Margaret Kraus is an artist who explores themes of the self versus the other.

Margaret begged her parents for a digital camera when she was 8 years old and has not stopped photographing since. She spent her childhood shooting portraits of her twin brother, Vince, and continues to pursue photography along with silkscreen printing and illustration. She sells her work at local art markets across the country.

Margaret has received creative grants from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She has held internships at the Guggenheim Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She has a BA in Visual Art and Humanities from Scripps College.

Her most recent adventure was a year-long Watson Fellowship studying human relationships with urban wildlife in major cities around the world. She traveled alone throughout India, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Thailand, and France, taking photographs, making connections, and creating an illustrated blog series.