Catherine Courtenaye draws upon historical artifacts and wildlife migration data to create her richly textured and colored map-like paintings. Her work employs an abstract language to communicate the dissonance between natural patterns and human infrastructure. Courtenaye is a widely exhibited artist with work included in the permanent collections of Boise Art Museum; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Oakland Museum of California; Tucson Museum of Art; Whitney Western Art Museum, Cody, Wyoming; and the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Award, and of a Montana Arts Council Artist Innovation Award, she was a TEDx speaker at the University of Montana. She earned an MFA in Painting/Drawing from the University of Iowa and a BA in English Literature from Colby College. Born in Madrid, Spain, Courtenaye grew up in a Foreign Service family, and she currently lives and works in Bozeman, Montana.