Cathy McLaurin is an artist who uses performance, video, photography, drawing, and writing to interrogate what is. She applies her position as a cultural worker to strike a balance between "on the ground" experiences of southern United States repressed history, tradition and trauma and larger political and economic forces. Her practice is an investigation into the insidious slow drip of complacency that leads to the raging tidal wave of institutionalized systems.

Cathy McLaurin received a MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ('13). Her thesis project, "The North Wind and the Sun" was awarded her second Puffin Foundation grant and will be included in the 2013 exhibition, "The Best of the North East Masters of Fine Art" at Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT. During her MFA studies, she was invited by Alfredo Jaar to participate in his Harvard University graduate course, Public Intervention. In 2012 she received the Final Berwick Research Award, and was nominated for the St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award. She received an ART Award from Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2003. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions, most recently: Boston Center for the Arts; Grace Space, Brooklyn, NY; Howard Art Project, Boston; New Territories New Moves Festival, Glasgow, Scotland; and Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is included in the Flat File at ArtSPACE, New Haven, CT.