Cait Porter (b. 1985, Austin, TX)
Cait Porter’s paintings emerge from a deep attentiveness to the overlooked objects and intimate spaces of daily life. Ordinary details—pillows, light switches, plants, the outline of a cord—become charged with personal history, memory, and loss. Through careful observation, Porter transforms these motifs into compositions that feel at once tender and weighted, exploring the ways objects can embody absence, grief, and the fleeting passage of time.
Porter received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019 and her BA in Studio Art from Vassar College in 2008. She has presented solo exhibitions at Marinaro, New York (Circle the Drain, 2024; Within These Walls, 2021), and at FAB Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University (A Month in Montespertoli, 2018). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Marinaro (New York, 2025), Casa Santa Ana (Panama City, 2024), JDJ (New York, 2024), The Hole (New York, 2023), Mrs. (Queens, 2022), and Brackett Creek Exhibitions (Bozeman, 2020–24), among others.
She is the recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2024) and has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the CATWALK Art Residency, and the David Wurtzel Residency in Italy.
Porter currently lives and works in Queens, NY.