Erina C. Alejo (Featured Artist)
Erina C. Alejo is an artist, researcher, and educator who constructs archives on labor, displacement, family, and communal history. Their lens-based ethnographic works incorporate performativity, social practice, and public space to center care, community action, and cultural preservation through their experience as a third-generation renter in San Francisco.
photo by Evelyn Anderson
Alyson T. Wong
Alyson T. Wong is an artist born and raised in San Francisco. She has worked in the animation industry for the past three years and explores the human experience through photography, illustration, painting, film/animation, and movement. Her work is a form of living inquiry that blends different visual disciplines and styles to reflect and explore the mysteries of the invisible. Alyson continues to focus on documentary photography and animation while currently working on a body of paintings in Oakland.
Kiana Honarmand
Kiana Honarmand is an artist born and raised in Iran. Her work addresses issues related to her cultural identity, violation of women's rights in Iran, censorship, surveillance, and the Western perception of the Middle East. Derived from her interest in different materials and processes, Kiana’s interdisciplinary practice features the use of digital fabrication tools as well as traditional methods of craft.
Forrest McGarvey
Forrest McGarvey is an SF based artist and writer. Born and raised in Hawai’i, he has a MA in Visual and Critical Studies and a MFA in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts. In his interdisciplinary practice, he examines how we use media to define our selves in our heavily technologized moment. He is interested in technology, and its effects on perception, culture, images, and performativity both on and off screen.
Marlene Yee
Marlene Yee was born, raised, and is currently living in San Francisco. She started out in pencil and ink illustrations, and evolved to using the X-Acto knife as her tool of choice due to the additional layered textural elements.
Jasmine Liang
Jasmine Liang is San Francisco born and raised and an undergraduate at San Francisco State University. On campus, she’s working towards more student activism in the arts as an undergraduate representative on the Art Student Union. Jasmine currently uses mapmaking as a form of memoir and documentation of the changing neighborhoods, borders, and populations of the city.
Juke Jose
Juke Jose explores sensitivities and nuances in relationships through the investigation of indeterminate spaces in the built environment. Informed by experiences, otherness, and his diasporic Filipino identity, Juke is an interdisciplinary artist and an architectural designer. Juke moved to the United States in 2013.
Claire S. Burke
Claire S. Burke was born in 1996 and has lived in San Jose her entire life. She pursued her passion for film photography and alternative/historical photographic processes at San Francisco State University, where she held two solo shows in the Mini Martin Wong Gallery and served as a curatorial assistant for the Fine Arts Gallery. She recently graduated and is continuing a yearlong daily series of silver gelatin lumen paper negatives as an observation of time.
Miko Lee
Miko Lee is a storyteller and teaching artist. She believes in the power of story to amplify voices. Miko's has an extensive background in theatre includes work at ACT, Berkeley Rep, & the Public Theatre. She is currently Executive Director of Teaching Artist Guild, and Lead Producer of APEX Express on KPFA Radio.
Ralph CR
Ralph CR is a second-generation Filipino American, born in California, and residing in San Francisco for the past 13 years. He’s been a film photographer since 2019, and has created a body of work from moments in his everyday life as a new artist. His early work has been featured in analog photography online group exhibitions, and he’s a current exhibiting member of City Art Cooperative Gallery in the Mission District.
Senny Mau
Senny Mau, 缪倩玲, an artist and curator based out of the Bay Area. Mau expresses herself through whatever mediums best articulate her concepts. Her work mostly focuses on identity dysphoria, growth, and life experiences. Mau is best known for her annual curated show Gallery for Broken Hearts, a Valentine's Day art show about love, love-loss, and healing. her work has been published in SF Weekly, Vice, Business Insider and The Hard Times.
Stephanie Gervacio
Stephanie Gervacio is from Salinas, California. Her ancestors come from the Bisayan islands and Luzon in the Philippines. She’s always loved making art; but lost touch with it. In 2016, she decided to focus on healing, gratitude, courage and joy and made a shift, moving to Oakland. Ever since then she’s been blessed with coming home to herself, connecting with ancestors, queer/Filipinx community, learning Eskrima, and more with the support of her art.
Sheri Park
Sheri Park grew up in Redwood City and is currently pursuing an MFA in Visual Art at San Francisco State University.
Shubhansha Agrawal
Born and raised in India, Shubansha is an artist living in San Francisco. After a successful corporate career in technology, Shubhansha spent the last year dedicating herself to art practice. Shubhansha works with oil and acrylic, drawing inspiration from her roots and the human form. In her figurative work, she looks to uncover the mindset, emotions, and unspoken feelings in current times.