Nico Cathcart

Nico Cathcart is a Deaf/Hard of Hearing painter and muralist hailing from Toronto, Ontario, and currently living in Richmond, Virginia. A member of the all women paint crew Few and Far, her work creates highly-realistic, socially informed intersectional activations on both walls and canvas. An experienced mural painter, she has worked on walls across the country. You can find her paintings in the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, and her work has been shown at many prominent galleries across the country, including ABV Gallery, and Modern Eden. 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. Nico worked to curate, and take part in the national campaign, Artists 4 ERA in support of the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. In 2023, Nico was named one of the Top 40 Artists to Watch by New York Cities Culture Candy and Up Street Art Magazine. Recently Nicos work has been published in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, and My Modern Met. She was highlighted as one of 50 globally influential women muralists in the book “Street Art by Women” in 2024. In 2025 Nico’s work won the Susanna Kelly Art Award, and was awarded a Sam and Adele Golden Artist Residency.

You can find Nico discussing her work in the emmy-winning documentary Mending Walls, as well as a 2018 TEDTalk about her work, and disability.