Kira Lynn Cain is an artist working where sound, image, and story dissolve into one another. Her work spans drawings, mixed media collage, picture books, poetry, and music. Drawing on traditions of conceptual art, literary nonsense, nursery rhymes, and lullabies, she invites audiences into intimate, dreamlike spaces where language loosens and listening becomes a form of seeing.
Her work has been described as a space where Yoko Ono meets Edward Gorey, and where David Lynch meets Philip Glass. Her work is an invitation to remember the child within who could communicate with clouds and shadows, and to feel that familiar, secret inner stirring.
She has performed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Portland, and smaller cities in the US and UK. Her drawings and words have been shown in publications and art spaces, and will soon appear in a picture book for all ages titled Tears Are Everywhere (Buckman Journal).
As a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, she experimented with Fluxus and musique concrète, and was banned for life from Alcatraz Island after a guerrilla performance in which she attempted to sing the sounds of the legendary island prison's ghosts. That same year, Sophie Calle visited her department to give a lecture, and upon graduation a friend gifted her Yoko Ono's Grapefruit; together, these events formed the armature of her worldview.