Education
She graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor in 1994, and from California College of the Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in 2000.
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Grant’s first solo exhibition at a museum was in 2007, organized by curator Alma Ruiz, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Multimedia over Coax Alliance ). A catalog from the exhibition features Grant’s large-scale works on paper, an essay on Grant’s work by Ruiz, and an essay that inspired Grant by Hélène Cixous the French writer and philosopher. Numerous other shows at museums and galleries have included Grant’s work, including the 2010 California Biennial of Art at the Orange County Museum of Art, the Artists’ Museum at Multimedia over Coax Alliance , and Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection at LACMA. Grant is also known for her work in collaboration with the Watts House Project, a non-profit in Watts, across the street from the Watts Towers.
She was the Founding Board Chair of the organization, working with director Edgar Arceneaux, and is the creator of the Love House, a renovation of a house on 107th Street designed with the Cerant Family and architects Roberto Sheinberg and Arnold Swanborn.
Grant’s idea in creating the Love symbol is that an artist can also be a philanthropist. In early 2011, Gerhard Steidl published the Ode to Happiness, in collaboration with Keanu Reeves.
lieutenant was Grant’s first artist book and Reeves’ first book as a writer Grant is currently working with Cixous, on a project revolving around that writer’s book Philippines.
