Artist Bio
CAITO (Caito Stewart) was born in 1985 in Ossining, New York. She has shown her work in Tokyo, Japan; St. Louis, MO; Brooklyn, Manhattan, and all over New York state.
In early 2008, she moved to Tokyo, where she spent about ten years working at a language school as a Trainer, developing and facilitating training curriculums and mentoring teachers. She spent the rest of her time painting, studying Japanese, making music, and traveling. On her travels she explored and documented the ruins and ghost towns around rural Japan as inspiration for her art.
She has a BFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and an MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She currently lives and works in Long Island, NY.
Artist Statement
I create mixed-media installations and sculptures, using a variety of materials to explore themes of loss, religious trauma, impermanence, and nostalgia. Depending on the project, this can include found materials, ceramic clay, cast resin or plaster, charcoal dust, wood, paper, foam core, epoxy resin clay, and paint. I often use seriality, making multiples of everyday domestic objects from my personal history, to ritualize the act of making. The repetitive labor helps me remember, honor, or preserve what has been changed or lost. I use exaggerated amounts, unexpected pairings of objects, and drastic size increases to convey universal concepts, ideas, and emotions related to my experiences. I strive for a certain level of realism, which contrasts with the alterations I make to create a surreal, uncanny effect that allows me to tackle my emotionally-charged subjects with levity. By mining my own personal experiences in this way, I can process, heal, move forward, and connect with others.
Artist CV
Caito Stewart
Education
2020 MFA Fine Art/Sculpture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2007 BFA Fine Art/Painting, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2018 I Come From the Water, Ossining Public Library, Ossining, NY
2018 Controlled Chaos, Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill, NY
2013 Caitlin Stewart and Renee Riddle, Les Rendez-vous de Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions and Events
2024 Lighting the Way, Clay Art Center, Portchester, NY
2022 Chromotherapy in an Age of Doubt, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Manhattan, NY
2021 Home Room: Live and In Person (curated by ANTE), ChaShaMa, Manhattan, NY
2021 Unprecedented: Art Responds to 2020, View Arts Center, Old Forge, NY
2021 Art in Odd Places, AiOP Performance Art Festival, Manhattan, NY
2021 Emergent Poise, Pratt MFA 2020 Artist Collective, OnCanal, Manhattan, NY
2020-2021 Vanishing (Virtual Exhibition), This Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA
2020 Artwork published in The Artists’ Grief Deck, Artists’ Literacies Institute
2020 Home Room (Online Performance), Radiator Gallery and ANTE Mag,
Long Island City, NY
2020 Us: What divides us and what unites us? (Virtual Exhibition), Touchstone Gallery,
Washington, D.C.
2020 The Feminine Agenda, Womenswork.Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2020 LOSS (Virtual exhibition), Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 JUSTICE (Virtual exhibition), The Art Guild, Manhasset, NY
2020 Inheritance, Super Dutchess Gallery, Manhattan, NY
2020 Realism: Encountering the Real, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Artists in the Time of Coronavirus (Virtual exhibition), Artblog, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Assemblage (Virtual exhibition), The Olympia Project, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Pratt MFA Candidates Show, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Welcome, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Pratt MFA Candidates Show, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Breaking Down Primaries, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 BFA Thesis Show, Walker Hall, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2007 Senior Painting Show, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Related Work Experience
Jan. 2024 – Present – Director, One River School of Art + Design, Larchmont, NY
Aug. 2022 – Dec. 2023 Director of Education, One River School of Art + Design, Larchmont, NY
Nov. 2021 – Aug. 2022 Asst. Director of Education, One River School of Art + Design, Larchmont, NY
June 2021 – Nov. 2021 Art Instructor, One River School of Art + Design, Woodbury, NY
2021 Curator, “Emergent Poise IV: Assertion of Life,” an exhibition by the Pratt MFA
2020 Artist Collective, WallPlay, Soho, NY
2021 Artist Speaker and Facilitator, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
2020-2022 Peer Support Group Host/Facilitator for The Dinner Party
2020-Present Support Group Facilitator/moderator for NYC Motherless Daughters
2020-2021 Virtual Workshop Facilitator for Ghost Tike Workshops with Reimagine
2020-2021 Programming Committee Member and Facilitator at COPE Foundation
2020 Graduate Assistant Award (Teaching Assistant), Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
2019 Founder of MFA Student Support Group, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Graduate Assistant Award (Sculpture Shop Monitor) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
2019 Intern, Immaculate Conception, Inc. (Studio of Janine Antoni), Brooklyn, NY
2018 Facilitator, Art Healing Grief Workshop, St. Augustine Parish Hall, Ossining, NY
2013-2017 Teacher Trainer at ECC Language Institute, Tokyo Japan
2008-2013 English Instructor at ECC Language Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Installation Assistant to Matthew Ritchie, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2006 Installation Assistant to Tara Donovan, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2006 Intern, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005 Intern in Collections Management, Rubin Museum of Art, Chelsea, NY
Collections
Artwork belongs to private collections in Tokyo, Japan; Toronto, Canada; London, United Kingdom; San Jose, CA; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Brooklyn, NY; Westchester, NY; Long Island, NY; Glastonbury, CT; and New Jersey.
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