Cassidy Barnett

Cassidy Barnett (b. 2001, Flint, Michigan) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the materiality of memory and the ways personal narratives become embedded within objects and places. Painting and fabric manipulation become visual metaphors for the fragmented nature of recollection, inviting viewers to consider the emotional residue carried by everyday experiences. Her work considers memory not as a fixed inventory but as a fluid, evolving archive shaped by emotion, absence, and the physical layers left behind.
Barnett earned her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2023 and is currently pursuing an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been published in Suboart Magazine Issue #26 and ArtsinSquare Issue #8, and exhibited at The Other Art Fair, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Buckham Gallery, Playground Detroit, Dream Clinic Project Space, and galleries and institutions across the United States.

BFA, College for Creative Studies, 2023
MFA, California Institute of the Arts 2028

Solo/Two Person Shows:
2026 Four Acres, Novi Civic Center Atrium Gallery Novi, MI


Selected Group Shows:
2026 Disconnected Lines, Jarrod Heaslip Gallery Ferndale, MI
2026 MIDWEST, Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, MI
2026 Re/View: CCS Alumni Exhibition Detroit, MI
2026 Common Ground, Community Arts Gallery Ferndale, MI
2026 Elsewhere: Into Revelation, ASpace Gallery Brooklyn, NY
2026 Elsewhere: Into Revelation, Space Matter Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2025 The Other Art Fair Chicago, Booth 95E Chicago, IL
2025 Shadow Show, Pizzo Gallery Ferndale, MI
2025 Art of BasBlue, BasBlue Detroit, MI
2025 Access-ABILITY, Studio 23 Bay City, MI
2025 Common Thread, Fiber Club, UofM Gifts of Art Gallery Ann Arbor, MI
2024 Transparency, Union Street Gallery Chicago, IL
2024 95th Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art Muskegon, MI
2024 Nest, Detroit Artist Market Detroit, MI
2024 Art Fair Detroit, Art Clvb Detroit, MI
2024 Art Prize Grand Rapids, The August Connection Grand Rapids, IL
2024 Re/View CCS Alumni Show , Valade Gallery Detroit, MI
2024 Lost and Found, Gutman Gallery Detroit, MI
2024 Hatchback, Hatch Art Hamtramck, MI
2024 Press Play, Buckham Gallery Flint, MI
2024 COMM[UNITY] II, Playground Detroit Detroit, ...