Exhibitions
YOU CAN’T TEACH ME NEW TRICKS | solo exhibit in UCSC mini-galleries | March 12th — 18th, 2026
“WHICH ONE OF YOU IS THE GUY?” | in Santa Cruz Art League “Beyond Closed Doors” | May 27th — June 5th, 2026
“DO YOU REMEMBER HOW IT FELT?” | in Santa Cruz Art League “Transmutation” | May 30th — June 7th, 2025
“Holding Hands at the End of the World: Exploring Queer Community Aid as Joy, Rage, & Revolution, and Applying it to Fight Climate Change” (now called WE KEEP US SAFE) | in UCSC’s SECOND Annual Student Climate Conference: Shifting the Story: Climate Vulnerability, Social Solidarity, and Environmental Justice | November 2023
“INVASIVE” and “Landing” | in the Sawdust Art Festival | June – August 2022
“Landing” | in the Festival of the Arts Junior Art Exhibit | June – September 2022
Publications in
Poetry, Non-Fiction,
& Art:
“HORROR MOVIE SUMMER” | Cul De Sac of Blood | 2026
“love poem with alive,” “CAPTIVE BOLT,” and “kendall roy celebrates new years eve” | Chinquapin Literary Magazine 47 | 2026
“called it” | RUNT MAGAZINE #3: Dogfight | 2025
“photo of Roy in Provincetown,” “dr. frankenstein wakes from a dream in which he was a boy again,” and “love line/good dog” | Chinquapin Literary Magazine 46 | 2025
“EXTINCTION” | The Offing | 2025
“COLOSSEUM” and “macbeth falls in love” | Chinquapin Literary Magazine 45 | 2024
“IT COULD BE LIKE THIS FOREVER: QUEER PUNK IN ORANGE COUNTY ’79 – ’82” | self-published zine | 2024
“imagine something solid, anything” | Kingfisher Magazine #3: Gumball Rally | 2024
“BEAST” | Vagabond City Lit | 2023
“CHOP” and 6 section divider / spot pieces | Chinquapin Literary Magazine 44 | 2023
“we used to sit in the backseat,” “ode to southern california,” and “SHIP OF THESEUS” | The New Wave Literary Journal | 2022
Education
MFA in Studio Art: Comics | SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | 2026-2028
BA Art + BA History of Art & Visual Culture + Minor in Film & Digital Media | UC SANTA CRUZ | 2022 – 2026
Employment /
Volunteering
(in the arts)
Office Assistant @ SAIC Visual & Communication Design Department | Fall 2026 – Present
Inventory Assistant @ SAIC Material Source | Fall 2026 – present
Teaching Assistant @ Cabrillo College Extension | Summer 2026
Classes: Write & Draw Your Own Comics (age 6-8, 9-12)
+ Drawing Skills for Technically Advanced Art (age 14-17)
+ Intro to Digital Animation (age 10-16)
+ Intro to Guitar (age 9-14)
+ Small Metal Jewelry (age 12-16)
Creative Engagement Specialist @ UCSC Center for Advocacy, Resources, and Empowerment (CARE) | October 2023 – June 2026
Editor-In-Chief @ Chinquapin Literary Magazine | September 2023 – June 2026
Volunteer Monitor @ UCSC Print Studio | September 2025 – June 2026
Shakesqueer at Subrosa Collective Member
Scene Revue | September 2025 – May 2026
– Visual designer
– Director of Julius Caesar
– Acting in Midsummer Night’s Dream & Romeo and Juliet
Twelfth Night, or What You Will | August 2024 – February 2025
– Visual designer
– Acting as Duke Orsino
The Heterofatalist Tragedy of Macbeth (read a review of the play here) | October 2023 – May 2024
– Visual designer
– Costumes coordinator
– Acting as Lennox/Fleance
Teaching Assistant @ Cabrillo College Extension | Summer 2025
Classes: Comics and Sequential Art (ages 9-12 & 13-17)
+ Drawing Skills for Technically Advanced Art (age 14-17)
+ Write and Draw Your Own Comics (age 6-8)
Graphic Design + Content Management Intern @ Thankful Greetings Co. | June 2024 – August 2024
Awards
Irwin Project Grant
November 2025
“SWEETHEART”
Eduardo Carillo Scholarship
February 2025
Scholarship Show — April 30th, 2025
Koret Research Scholarship
January 2024 – June 2024
my research project: It Could Be Like This Forever: Queer Punk in Orange County ’79 – ’82
Foley-Mendelssohn Travel Scholarship
summer 2023
studying women in the Viking age in Sweden and Iceland
Creative Commons Prize (Porter College)
December 2022
“OVERHEAD“
Scholastic Art Awards
Gold Key (2018) Silver Keys (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), Honorable Mentions (2018, 2020, 2021)
“Reflections” Award of Merit in Art
2019
