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 multisensory engagement through novel experiences and intimate public encounters. Many of their sculptures, installations, interventions, and curatorial projects transpire in non-traditional places, ranging from ancient forests to derelict buildings, suburban parking lots to municipal libraries, public parks to their own backyard. Similarly, their gallery work is transgressive or immersive, inviting active viewership and time-based introspection. Caitlind & Wayne believe in art’s potential to shift our human perspective of the everyday, building public intimacy, environmental insights, 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), SIGNAL Festival (Czechia), 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, Agios Nikolaos (Greece), and soon-to-be San Francisco. 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 2026, Caitlind & Wayne received the G.&A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize for Chronotopia in Greece – only the second international artists ever to be awarded the art prize. Recently, they were interviewed on The Current (CBC national radio) about two of their notable public artworks. You can listen to that interview here.
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
Caitlind r.c. Brown is an artist, collaborator, and curator. She graduated from Alberta University of the Arts in 2010, earning an Alumni of Merit Career Award in 2019. She has worked for various organizations including Quickdraw Animation Society, Calgary Underground Film Festival, the Banff Centre, and CJSW Campus & Community Radio Station. Caitlind has co-founded numerous collaborative projects, notably WRECK CITY, a curatorial collective responding to the boom/bust cycles of Calgary through site-specific art exhibitions in pre-demolition buildings. Together with Lane Shordee and Wayne Garrett, she led The Wandering Island, a “slow art” series on a small island in the Elbow River, designed for the audience of “birds, bats, beaver, fish, and the occasional curious wanderer.” Caitlind curates and co-hosts monthly sound art radio program, EARS HAVE EYES, on CJSW 90.9 FM, New Adventures in Sound Art, and Golden Co-op Radio.
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 [sic], 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, installations, and collaborative interventions. Wayne performs as a musician in a series of bands. 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.
In response to the rigours of working in public art, Caitlind & Wayne facilitate a self-organized experimental art series called The Hibernation Project. Occurring annually from Winter to Spring, The Hibernation Project is a collaborative, community-centred project combating the isolation of Canadian Winter through a series of interventions and invitations. Notable spinoffs include a radio program, EARS HAVE EYES, and a recurring car-based exhibition, IDLE WORSHIP.
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett. Photo by Jirapan Nilmanee.
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett. Photos by Mike Tan.
