Cat Gunn
[Image description: Cat stands in front of an aquarium, bathed in blue light. They have short hair and wear a baseball cap, glasses, and a dark button-up shirt.]
Originally from Baltimore, MD, Cat Gunn is a transmasc nonbinary artist living and working in southern California. Their current studio practice involves creating ceramic sculptures, paintings, and objects that emulate the landscapes, flora, and fauna of various ancestral archipelagos, such as the Philippines, Hawai’i, and the Scottish Orkney Islands. Their work serves as an offering to honor ancestors who may or may not have existed, and build connections to untold and forgotten familial histories lost to time, colonization, and assimilation. Through utilizing fiction, abstraction, materiality, and processes of making, Gunn’s work manifests the intersection of their queer, trans identity with their multiracial identity. Gunn has recently exhibited at Maryland Art Place and Terrault Contemporary in Baltimore, MD, The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE, and has participated in various pop-up shows around San Diego and Los Angeles.
Gunn received a BFA in Painting and an MA in Professional Studies (Art History Concentration) from Towson University. Their MA thesis was “Materiality, Physicality, and Performance of Paint in Modernism.” They are currently pursuing their MFA in Visual Arts at University of California San Diego, where they have expanded their practice into the realms of ceramics and sculpture.
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