‘Aphotic’ by Nico Cathcart

Nico Cathcart is a Deaf/Hard of Hearing painter and muralist hailing from Toronto, Ontario, and currently living in Richmond, Virginia. She strives to create socially informed intersectional work in her highly-colorful realistic activations on both walls and canvas. An experienced mural painter, she has worked on walls across the country with work to be found in Austin, Sacramento, Rochester, Birmingham, Memphis, Denver, Atlanta, Napa CA, and Wynwood Miami. Nico has been shown at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, the Hermitage Museum, CAN Network in Norfolk, ABV Gallery in Atlanta, Modern Eden and 111 Minna in San Francisco, Blockfort in Columbus, and countless other galleries across the country. In 2020, Nico was honored as an Agent of Change for her use of activism in art by the VMHC, and in 2023 her work “Age and Grace” won a National Mural Award. You can find Nico discussing her work in the emmy-nominated documentary Mending Walls, available trough PBS nationwide, as well as a TEDTalk about her work, and disability on the youtube TedTALK Channel.. Nico recently worked to curate, and take part in the national campaign, Artists 4 ERA, you can purchase prints of her portrait of trans activist Aurora Higgs, proceeds of which support the passage of the 18th Amendment, and voting rights work. In 2023, Nico was name one of the Top 40 Artists to Watch by Culture Candy and Up Magazine, and her work was featured in a book of the top 50 Women Street Artists in the World.