American, (b.1978)
Yvonne Cavanagh, a Kern County native, is a multidisciplinary artist with a strong background in ceramics. She earned her BA in Art with an emphasis in ceramics from San Francisco State University in 2003, followed by an MA in Education from the University of La Verne in 2010. In 2018, she completed her MFA at Azusa Pacific University.
From 2008 to 2010, Cavanagh co-owned Surface Gallery, where she represented nationally emerging artists. Her dedication to the Kern County arts community was recognized in 2011 when she received the Beautiful Bakersfield Award from the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce in the Arts Individual category.
Cavanagh’s work has been exhibited widely, including her solo museum exhibition, Liminal Space, at the Bakersfield Museum of Art (September 2018 – January 2019). In the summer of 2023, she was awarded a three-week artist residency at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts in Skopelos, Greece. Her exhibition, The Blue Door, was showcased at RAM Gallery in 2023 from work she created in Greece. Cavanagh currently has a piece in The Monterey Museum of Art’s inaugural Biennial Exhibition. She recently returned from a residency at StudioFaire in Nérac, France and is working on a new body of work for a solo exhibit in the spring of 2026 at RAM Gallery.
Yvonne Cavanagh 