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Caitlin Berrigan

Caitlin Berrigan works as a visual artist, writer, and researcher. Her early works address viruses and the spatial choreographies of capitalism and contagion. Recent works in her speculative cosmology called Imaginary Explosions explore poetics and queer science fiction as world-making practices. The work has been the subject of a book (Broken Dimanche Press, 2018); a 2019 solo show at Art in General, reviewed in Artforum; and a world premiere in the 2020 Berlinale Forum Expanded exhibition. She has presented her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Poetry Project, Henry Art Gallery, the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Anthology Film Archives, La Casa Encendida, Ashkal Alwan, Goldsmiths’ College, and other international venues. Her experimental essays are published by e-flux, Georgia, MARCH, and Duke University Press. She has received fellowships and residencies from Creative Capital, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Graham Foundation, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude. She earned a Master’s in Visual Art from MIT and a BA from Hampshire College. Currently a Caltech-Huntington artist-in-residence, Berrigan has held full-time and visiting faculty positions at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Bard College Berlin, Harvard University, and UMass Boston.