Soft Portals

Aleo Landeta @aleolandeta

Aleo Landeta (they/them) is a trans and mixed-race visual artist and educator based in Oakland whose practice spans drawing, painting, installation, and public programming. Their work centers queer joy as liberation, drawing from lived experience and the communities that have held space for them to live authentically — and has been exhibited at MACLA, Bedford Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, and Jonathan Carver Moore, among others, with work held in the permanent collection of the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Recent support includes the SoEx Alternative Exposure Grant (2025), the King Artist Residency (2024), and the Homebody Fellowship at Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio (2022).

Angel A. Anjos @blueangelart

Angel A. Anjos is a multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, CA, exploring the trans and queer experience, resilience, and acceptance through figurative painting and ceramic sculpture.

Angela Zamora @mex4art

San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist Angela Zamora creates installations and sculptures influenced by their Mexican-American heritage. As a creator obsessed with cornhusks, they transform this familiar food item into a canvas that depicts the Mexican American experience, drawing on their auditory knowledge of living in Tijuana, San Diego, and San Francisco. Through weaving and transforming cornhusk with their family archive, Angela prioritizes ancestral heritage to foster a sense of belonging. Angela values community work, prompting them to create “Echarse Flores,” an art healing initiative offering free and accessible hands-on cornhusk flower workshops in Bay Area public spaces. Whether building with cornhusks or facilitating public art experiences, their goal is to create cornhusk narratives that explore the concept of where home belongs.

Statement: My work is rooted in the nostalgic understanding of my Mexican-American identity, as well as the significance of my primary sculptural material: Tamale Corn husk. As a multidisciplinary artist I strive to blend sculpture, stop-motion, and performance into my practice. I create sculptural worlds that tell stories linked to the Latin experience with cultural ties to masculinity and religion by regional influence. My work is moved by the auditory experience of living in San Diego, San Francisco and Mexico and where home belongs.I learned the generational value of self-labor and gained insight into my fathers craft by shadowing him during his construction work. Throughout my work I seek to understand the complexities of macho mentality and how that is reflected onto my femininity. Ultimately, my art echoes my journey as a Mexican American daughter through the rich material of tamale corn husks.

Cara Esten Hurtle @caraessie

Cara Esten Hurtle is a trans artist living in Oakland, California. She has exhibited work at Metal Haus Gallery, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Queer AF, and Helvella Art.

Statement: As a queer trans woman, unspoken desire has permeated my life; I explore that desire and its long-term presence using the strange artifacts and glitches that emerge in old electronics. I eschew perfection in search of rough edges, I revel in weirdness, and create work that feels haunted and strange.

Connor Ashley Guterres @connoraterro

Connor Ashley Guterres is a self-proclaimed “whatever,” like Gonzo the Muppet. Art has always been a means of expressing this for them, and has become an even more important outlet as they’ve grown in their trans identity. Queerness and transness are central in their art practice as they work toward their BFA at Sonoma State University, concentrating on painting and drawing. Their work focuses on their personal experiences of gender, identity, and trauma, to let the viewer glimpse into a moment of their life. These elements are often exaggerated in Connor’s self-portraiture and work to connect with the audience on an emotional level. Their work has been featured in the Martin Wong Gallery, the Ridley Gallery, and the Sonoma State Gallery.

Coyote Park @coyotepark

Coyote Park (b.1999, Rota, Spain) is a Two-Spirit multimedia artist and visual storyteller based in Los Angeles. Park comes from Yurok, Karuk, German, and Korean descent and often works with themes surrounding identity, diaspora, and kinship. Park's photographic work is an exploration of land - body relationships, world building, and indigenous/trans futurisms. Most notably, his photographic exhibitions "My Own Private Rodeo" and "I Love You Like Mirrors Do", are inspired by his homelands and queer intimacy. His work has been exhibited nationwide and internationally alongside artists such as Pixy Liao, Clifford Prince King, and Texas Isaiah. Park has photographed for OUT Magazine, G-Star, Diesel, Paper Magazine, GQ, Calvin Klein, amongst others. They work both remote and on set for commission based projects and editorial assignments. Outside of their commercial work, their deepest love in photography is found in their personal documentary-style work and with public art shows. Park has given lectures at Stanford, CSULB, CSULA, Dartmouth, USC, UH Manoa, Rutgers, SVA, Parsons, CSUN, and UCLA. He holds a BFA in Photography from Parsons, a certification in Queer Curating from NODE Center for Curatorial Studies, and is currently going back to grad school at CalArts for his MFA.

Duma Mock @mockthings

Duma Mock is a sculptor living in Oakland, California. She works primarily in wood, metal arts, ceramic, and textiles in a seasonal rotation. She works a day job as preparator for SFO museum and teaches and makes art at the Crucible in West Oakland. She loves the smell of the bears at the Oakland Zoo.

Statement: I create sculptural props: objects that have an aura of narrative without collapsing into Story. Beginning with a form that charms and repels me, I collapse my experience of that form into the prop in its slanting articulation. I am drawn to the gaudy tool and the utilitarian adornment; I love side chairs that were never intended to be used. I celebrate craft, queerness, and the pathetic. A technical mistake is always an opportunity for adornment; adornment is always an opportunity to be gay. I am seeking out a soft pivot in service of a trans liberation. To use these works to build a common vocabulary of slanted signifiers to point towards what that liberation might look like. Through sculpture, I circumscribe fantasies that are both familiar and secret.

Eden Kinkaid @queergeog

Eden Kinkaid (they/them) is a human geographer, trans philosopher, and artist hailing from the United States and recently relocated to Toronto, Canada. Eden’s creative work experiments with themes of trans embodiment, queer space, nature, landscape, and visuality. They work in collage, visual, and multimedia formats and occasionally in sculpture, with a focus on using archival material and ephemera to rework and reenvision existing forms. Eden’s emerging body of creative work has been published in you are here: the journal of creative geography, Colour into Focus: Queer and Trans Collage, and is under development for an artist book with NONMACHINABLE Press. Their work has been exhibited in galleries in Brookyln, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Denver, CO, Tucson, AZ and Toronto, ON.

evan pettiglio @mellowecho

Evan Pettiglio is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in California. They earned an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. Their research-based sculpture practice is informed by geology, quantum physics, and zen buddhist theory and guided by a formative interest in the interwoven nature of time and place. Their work has been exhibited at Minnesota Street Project, Your Mood Gallery, 100 Million Space, and 120710 Gallery. Their writing has been published in Spectra.

Statement: Occupied by the question of time, my work with stone, glass, metal, water, scent, light and sound resides in spaces between the slightness of human time scales and the unyielding reality of Deep Time, searching for points of intersection. Guided by the nature of stone as palimpsest record of time; of earth memory, I consider the significance of value in relation to the fluid nature of time and place. Knowing time to be interwoven with place I work in pursuit of deepening questions about the fundamental elements of our universe. I welcome and protect the mysteries time offers, mapping the edges where earth’s time meets human cultural products. Informed by the study of geology, chronobiology, quantum physics, and zen buddhist theory and absorbed by the spirit of archive my work meditates on time’s nature as both a physical reality and an equally metaphysical entity.

Finn Jordan @finnfinnfinn1122

I was born in Portland, Oregon and live in Oakland, California. My work is focused on exploring death, gratitude, and hidden parts of myself and our world. I am curious about what we leave behind. I am curious about how systems of oppression have weaponized our relationship to death, anger, envy, trust, control, and to each other. I am curious about how exploring death can bring a deeper gratitude for being alive. I am curious about how exploring death can reveal the true gravity of loss, and how important it is to take care of each other while we still can.

Gericault De La Rose @im.ubae

Gericault De La Rose is a queer trans Filipinx, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. While developing her art practice, she worked as a Co-curator of Philippine Objects at the Field Museum of Natural History where she organized a series of monthly events called Pamanang Pinoy using the objects within the collection as conduits for community discussion. After graduating with a BFA with an emphasis in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she formed an artist collective, Export Quality, together with other Queer Filipinx alumni. De La Rose has also showcased her work in group shows in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Johnson City, New York, and Toronto. De La Rose attended the ACRE residency in Steuben, Wisconsin and the HATCH artist residency for the Chicago Artist Coalition in 2020. In 2022, she received the San Francisco Foundation’s Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award and received her MFA from UC Berkeley in 2023. Most recently, she had her first solo exhibition at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago and finished her artist residency, Arrozidency, at Minnesota Street Project in 2024.

Statement: Within her work, De La Rose explores how her culture is consumed, digested, and regurgitated. Particularly concerned with how the Philippines’ colonial trauma is metabolized, she seeks to negotiate the formation of a shared national and ethnic identity within the archipelago and the diaspora while also remaining critical of the tendency to homogenize and over-romanticize her ancestry. In a global political landscape where misinformation and historical revisionism is broadcasted in media, De La Rose thinks through how delusion can function as means to rethink, reimagine, and reconstruct oneself in society. Primarily engaged in performance art, De La Rose plays with histories of spectacles and practices of intimacy in order to regain a sense of bodily autonomy. She draws upon Philippine folk-lore and cultural traditions, interweaving them with art historical painting compositions and sculptural tropes to form her work. Within a “post”-colonial world that perpetually reinforces the collective amnesia of Queer, Trans, and Indigenous narratives, she intentionally creates pieces positioned to disrupt a Eurocentric Art Historical Canon.

hamsa fae @hamsalefae

hamsa fae (b. Los Angeles) is a Vietnamese-American artist who works across expanded performance, time based media, and socially engaged art. Her work has been presented bi-coastally at venues including Minnesota Street Project, Telematic Media Arts, and tiat. She has delivered talks at the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley, the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the San Diego Asian Film Festival. Her writing has been published and featured in diaCritics, Vănguard, the Transgender Law Center, and the Yale School of the Environment. She is the Founder and Organizer of the AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship in Southern California, supporting the development and visibility of queer AAPI artists.

Statement: With a decade of practice in land-based animism, she positions the body as a site of re-matriation. Her work emerges from the political and spiritual mundane of trans womanhood. She mobilizes live streaming, durational bodily transformation, and the nude form as instruments of protest. Past works engage land sites as co-performers: creeks in Mount Shasta, volcanic rock walls in Hawai’i, and coastlines in San Diego. She invites audiences to participate in her site-specific interventions, archiving collective ritual to confront the erasure of third gender peoples. Her eco-performances extend into multimedia installations that function as contemporary altars and afterlives. Drawing on internet nostalgia and the post-Anthropocene, she re-animates organic materials with technological interfaces to disrupt relationships between observer and screen. Reclining, kneeling, or gazing upwards, the audience completes her work. Intimacy becomes a controlled environment where the body negotiates power with surveillance.

Jada Simone Haynes @https://www.instagram.com/blkvang0gh/

Haynes was the recipient of the Freemon Gadberry Award in Art and the Freemon Gadberry Award in Sculpture in 2022 and received the New York Studio School scholarship within that same year. Haynes' work has been exhibited at notable venues such as the Afrofuturist Center, Arden Fair, Bass & Reiner, Gearbox, Gallery 1202, Holland Project Gallery, The Little Raven, Mercury20 Gallery, Root Division, The San Francisco Gallery, Textile Arts Center, WAL Public Market Gallery, and represented in the Letterform Archive Collection. They earned a dual Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Design from the University of California, Davis. During their time at UC Davis, Haynes served as Lead Director of the Basement Gallery and completed an independent honors thesis under the mentorship of Azin Seraj and Darrin Martin. Haynes currently resides and practices in the Bay Area, where they contribute to the field as a Collections Associate at the Letterform Archive.

Statement: Jada Simone Haynes (San Ramon, CA) is a Black non-binary archivist and multidisciplinary artist who is deeply engaged in exploring the nuanced aspects of Black queer existence, resistance, and resilience. In their creative practice, they are particularly drawn to abstracted images and the transformative potential of knotted and knit fibers to serve as conduits for the density of personal and collective grief, security, memory, and desire. These vessels and tapestries that weave fibers, verses, and vision create a constellation of experiences that delve into the textures of these themes and their futures.The work reflects a dedication to storytelling through various dimensions, a convergence that’s committed to blending the realms of archives, phenomenology, and art practice where the past is dynamically engaged and inherited by the present.

Jillian Mae Seversky @imaebedoingart

Jillian Mae Seversky is a Non-Binary, Trans, and Queer Mexican ceramicist. They Received A BFA in Arts Education with a concentration in Ceramics from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Where they work and instruct at the Turchin Center for Visual Arts. They have exhibited at NCECA and in local galleries across North Carolina and Tennessee. Such as The Third Place, The Looking Glass Gallery, The Nth Gallery, Florence Thomas Art School, Smith Gallery at The Schaefer Center, The Watauga Arts Council, and Scenic City Clay Arts. Seversky is a past studio assistant for Andréa Keys Connell. Served as an assistant at the Utilitarian Clay Conference. In addition to being a two-time Pentaculum Resident, and a 12-week Work Study at Arrowmount School of Arts and Crafts.

Statement: Every member of my family was born in a different state. Other ancestors fled their home countries and migrated elsewhere. These grand departures and arrivals are a throughline ever-present in my work. I grew up in North Carolina, moving around often, always within the constructs of state lines, but much farther in other ways. As I drifted off to sleep as a child, I was told stories of far-off homelands. The rolling hills of Sicily, California, Guadalajara, and upstate New York blend and echo where I live now— the mountains of western North Carolina. Here I have made a home of my own, where I have been brought back to ancestral earth and red clay. The feeling of clay under my fingernails is a perfect ritual, which holds close my Mexican heritage, my Queerness, and a childhood in rural North Carolina. Within my sculptural handbuilding practice, I beckon my ancestry and honor the stories we have been told and, most importantly, tell ourselves. I am informed by my desire to unpack every moving box my family has ever sealed, the ones I lug near and far. Resting within these boxes are large accumulations of memories, objects, great joys, and deep sorrows. My sculptures lay the full breadth of our contradictions on the floor, hang them on the wall, and place them on the kitchen table. To intertwine histories with the pursuit of finding a home for them on a ledge, in a cabinet, nuzzled into couch cushions, dripping from a faucet, within your jean pocket, or adorned on collar bones. My practice is a pursuit informed by my desire to witness, to hold, and to unclog the drain, even if you must reach your hand into the murky water below.

Kai Tse @artkaisucks

Kai Tse is a multimedia artist based in the Bay Area. He received his BA in Studio Art at San Francisco State in 2022 and has been showing work all throughout the Bay ever since. His practice centers on airbrushing and textile tufting. His work is grounded in process and craft, emphasizing technical precision. The work pushes with bold color palettes, sharp line work, and meticulously built surfaces. The exploration of themes revolving around animal and human interconnection brings to light the similarities and relationships between humans and animals. Kai'a work is a love letter to the dance of balancing playfulness and morbidity. (Photo by Andy Antezana)

Kilaine Shelley @kilaineshelley.studio

Kilaine Shelley is a queer, disabled painter and draftsman based in Orlando, Florida. Their introspective work reconciles past and present to address their relationship with care, pain, and illness. They graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, specializing in drawing and painting. Their work has been shown at the Kennedy Center, The Chained Gallery, and UCF Gallery.

Statement: My work contrasts unforgiving ink washes with tender, memory-like charcoal and acrylic washes to position the body within intimate spaces, addressing the vulnerability of living in a queer and disabled body. Through fragmented layers of pencil and paint, my work invites the viewer into private everyday scenes, expressing a surprising tenderness that can come alongside inhabiting a body with overlapping and at-risk identities. In response, I ask the viewer to engage with their own relationship with care, illness, power, and pain.

Kit Robbins @kitrobbins_art

Kit Robbins is a queer, trans/nonbinary, multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland who focuses primarily on sculptural woodworking and metalworking. Their work often explores themes around their transgender identity, societal perceptions, as well as chronic pain. Their artistic journey began in childhood, learning the craft from their father and grandfather.  Robbins earned a BS in engineering from Cal Poly and worked as a product designer before recognizing their deep need to explore their creativity in a more tactile way, at which point they pivoted to more hands-on work, managing a large wood and metal shop and fabricating architectural details for commercial spaces. This unique background, blending classic woodworking techniques and mechanical engineering skills, informs their ability to create imaginative forms that often blur the lines between sculpture and functional furniture. Their artistic process is instinctive, often allowing the form to evolve spontaneously, influenced by the raw material itself. Their use of biomorphic forms is inspired by the complexities of human identity vs. societal perceptions and the process of transformation. By incorporating organic shapes and fluid lines into their sculptures, they evoke a sense of movement and evolution, inviting viewers to contemplate the fluidity of gender, identity, and self-expression. Robbins's portfolio includes a range of sculptural furniture, lighting fixtures, and other pieces that showcase their understanding of materials and form. They have exhibited and sold their work at various venues and events, including West Coast Craft, Renegade, and West Elm, as well as in Bay Area boutiques and galleries like Therapy and Wild Child.

leonard reidelbach @justhavefunandbeyrself

Leonard Reidelbach is an artist, educator, and organizer from Richmond, VA; who lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Leonard uses silkscreen to make narrative figurative paintings and sculptural installations that complicate visibility and connection through a trans lens. Reidelbach holds an MFA in Visual Art from San Francisco State University (2023). He has exhibited at ICA SF, Berkeley Arts Center, Kala Institute, Hashimoto Gallery, CUBE Space Berkeley, and Adobe Backrooms. He was a recipient of the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award and participated in Recology’s Artist in Residence Program. He participated in fellowships at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Kala Institute, and Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo Art Center.

Statement: My work opposes the legislature's strategy to weaponize trans rights, pushing a fascist agenda threatening everyone's privacy and autonomy. The media intentionally strips trans narratives of nuance and pleasure- qualities that define humanity. By controlling the viewer’s access and making seeing an active process in my work, I invite the audience to the joy that comes from opacity. I use silkscreen to create variations in matrixes. Pattern carries a history that I reconfigure physically, bringing in the infinite potential of past and future realities. New ways of seeing and relating are a way to invite a more welcoming future. Not only for transexuals, but for all of us as we navigate a global shift in privacy, information, and access to truth as a collective.

luka vergoz @lukavergoz

luka vergoz is an Oakland-based artist who finds, alters, and arranges material scraps into sculptures and installations addressing physics, language, and the transsexual experience. They hold a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from UC Davis. A 2023-4 Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts, Luka has shown work at ICASF, Root Division, Pelota Gallery, and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

Statement: Searching for specificity in abstraction, my work begins with discarded scraps, matter that is a byproduct of construction or a casualty of time. All matter used to be something else before it was this and will become something else after it’s done being this. All making is unmaking. Drawing on my experiences as a transgender person and my understanding of matter’s transformation over time, I place priority on the process of thingness–how seemingly static objects not so much “are'' as “happen.” Zoom out and consider the continuous shuffle of matter over time on a planetary scale. Zoom in to observe how subatomic processes maintain the forms we interact with at our bodily scale. If all being is happening, ‘form’ as noun becomes ‘form’ as verb. ​ I release boundaries of works in space and time, allowing components to expand and collapse, to break apart, combine, shuffle and change—presenting and re-presenting themselves in multiple stages of their perpetual becoming

Princess J @princessjjunebug

Juneau Macphee (b. 1990) is an interdisciplinary artist, illustrator, and graphic novelist hailing from Dawson City, Yukon. She co-organizes the northern comics collective Hecate Press, where she edited their recent ‘Mixtape’ anthology. With an educational background in literature and mythology, coupled with studying at the Yukon School of Visual Arts and Max the Mutt College of art and design, Juneau flexes her story-telling muscles through creating rich visual narratives that synthesize her own personal mythos with the broader cultural stories she lives within. Her personal work has been featured in The Northern Gaze anthology by Hecate press (Yukon), as part of Sum Gallery for the Queer Arts festival (Vancouver, BC), and in Arnica Artist run center (Kamloops, BC). She has spoken on panels at Angouleme International Comic Festival (Angouleme, France) and Helsinki Comics Festival (Helsinki, Finland), and received various Yukon grants such as the Advanced Artist Award and Culture Quest. She has recently finished her first children’s book, and is currently working on a larger graphic novel.

Ray Gonzalez @rays_prints

Ray Gonzalez (he/they) is a trans/queer/disabled Cuban-American emerging artist who grew up in South Florida and now resides in Oakland. He attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for a degree in Stage Management, and now uses their arts education for a second career as a Linoleum printmaker. Gonzalez believes in the connection between us all, in community as humans and as members of our natural world. As an artist, they strive to reflect the beauty of human interaction with nature and explore a path to repairing these connections for an enduring future.

Statement: “Self-Portrait of a Mortal Man” is an alternative perspective on the threshold of life after death. It’s about how life continues when all hope seems lost. We persevere. The seeds sown in one’s life transcends their time on this side of that portal. “I thought about how my actions impact the next phase of life. What seeds will I leave behind when I’ve crossed to the other side?

Ru Lyons @rubb3rtree

Statement: The concept of “biological reality” is frequently misrepresented in conservative propaganda to delegitimize transgender identities. As a transgender painter with a background in the natural sciences, I am interested in exploring notions of biological reality in my work. I paint in layers, letting parts of the underpainting and earlier iterations of my compositions show through. Using this obstruction method, I paint seemingly unremarkable organisms and present them as windows or portals to queer self-realization; Or, more specifically, conduits for epiphanies about the joy, sadness, and laughing-crying absurdity of being transgender in this current political moment.

Sarah Evenson! @saltysweetsarah

Sarah Evenson (they/them/theirs) is a gay, transgender print-media artist living and working in Minneapolis, MN. A 2026 McKnight Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, they celebrate the book as a living, democratic form by incorporating new media and including widespread distribution within a global network of readers as an intentional part of their art practice. Their most recent project, the zine-by-mail subscription service GAY MAIL FRIEND!, ships work by queer/trans artists from the Midwest to a world-wide audience. Sarah will trade zines with anyone who asks—please message them!

Statement: I root my animations in screenprinting because it is a medium where the pressure needed to create a print comes from the same areas of the my body that were most affected by my top surgery: the chest, arm, and upper back muscles. As a gay, transgender person who does not desire a linear female to male transition, I am interested in depicting transformation as liminality, a tender condition of perpetual shift. When my screenprints embellished with graphite are treated as animation cells and looped together, they produce images of quaking, quivering bodies in a state of here-yet-not-yet-here.

Sea O Dax @sea.dax

Sea Dax is an interdisciplinary artist and maker who currently lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio. He acquired his BFA at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2012. Sea has exhibited at many galleries including Wavepool Gallery (OH), the Contemporary Arts Center (OH), Thrd Space (TX), Limner Gallery (NY), and Artemesia Gallery in Windsor (AU). He is a recent Master of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Cincinnati DAAP. He began showing his ever-evolving collection of works titled trans[land]scapes in 2024, which has since expanded into a still life practice examining “trans still lives.”

Statement: Rooted in an enduring preoccupation with memory, Dax’s work traces the spaces, communities, and relationships that have shaped his sense of self. Within trans[land]scapes, he attends closely to trans-centric spaces he exists within, where identity is not only reflected but given safe space to be formed. Dax honors the environments that make transformation possible, rendering them as both witness and catalyst for trans experience. Beyond this project, Dax considers transition metaphorically and materially, asking us to consider the fruitful repository of trans allegory existing already within art historical spaces, religious texts, and art making methodologies.

Éamon McGivern @e_mcgivern

Éamon McGivern graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 2012, attaining a BFA with Honors in Painting. During his course of study at Pratt, he was one of two students selected to study traditional painting and printing making techniques at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan, for six months. In 2016, he attained an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. He has been an artist-in-residence at Residency 11:11 in London, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Nebraska, the Tom of Finland AiR program in Los Angeles, and the Root Division Studio Program in San Francisco. Éamon is currently based in the SF Bay Area, where he has been a two-time recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant, had solo shows with the GLBT Historical Society Museum and the Tenderloin museum, has been commissioned for public arts projects with the Castro Cultural District, and has been included in numerous group shows around the city including the De Young open. He is an active member of the Bay Area Arts community, working to uplift transgender voices in the arts by organizing panels and curating art shows of local and international transgender artists.

Aleo Landeta @aleolandeta

Aleo Landeta (they/them) is a trans and mixed-race visual artist and educator based in Oakland whose practice spans drawing, painting, installation, and public programming. Their work centers queer joy as liberation, drawing from lived experience and the communities that have held space for them to live authentically — and has been exhibited at MACLA, Bedford Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, and Jonathan Carver Moore, among others, with work held in the permanent collection of the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Recent support includes the SoEx Alternative Exposure Grant (2025), the King Artist Residency (2024), and the Homebody Fellowship at Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio (2022).

Kit Robbins @kitrobbins_art

Kit Robbins is a queer, trans/nonbinary, multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland who focuses primarily on sculptural woodworking and metalworking. Their work often explores themes around their transgender identity, societal perceptions, as well as chronic pain. Their artistic journey began in childhood, learning the craft from their father and grandfather.  Robbins earned a BS in engineering from Cal Poly and worked as a product designer before recognizing their deep need to explore their creativity in a more tactile way, at which point they pivoted to more hands-on work, managing a large wood and metal shop and fabricating architectural details for commercial spaces. This unique background, blending classic woodworking techniques and mechanical engineering skills, informs their ability to create imaginative forms that often blur the lines between sculpture and functional furniture. Their artistic process is instinctive, often allowing the form to evolve spontaneously, influenced by the raw material itself. Their use of biomorphic forms is inspired by the complexities of human identity vs. societal perceptions and the process of transformation. By incorporating organic shapes and fluid lines into their sculptures, they evoke a sense of movement and evolution, inviting viewers to contemplate the fluidity of gender, identity, and self-expression. Robbins's portfolio includes a range of sculptural furniture, lighting fixtures, and other pieces that showcase their understanding of materials and form. They have exhibited and sold their work at various venues and events, including West Coast Craft, Renegade, and West Elm, as well as in Bay Area boutiques and galleries like Therapy and Wild Child.