in Canada and has contributed exhibition catalogue essays to 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). Kranias has presented conference papers and contributed essays and reviews in the field to Journal of Canadian Art History, Journal of Modern Craft, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, and Studio: Craft and Design in Canada, among others.