Artist Portrait taken at Sunset Cliffs, San Diego, CA, 2025.
Cat Gunn (b. 1993, Honolulu, HI)
they/them/their
Originally from Baltimore, Cat Gunn is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans imagemaking, installation, sculpture, ceramics, painting, and drawing. Using deconstructed altars, archival sites, and domestic spaces as a site of investigation, Gunn stages arrangements of ceramic sculptures, images, plants, found objects, and material experiments. These works interrogate how objects mediate relationships and memories. Working to honor their own Filipinx heritage they have reclaimed through their research, they also evaluate the colonial relationship and imperial impacts of the US occupation of the Philippines from 1898-1946. With the use of historical Filipino archives and a modest familial archive, their work offers a portal where divergent timelines can intersect, dreaming of what was, what could have been, and what will be.
Gunn received their MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego, where they expanded their practice into the realms of ceramics, sculpture, and installation. They received their MA in Professional Studies (Art History Concentration) and BFA in Painting from Towson University. Gunn has had their work included in recent group exhibitions at ICA in San Diego, Vielmetter in Los Angeles, and BEST PRACTICE in San Diego among others. Gunn also co-founded Harvest & Gather, an experimental, nomadic curatorial project run in San Diego with collaborator and friend, mika Castañeda.
catsgunnart@gmail.com | www.catgunn.com | (443)986-8977
Education
2023 MFA Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2019 MA Professional Studies (Art History Concentration), Towson University, Towson, MD
2016 BFA Painting, Towson University, Towson, MD
2013 AA Fine Arts, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2026 BEST PRACTICE, San Diego, CA — with mika Castañeda (upcoming)
if only by the light of a new moon, ICA, San Diego, CA (upcoming)
2023 a grain of rice embedded in my chest, Performance Space, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2021 My Mother’s Mountains, Commons Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2020 Pretty Boy, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
2019 Super Bloom, Hotel Indigo, Baltimore, MD
Take Time, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
Group Exhibitions
2025 Night Bloom, K.I.T.E. Projects, Other Places art fair South, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Scuttle & Siphon, Tigercrow, Other Places art fair South, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Volume 10: Dismantled, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD (curated by Caitlin Gill)
2024 and Elsewhere, Tigercrow, BEST PRACTICE, San Diego, CA
ART ATTACK! 2024, Project [BLANK], Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA
WORKING TITLE, Project [BLANK], St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, San Diego, CA
2023 The Last Group Show, Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA
Queering the Table: an Asian tapestry of language, connection, and Queer presence, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
NextGen 2023, ICA, San Diego, CA
Sites of Blood and Water, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Thick Pile, BEST PRACTICE, San Diego, CA
Fresh Squeezed, Techne Art Center, Oceanside, CA
GLAMFA 2023, SOA Gallery, CSULB, Los Angeles, CA
2022 quadruple, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Blue Lagoon, SME Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Frieze: San Diego, Main & Commons Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2021 Care, Dear Artists, online
(Full) Disclosure, Commons Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2020 Riverfront 20/20, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
My Queer Valentine, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2019 Dream Journal, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
The Witching Hour, Nefarious Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Second Tri-Annual Maryland State Registry Juried Show, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
For The Love of Material, Terrault Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Stonewall @ 50, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
ZIP 21214: art/work/home, Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD
NextGen 6.0, VisArts, Rockville, MD
Intricate Layers, Motor House, Baltimore, MD
Residencies
2025 Institute of Contemporary Art, Artist-in-Residence, San Diego, CA
2024 Art Produce, Artist-in-Residence, San Diego, CA
Awards
2026 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2025 Mutual Aid Fellowship, Campana Studios, San Diego, CA
2022 Russell Grant, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA