Maryon Kantaroff

Maryon Kantaroff
Born	1933 (age 83–84) Toronto, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Known for	Monumental outdoor sculpture
Awards	President's Award, Sculptors Society of Canada (1992)

Maryon Kantaroff is a Canadian sculptor known for her large-scale outdoor sculptures in bronze and other materials.

Kantaroff studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto and earned a degree in art and archaeology from the University of Toronto in 1957. In 1957-1958 she worked as an assistant curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She traveled to London for postgraduate studies in American Ethnology at the British Museum and remained in England for several years, studying with Eric Stanford at Reading College. Her further studies took place at the Sir John Cass College of Art and the Chelsea College of Arts.

In 1962 Kantaroff had her first solo exhibition at the Temple Gallery, London. She returned to Toronto for an exhibition at City Hall in 1968 and soon after began an association with Galerie Dresdnere, which represented her through the early 1970s. In 1974, frustrated at the lack of a local foundry with capacity for casting her larger works, Kantaroff purchased the Toronto Arts Foundry with the partnership of Al Green (Greenwin Investments). Kantaroff works in a variety of materials including bronze, stone, metal and fiberglass. Her outdoor commissioned sculptures can be seen at J.D.S. Investments, Sheridan Mall, Mississauga (Bird of Paradise, 1970) the Baycrest, Toronto (Song of Deborah, 1979) and the Windsor Sculpture Garden (Cordella, The Garden). She has been a member of the Sculptors Society of Canada since 2004. Kantaroff is represented by the Kinsman Robinson Galleries, Toronto.

In 1992 the artist received the prestigious President's Award of the Sculptors Society of Canada.

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