Kristin Anahit Cass
773.680.8498
Education
Bridge Program, Hyde Park Art Center
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, JD
Barat College, Lake Forest, IL, BA, cum laude
Awards
Director’s Honorable Mention for Tatik yev Papik, Revisiting the Family Album: Stories That Bind Us, Center for fine Art Photography, 2023
Finalist for 2018 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for Borderlands Under Fire
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Traversing Temporalities, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, 2024
Reparations of the Heart, Stamelos Gallery Center, University of Michigan, 2023
Borderlands Under Fire, Stamelos Gallery Center, University of Michigan, 2020
The New Freedom Fighters: Women and Nonviolent Resistance, Stamelos Gallery Center,
Selected Group Exhibitions in Chicago, unless otherwise noted
Have You Eaten? Agitator Gallery, 2023
SIP: Sequences, Iterations, and Permutations, Hyde Park Art Center, 2022
SLAYSIAN 2.0, Co-Prosperity Sphere Gallery, 2021
Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change, Strange Fire Collective/Humble Arts Foundation online, 2021
Unmuted, Hyde Park Art Center, 2020
Juried Exhibitions in Chicago
Emerging, ARC Gallery, Laura Cloud juror, 2019
Pride And Prejudice, ARC Gallery, Oli Rodriguez juror, 2019
Chicago Neighborhoods: Walking Home, Hairpin Arts Center, Richard Cahan and
Charles Osgood jurors, 2018
In the 'Hood, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chris Jackson juror, 2017
Witness: The Artist’s Response, Elephant Room Gallery, Kimberly Leja Atwood juror, 2017
Teaching, Workshops, and Events
Guest lecturer, Arts and Culture in Armenia and the Diaspora Since 1991, University of California Berkeley, 2023, 2024
The Human Cost of Frozen Conflict, Stamelos Gallery Center, 2021
Rainbow Forum, global queer Armenian conference, 2021
Cher the Love, drag artist performance event, 2021
Women Freedom Fighters: Defending Armenia, Building Our Future, AIWA, 2020
Salt & Light Coalition, narrative portraits of trafficking survivors, 2019
Culture Collage, ChiTeen Lit Fest, 2018
Inaugural Day of Service, Photography Coordinator, Resistance In Action, 2017
Borderlands Under Fire, AGBU Humanities Festival, 2017
Digital Photography Classes, Art On Sedgwick, LaSalle Language Academy, and Leslie’s Place, 2016
Publications
Reparations of the Heart: Toward a SWANA Futurity, fifth wheel press, 2024
Our Land: Finding My Family’s Village In Western Armenia, by Araxie Cass, photographs by Kristin Anahit Cass, Armenian Weekly, 4/22/20
Reparations Of The Heart, HyeBred Magazine, Healing Fall 2019
Mothers and Daughters, by Araxie Cass and Kristin Anahit Cass, HyeBred Magazine, Spring 2019
Feldman, Ellen. Kristin Cass, contributing photographer. We Who March. Boston, Massachusetts. ELFEL Publications/One Edition. 2017. Book.
Board Memberships
Entanik, non profit platform for a global queer SWANA and allied family, 2021-present
VGA, gallery for appreciation and education of video game art and new media, 2019-2020
Women in Focus Chicago, non profit promoting photographic arts and education, 2015-2018
Media
Write More Light: Imagining Futures with Kristin Anahit Cass, Midwest Writing Center, 2024
Book Review 2024
What Would a World Without Genocide Look Like?, by Tamar Boyadjian, Hyperallergic, 6/6/23
Queer Speculations, International Armenian Literary Alliance, 2024
Interview: Kristin Anahit Cass, Fifth Wheel Press, 6/12/23
Kristin Anahit Cass, by Lori Waxman, Newcity, 3/5/21
12 city neighborhoods meet 12 female photographers, by Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 11/12/2017
Collections
Collected internationally and in the collections of the Stamelos Gallery Center at the University of Michigan and the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Armenia, Chicago
Other Art Activities
Co-curator, Chicago Neighborhoods: Walking Home, Hairpin Arts Center