Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw

Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw are an artist duo whose large-scale sculptures and performances examine spectacle, excess, and the construction of national myth. Working across public and institutional contexts, they transform vernacular symbols into civic-scale monuments that engage broad audiences, using humor and scale to draw viewers into critical encounters with systems of consumption, celebration, and collective belief. Their work foregrounds how power is performed and sustained in shared space.

Their practice moves between extremes of scale—monumental public works that activate civic environments and intimate miniatures that compress grand narratives into precise, uncanny forms. This oscillation invites close looking and wide participation, destabilizing hierarchies between the epic and the everyday while revealing how cultural meaning is constructed, circulated, and contested.

Catron & Outlaw have presented projects with institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, Times Square Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), and Creative Time. Their work has received national and international press coverage and is held in collections including the Brooklyn Museum and Beth Rudin DeWoody. They live and work in Brooklyn, New York.