- » Matthew Holt, Midnight All Day: Notes on Mitch Cairns’ New Work, exhibition text to accompany Mitch Cairns FINCHES at The Commercial Gallery, Sydney, 2015
- » Dan Rule, Mitch Cairns: Poetics and Pragmatics, Vault, Issue 11, 2015, pp20-23
- » Stephanie Berlangieri and Hannah Mathews, 'Mitch Cairns', Painting. More Painting, exh. cat, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2016, pp54-57
- » Mitch Cairns, 'Art Sets. The art that made me: Mitch Cairns', Art Galllery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2016
- » John Cruthers, 'Mitch Cairns - Stray Geranium', exhibition text, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney, 2016
- » Michael Snape, Mitch Cairns - Waylaid S T O O P, exh. text, The Commercial, 2020
- » Courtney Kidd, ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’, Artist Profile, no. 55, 2021
- » Daniel Mudie Cunningham, 'Mitch Cairns', exh. text, The National: New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Sydney, 2021
- » Bradley Vincent, ‘Spectral State’, 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2022, p.42
- » Mitch Cairns in conversation with Shane Haseman & Agatha Gothe-Snape, 'Man Rose', 14 August 2010, 138 Evans St, Rozelle, Sydney
- » Wes Hill, ‘Around Town’, Frieze, No. 186, 9 February 2017.
- » Wes Hill, Mitch Cairns — Free TAFE & Railway Cake, exh. text, The Commercial, Sydney, 2023
- » Mitch Cairns, ‘Self-Portrait as a Lemon Tree’, Thin Skin, exh. cat., Jennifer Higgie and Chloe Aridjis, eds., Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2023, pp. 58-59