Menno Krant began painting suddenly ten years ago. He was living out of his car at the time, driving to secluded locations where he would paint through the night by streetlight, or soak his works in Lake Ontario to have them dry in the sun. He gained recognition rapidly when a local antique dealer introduced his work to a New York dealer which led to his inclusion in the international Outsider Art Show, NYC. Since then his paintings have been exhibited and collected internationally. In Toronto, he has participated generously in activist and community centered exhibitions including Art of Darkness at the AGO and Rendez-vous with Madness. The documentary film Live, Nude, Girls featured Menno Krant painting five women -literally- as they discussed their relationship to their bodies. The CBC, Rogers and CBLT have all done programming involving his work and he held several solo shows at the Tableau Vivant Gallery.
