Cat Balco is an artist and writer who has exhibited nationally at venues including Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC; Pulse Art Fair, Miami; The Painting Center, NYC; and Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. Her writing has been published in Art New England. A visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Swarthmore College, Pratt Institute at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and Yale University, Balco has also received numerous awards and residencies including the Lillian Orlowski and William Freed Grant from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (2021), the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, The Weir Farm Trust, the Albers Foundation, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her work has been collected by institutions including Credit Suisse, Fidelity Bank, and the State of Connecticut.