Caitlyn Doran is a figurative painter and educator born in Illinois and based in Chicago. She received her BFA in Drawing from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2016 and also attended the Kanazawa College of Art’s Masters oil painting program in 2018/19 in Japan. She is the recipient of the Albert P. Weisman award in 2021 and 2022 as well as a Luminarts Fellowship. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the Midwest and abroad. She completed her MFA at Columbia College Chicago in 2022 and has since gone on to become a Lillstreet Art Center artist in residence. As a teaching artist, Doran now works with students in a myriad of ways, from college and art center courses to private tutoring.