Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw produce sculptural and performative works at the scale of civic monument. Working with shared cultural emblems and public rituals, they construct all encompassing environments in which spectacle and excess reveal the strain of collective myth.  Within these ambitious structures, belief counters logic, creating tension against the narratives that claim to contain it.

Their practice is defined by extremes of scale. Monumental forms occupy public space with the authority of memorial architecture, while parallel works compress expansive narratives into intimate, miniature constructions. Moving between these poles collapses the epic and the everyday, revealing how myth circulates. Humor functions at varying levels, inviting engagement, while tragedy quietly destabilize the structure. Rather than parody, they perform from within, implicating themselves in the unstable space between sincerity and absurdity.

Across monumental and intimate works alike, they examine how belief organizes collective experience—promising unity, generating spectacle, and exposing the limits of its own authority.

Their work has been exhibited and commissioned by institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, MOCA Detroit, and Times Square Arts, and has received national coverage in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Architectural Record, Hyperallergic, and WWD. Their work is held in prominent collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.

Jen and Paul grew up in Southern Illinois, and Alabama, respectively, drawing much influence from shifting beliefs and geographies from where they came, and where they landed. Catron and Outlaw met while earning their MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and live and work in Brooklyn, NY.