Cosimo Cavallaro is an Italian-Canadian artist, filmmaker, and sculptor. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Cavallaro is known for his numerous installation art pieces involving real cheese, including a performance with the iconic 1960s model Twiggy covered in Easy Cheese. In 1999, he created "Hotel Room 114", covering an entire New York City hotel room with 5,000 lbs of melted Swiss cheese. In 2001 "The Wyoming Cheese House", an installation in which a house was completely covered inside and out with 20,000 lbs of pepper jack cheese. In 2019, "THIS IS NOT A WALL", a large-scale installation consisting of a 75-foot-long, 6-foot-high wall made out of Cotija cheese along the American-Mexican border.