Katy Krantz’s objects and installations document a turbulent and playful process of making. Chance, surprise and the transformation of material play an important role in her work. Krantz has exhibited widely, showing her work at such venues as The Oakland Museum and the Richmond Art Center in California, as well as at the City Museum of Cuernavaca, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She has had solo shows of her ceramic work at Iko Iko Space in Los Angeles and Saffron in Brooklyn. Krantz was a Pollock-Krasner Fellow at the Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Artist’s Colony in 2009. She earned her MFA from Hunter College and her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Krantz currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education and Featured Projects

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EDUCATION

2007 MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY

1998 BA, Studio Art, University of California, Santa Cruz

1998 BA, American Studies (honors), University of California, Santa Cruz

EXHIBITIONS (solo shows marked by asterisk)

2016 “Drawing for Sculpture,” Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 “New Work,” Totokaelo, Seattle, WA

“Symbiosis,” Seward Park Clay Studio Gallery, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA

“Pressed to the EDGE” Tashiro Kaplan Corridor Gallery, Seattle, WA

2012 “EDGE 2012,” Ballardworks Gallery, Seattle, WA

2011 “Dug,” Soil Gallery, Seattle WA

“No Longer the Property of,” Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, CA

2010 *“The Centerpiece,” IKO IKO Space, Los Angeles, CA

“Twelve and Under,” Saffron, Brooklyn, NY

*“Alchemy,” Saffron, Brooklyn, NY

“You Need to Know Your History,” Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

“Yard Show,” Dirty Dirty, Brooklyn, NY

“Pap Art,” San Francisco City College Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009 “tART @AIR,” AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

“Stayin’ Alive,” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

“Pap Art,” Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO

2008 “Pollock-Krasner Fellows at Byrdcliffe,” Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY

“Yellow,” Studio 1442, New York, NY

“tART Summer Salon,” Rabbithole Studio, Brooklyn, NY

“Annual Works on Paper,” Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ

2007 “Punch Bowl,” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

“MFA Thesis Show,” Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

2006 *”New Paintings,” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

“Recent Work,” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Scope Art Fair, Hamptons, NY

2003 “Deep Decoration,” Giorgi Gallery, Berkeley, CA

“Out of Line,” Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Amnesia Bakery,” Phantom Gallery Project, San Jose, CA

“Scenes and Zines,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

2002 “Beast Fest,” Black Box Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Turf: West Contra Costa County Artists,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

“Visions of Peace,” Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, CA

2000 “Laberinto de Las Culturas,” SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco CA

“La Flor y La Calavera,” Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalog)

“Accidentes Vivenciales,” Museo de la Ciudad de Cuernavaca, Cuernavaca, Mexico

“Dear Diary,” Cesar Chavez Student Center Gallery, SFSU, San Francisco, CA

1999 “Maldita Suerte,” Balazo Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“AAC Annual Exhibition,” North Tahoe Art Center, Lake Tahoe, CA

1998 *”Reckless La-La,” Dancing Man Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

“Irwin Scholars Exhibition,” Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2012 Edge Professional Development Program, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA

2008 Rema Hort Mann Visual Art Grant Nominee

Pollock Krasner Fellow, Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woodstock, NY

2007 Nancy Ashton Memorial Prize, Hunter College

2007 Joan Mitchell MFA Award Nominee

2005 Lutz/Riedel Fellowship, Hunter College

2002 Full Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

2001 Residency, Art Farm, Marquette, NE

1998 Irwin Scholarship, UC Santa Cruz

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2013 Faculty, Seward Park Clay Studio, Seattle, WA

2007-2010 Faculty, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, NY

2007-2010 Faculty, Trinity School, Art Department, New York, NY

2008 Visiting Artist, Lectures/Workshops, Hunter College, New York, NY

2003 Art Workshops for Parents, Downer School, San Pablo, CA

2002 Integrating Art into the Classroom (workshop series for teachers), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

2001 Creating Expressive Images, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2000 Artist’s Talk: Altars and Offerings for the Days of the Dead, Oakland Museum

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