Kristin Anahit Cass is a multidisciplinary artist and writer working in photography, video, sculpture and other media telling stories that imagine the future, connect with ancestors, and envision a better world. Ancestral healing practices are also part of her work. As Hyperallergic noted, 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 advocated for social justice in her career as a lawyer. She’s one of the founders of the LGBTQ platform Entanik (Family), supporting creatives in the global community.
Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including Art of the State 2025 at the Arvada Center, Celestial Dreams at Valkarie Gallery, Traversing Temporalities at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Reparations of the Heart at the Stamelos Gallery Center University of Michigan, and Witness: The Artist's Response at Elephant Room Gallery. She is the author of Reparations of the Heart: Toward a Compassionate Futurity (Fifth Wheel Press 2024). 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