Kait Mauro is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer whose work is shaped by loss, landscapes, and an ongoing commitment to excavating the layers of her experiences with the dialectical holding of grief and delight.
Writing is her longest-standing medium and the foundation of her creative practice. She does not write to be a writer; she writes to survive it.
She recently settled down in Alabama after living nomadically for most of a year in a beat-up old 1991 GMC Safari van with her dogs. It almost killed her a comedic number of times.
Her visual work is liminal and atmospheric, created primarily with inks and metallics to produce surfaces that feel more like echoes than images, more like residual light than fixed objects. Instability is not something the work attempts to resolve, but a material it actively engages. Mauro is interested in how luminescence can coexist with grit, and in what lingers after an experience passes through and as grief compounds in the body.
Mauro is currently developing several bodies of painted abstract works.
Her spiritual life is quiet, messy, and improvised, shaped by meditations, good books by wise people, sound baths, intuitive ritual, and 12-step recovery. The lessons are hard-earned. Growth and stability are held in constant negotiation.
Her poetry collection, Don’t Flinch, is available for pre-order.
She believes in attention, slowness, and staying long enough to notice what remains.
“I saved my own life.” —Mary Oliver
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2024 "What I Need & You Might Too," Femmes Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2022 “City As Place,” University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
2018 “Reproductive Justice Artivism Show,” Washington Court Hotel, Washington D.C.
2015 “Environmental Landscapes,” Whitebox, Saint Louis, MO
2015 “Perception Isn’t Always Reality,” Kranzberg Arts Center, Saint Louis, MO
2014 “Portraits,” Regional Arts Commission, Saint Louis, MO
2014 “From Darkness to Light,” Foundation Gallery, New York City
2012. “Eleven Images,” Filter, Saint Louis, MO
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Shambhala Center in Birmingham, AL
Riverfront Times
Endangered Wolf Center
Missouri Botanical Garden
Washington University in Saint Louis
Numerous private collectors worldwide
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2025 Accepted to juried Moss Rock Arts Festival
2018 Advocates For Youth grant recipient
2014 Work featured multiple times on the homepage of WordPress.com
2012 Work featured on the homepage of WordPress.com
2012 Independent study in poetry with Philip Matthews, St Louis, MO
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Huffington Post
Riverfront Times
VSA Missouri
Saint Louis Story Stitchers
Tonbomai
South County Times
Art Flood STL
Kranzberg Arts Center
Elements
Broken Light Collective
Blue Monday Review
A&S Magazine
Armour Magazine
Spires Arts & Literary Magazine
Kalkion Review
Bookends Review
Camroc Review
Editor’s Eye on Fictionaut.com
Cur.ren.cy Magazine
Danse Macabre du Jour
52/250: A Year
Sam Fox School of Art & Design
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2025 Summer Artist In Residence at The Bungalow, Gulf Shores, AL
2024 Fall Artist In Residence at Thrive Together, Birmingham, AL
2024 Spring Artist In Residence at Thrive Together, Birmingham, AL
