About 

Kannan M. Krishnan is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across sculpture, painting, photography, printmaking, and drawing. His work explores balance, perception, memory, movement, and interconnected systems through visual languages that move between structure and intuition, precision and ambiguity.

Born and raised in India, Krishnan was shaped by its literature, architecture, color, and layered cultural histories. After decades living in Berkeley and Seattle, the shifting light, landscapes, and diverse communities of the American West have become equally important influences on his work.

Before turning fully toward art, Krishnan spent a career in science, engineering, and academia. That background continues to inform his practice—not as illustration or technical exercise, but as a way of thinking about relationships, systems, forces, and the hidden structures that connect things.

In his Ori-hagane sculptures, stainless-steel elements are precisely cut and interlocked without welding, creating forms that emerge through tension, balance, and interdependence. Across media, his work investigates how complexity, fragility, and meaning arise through connection: between materials, between cultures, between people, and between perception and memory.

Art, for Krishnan, is a way of making sense of the world—its beauty, contradictions, and quiet underlying logic.