Cali M. Banks is a lens-based artist based in Syracuse, NY. Working through experimental photography and filmmaking, her practice reclaims identity using auto-ethnographic approaches to explore personal and collective histories, intimacy, and expanded definitions of Indigenous art. She is interested in image-making as a record-keeping tool that can be manipulated to recreate memory, history, and healing.

Cali holds an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA from Allegheny College. She manages communications at Light Work and teaches at Syracuse University and Penumbra Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Art Basel Miami and the Everson Museum of Art, and published in Nueva Luz, The Hand Magazine, Der Greif, and Rolling Stone France. She is a 2024 En Foco Fellow and a 2026 resident at Vermont Studio Center.