About

Cara Lynch is a visual artist working in painting and sculpture. Her recent paintings focus on the image of the heart. Lynch works with fiber-reactive dyes on fabric, a material that resists control and demands collaboration. As the dye spreads unpredictably through the fiber, intended shapes round off and blur, echoing how love and care rarely hold the forms we intend. The results are vivid, large in scale, and marked by the visible trace of the hand.

This interest in care, craft, and collaboration also shapes Lynch's public art practice, where she has spent over a decade creating large-scale works grounded in bright color, bold geometric abstraction, and the aesthetics of quilting and domestic craft. These works evoke a sense of home, community, and collective belonging in shared public spaces. Her recent work embraces Radical Joy as a deliberate response to precarity and anxiety, creating vivid, transformative experiences for visitors and passersby alike. She has completed permanent and temporary installations across the country, including projects for NYC MTA Arts and Design, NYC Health and Hospitals, the City of Glendale in Los Angeles, New Jersey Transit, Nashville International Airport, and the NYC Department of Transportation.

Recent presentations include Homebodies at 334 Broome, Off the Grid at 5-50 Gallery, and Less is a Bore at Blah Blah Gallery in Philadelphia. Her work has been covered by Hyperallergic, Architectural Digest, and the Wall Street Journal.

She holds an MFA from Columbia University (2020) and a BFA from Adelphi University (2012).