Cait Finley
About the Artist
Cait Finley is an American artist working in Montana.
She/they hopes to solve environmental destruction through pleasure.
Their work is about the differences between human perceptions of time, and geological time. Using sculpture, writing, video, and performance, to fantasize kinships with entities much larger and more nebulous herself. Preferring to think of things like petroleum, capitalism, and global warming as entities in order to see more clearly how they fit into human narrative timelines. And exploring the ways humans attempt to speed up and slow down geological time to more comfortably align with our corporeal, fleeting understanding of being.
Finley received an MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University in Syracuse NY and a BFA in Ceramics from The University of Montana in Missoula MT. Exhibiting nationally at Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL; Art Helix, Brooklyn NY; CB1, Los Angeles CA; Cornell University, Ithaca NY, and internationally Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm Sweeden, QiPO Art Fair, Mexico City Mexico, Bunsunrad Gallery, Bangkok Thailand and Das Gift, Berlin Germany. She has been the recipient of The Freeman Asia Fellowship, Mansfield Fellowship, and granted artist in residence at The University of Montan Missoula MT, Anderson Ranch in Snowmass CO, OxBow in Saugatuck MN, as well as the Turner Residency in Los Angeles CA.
Cait Finley is an MT Open AIR Artist.
Artist Statement
My work is about the difference between human perceptions of time and its relationship with geological time. I use sculpture, moving images, and a heavy metal nature documentarian/alter ego; to explore the ways humans attempt to speed up and slow down geological time to better align with our corporeal, fleeting understanding of being.