Kathy Kranias is a Canadian artist, art historian, and recipient of the 2021 Lily Yung Memorial Award from Craft Ontario. Kranias’ art practice is deeply rooted in the material properties and processes of clay, and inspired by contemporary dance. She handbuilds her sculptures to explore movement, the body and myth, engaging narratives of female agency and protection.

Kathy Kranias’ sculptures are widely exhibited and were featured in A New Light: Canadian Women Artists at the Embassy of Canada Art Gallery (Washington D.C.) and Essence at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (Waterloo, Canada). Five of her Invisiblity Cloaks were acquired by the Global Affairs Canada Visual Art Collection in 2019. Kranias’ solo exhibitions include Matrilineal Hauntings at Schneider Haus National Historic Site (Kitchener, Canada), 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 exhibitions and art practice have recently been featured in ESPACE Art Actuel, Ceramics: Art + Perception, Studio: Craft and Design in Canada, and The Globe and Mail, among others.

Kathy Kranias has written for numerous publications on Canadian art, including the books and art catalogues 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 contributed articles 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.

Kathy Kranias served as studio faculty in the Craft and Design program at Sheridan College (2004-2018) and senior visual arts teacher with the Toronto District School Board (1990-1998). She holds a Master’s Degree in Art History (2015, York University), a Bachelor of Education Degree in Visual Arts and Dramatic Arts (1990, University of Toronto), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art (1986, Concordia University, Montreal).