Cat Auburn has exhibited both locally and internationally. In 2016 her exhibition, The Horses Stayed Behind won the award for Best Regional Art Exhibition at the New Zealand Museum Awards. In 2010 she was the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Artist in Residence in Christchurch. In 2014 and 2015 she was the Tylee Cottage Artist in Residence with the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui and in 2015 she represented New Zealand at the TRIO Sculpture Biennial in Rio de Janeiro. She has completed an MFA at the BxNU Institute (UK), where her interest in site-specific research has drawn her into the museum collections and local histories of Newcastle Upon Tyne.