Caitlin Berrigan

Caitlin Berrigan works as an artist, filmmaker and writer. Her work enfolds the complexity of interrelations across humans and other beings within spatial ecologies, technologies, and systems of capitalism. Her early works address viruses and the choreographies of capitalism and contagion. Recent works explore poetics and queer science fiction as world-making practices through instruments, films, and new media. Her extensive speculative cosmology, Imaginary Explosions, blends research science with art and fiction alongside emerging media instruments and new technologies. The episodic series centers geological animacies as transfeminist scientists cooperate with the desires of the mineral earth to simultaneously erupt all volcanoes. The work has been the subject of a book (Broken Dimanche Press, 2018) solo shows at JOAN Los Angeles (2023) and Art in General (2019) reviewed in Artforum, and a world premiere in the Berlinale Forum Expanded Exhibition (2020). She has presented her work at the Whitney Museum, Poetry Project, Henry Art Gallery, Union Docs, Harvard Carpenter Center, Anthology Film Archives, La Casa Encendida, Ashkal Alwan, and Goldsmith’s among other international venues. Her experimental writings are published by e-flux, Georgia, MARCH, Duke University Press and Broken Dimanche Press. She has received fellowships and residencies from Creative Capital, the Humboldt Foundation, Skowhegan, Graham Foundation, and Akademie Schloss Solitude. Currently a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Berrigan has held full-time and visiting faculty positions at NYU Tisch, Caltech, Bard College Berlin, Harvard, and UMass Boston.