About Casey

Pronouns: They/Them and She/Her

Casey is a queer artist, poet, gardener, cyclist, aspiring historian, abolitionist, psychotherapist, and (hopefully) lifelong learner. They create work on themes of nostalgia, trauma, remembrance, religion, queerness, and joy. In their art practice, Casey’s work explores emotion and identity through different materials and mediums, including oil painting, printmaking, cyanotype, comics, and photography, emphasizing the use of recycled materials and giving second life to objects.

Casey is currently artist-in-residence at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square in Chicago, IL. In this position, they create artworks to further the hopeful imagination of the community, as well as plan and facilitate events and exhibitions that activate the church building as a community space for a larger audience.

Casey studied painting and photography at lower education levels and the rest of their work is self-taught. They have displayed art in traveling shows, literature magazines, community spaces, and white cube galleries, but what they love most is creating art for active audiences and communities.

Casey hopes to develop an art practice and a life that challenges violent systems of supremacy and capitalism, working to unlearn and relearn how to carry privilege, divesting from cultures and structures that gather power in order to oppress and control, and investing instead in community, collaboration, and care. Casey dreams that their work can be a small part of using imagination to create a better, more just world.