Sarah Kraning is a painter with synesthesia whose work bridges contemporary art and music culture. Born with multiple forms of auditory-visual synesthesia, Sarah translates sound into color, texture, and motion — creating large-scale paintings that function as visual scores. Her multi-sensory approach has resonated with a global audience, amassing millions of followers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, and earning features in GRAZIA, People Magazine, HGTV, UPROXX, and CBS Chicago. With early career attention from art industry leaders such as the Guggenheim Museum , Kraning has been compared to a modern-day Wassily Kandinsky.

A fixture in music spaces. Sarah is known for painting live alongside artists during concerts, studio sessions, and festival performances. Her kinetic, high-energy visual language mirrors the intensity of the music itself, and her work has captured the attention of leading musicians worldwide. She has collaborated with artists including RÜFÜS DU SOL, Armani White, Bob Moses, Perry Farrell (founder of Lollapalooza), and Sam Gellaitry. Her paintings of music have been collected by award winning musicians such as the Jonas Brothers, James Hunt (RÜFÜS DU SOL), Abigail Barlow (Barlow & Bear), and others. Her creative work also spans partnerships with labels such as Warner Music, creative directors, and touring teams.

Sarah’s recent work expands into environmental storytelling and music-driven conversation. As a creative ambassador with global wildlife nonprofit Re:wild, she is developing a signature body of work that fuses the colors, rhythms, and movements of nature’s soundscapes with the emotional palette of popular music — building an intersection of art, climate, and culture.

Her evolving practice sits at the crossroads of fine art, live performance, and the music industry, positioning her as one of the leading contemporary atists translating sound to sight.