Cathy Wilkes

Cathy Wilkes (born 1966) is a Northern Irish artist who lives and works in Glasgow.

She was the recipient of the Inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize in 2017 and was commissioned to create the British Pavilion in Venice in 2019.

She attended Glasgow School of Art from 1985 to 1988, and subsequently completed an MFA at the University of Ulster in 1992.

[3] In 2008, Wilkes received a Turner Prize nomination in the "Sculpture, film, sound, performance" category.

In 2017, Wilkes received the Inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize.