Kristin Anahit Cass (she/they) is a writer and artist working in photography, video, sculpture and other media. Cass’s work imagines the future, touches the past, and envisions a better world. As Tamar Boyadjian noted in Hyperallergic, Cass’s work “recognizes the lived experience of trauma, yet owns the ability of humans to individually and collectively reframe that experience in their hearts to make way for reparations.” In addition to her arts education, Cass has worked with women and minority owned businesses, artists, and nonprofits in her career as a lawyer. She is one of the founders of the LGBTQ platform Entanik (Family) where she’s active in supporting creatives in the global community.
Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including Traversing Temporalities at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, Reparations of the Heart at the Stamelos Gallery Center University of Michigan, Witness: The Artist's Response at Elephant Room Gallery Chicago, Chicago Neighborhoods at the Hairpin Gallery Chicago and SLAYSIAN 2.0 at Co-Prosperity Chicago. She is the author of Reparations of the Heart: Toward a SWANA Futurity. Her Borderlands Under Fire project was a finalist for the 2018 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Cass is a graduate of the University of Chicago.
You can find her work at kristincass.com, on Instagram at KristinAnahitCassProjects, on Facebook at Kristin Cass Photography, and on LinkedIn at Anahit Cass