Cathy McLaurin is an artist whose work is multi-disciplinary engaging design strategies and the performance form to examine what are often repressed discourses in US society, including immigration, privilege, class, systemic racial marginalization and the reactions to these issues that range from ambivalence to hostility and fear.
She is a 2013 MFA candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the recipient of a Puffin Foundation grant, an ART Award from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation and was a 2012 nominee for the St. Botolph Award. She is a Gunk Foundation grant finalist and has held artist residencies at Caldera in Oregon and Southwest School in San Antonio. In 2012 she was nominated for an accepted into Public Intervention, a workshop led by Alfredo Jaar at Harvard University.
