Cha Tori lives and works in the area currently described as Los Angeles, ancestral land of the Tongva and Chumash peoples. Tori’s work utilizes materials and practices that create friction with traditional Western forms of art making and representation. Their work is frequently presented as sculptural installations, and recently has used culturally and historically charged objects and materials such as a railroad spike, chain link fencing, and varieties of lawn grasses. Their practice engages conversations around landscape, capitalism, American identity, Whiteness, and apocalypse/survivance. Tori’s work considers how depictions and fantasies of landscape have found textual expression, which in turn has been strategically deployed to sustain settler colonialism, national security, and extractive industry.

Tori holds an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in Literary Studies from Middlebury College. Tori works as an artist and arts organizer. Their work has been exhibited at Flux Factory, Salem Art Works, The Floating Library, and Other Places Art Fair.