Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett are artists, collaborators, and cultural organizers based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, Canada. Since 2010, they have cultivated a practice that is site-responsive, participatory, and poetic, inviting sensory engagement on a human-scale through novel experiences and intimate public encounters. Many of their sculptures, installations, interventions, and curatorial projects transpire in non-traditional spaces, ranging from ancient forests to derelict buildings, suburban parking lots to municipal libraries, public parks to their own backyard. Caitlind & Wayne believe in art’s potential to shift our perspective of the everyday, building public intimacy, environmental connections, and radical empathy in a complex world.
Caitlind & Wayne have exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, notably at Setouchi Triennale (Japan), Weisman Art Museum (USA), GLOW Eindhoven (Netherlands), Pera Museum (Turkey), Koohouse Museum (South Korea), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), Times Art Museum (Beijing), and the National Arts Centre (Canada). Their “permanent” public art can be found in Calgary, Edmonton, Airdrie, Toronto, and Agios Nikolaos (Greece). In 2019, they were awarded three Mayor’s Art Awards for public art in Calgary and Edmonton. The same year, Caitlind earned an Alumni of Merit Career Award from Alberta University of the Arts. In 2025, they were interviewed by Matt Galloway on CBC national radio. In 2026, Caitlind & Wayne received the G.& A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize for Chronotopia in Greece – the second international artists ever to be awarded the art prize.
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
Caitlind r.c. Brown is an artist, collaborator, and cultural organizer. She graduated from Alberta University of the Arts in 2010, earning an Alumni of Merit Career Award in 2019. She has founded numerous projects, collectives, and collaborative partnerships, including WRECK CITY, an organization curating experimental art exhibitions in pre-demolition spaces. She guided The Wandering Island with Lane Shordee & Wayne Garrett, facilitating “slow art for the audience of birds, bats, beaver, fish, and the occasional curious wanderer” unfolding on a small island in the Elbow River. In response to the rigours of working in the field of public art, Caitlind & Wayne launched The Hibernation Project in 2019, an annual experimental art series combating the isolation of Winter through a series of collaborative events. Spinoffs from The Hibernation Project include monthly sound art radio program, EARS HAVE EYES, and IDLE WORSHIP, a mobile car-based exhibition touring the parking lots of Calgary.
Wayne Patrick Garrett is an artist and musician. He trained as a Journeyman Machinist at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, working in Whitehorse, Yukon for several years before returning to Alberta to pursue an education in Jazz Music at Mount Royal University. He entered into the world of contemporary art through the Arbour Lake Sghool, a subversive arts collective in the suburbs of Calgary, when he moved into the collective’s house in 2007. Here he met Caitlind Brown and they began their joint career in the arts, collaborating on films and installations. Wayne performs as a musician in a series of bands, including Ghostkeeper, Amy Nelson, Ryan Bourne & The Plant City Band, and many more. He released his first solo pedal steel album, Marine Life, with Inner Ocean Records in 2024. Wayne’s love of collaboration, rigorous experimentation, composition, and technical proficiency began with music and machining, and expanded into a multidisciplinary arts practice.
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett. Photo by Jirapan Nilmanee.
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett. Photos by Mike Tan.
Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett 