Born in Romania, Pnina Granirer studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, Israel. After some time spent in the USA, she came to Canada in1965 and has lived in Vancouver ever since. Granirer has shown her work locally, nationally and internationally. It may be found in numerous private, corporate and public collections. In 1989 she published the Trials of Eve, a book based on a series of works by the same name. It was later made into a film. In 1998 the artist had a 40 year retrospective at the Richmond Art Gallery and Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist, a lavishly illustrated book by Ted Lindberg, was published by Ronsdale Press. In 1993, together with Anne Adams, Granirer initiated "Artists in our Midst," a successful annual community-oriented Open Studios Event in Vancouver, BC.