About Trinidad’s work:

Trinidad was born in the Philippines during Super Typhoon Gading in 1986. She is interested in the worlds and characters born from the erotic, cosmic, and macabre colliding with each other like waves in the middle of the sea.

Community Workshop Series:

Trinidad offers private writing classes for individuals as well as community art workshops based on sliding-scale dana (a form of generous giving or donation). Currently, these are only offered as digital or virtual classes via Zoom. Student enrollment is at capacity at this time. Please contact her for future opportunities.

Trinidad is currently unavailable for illustration commissions and commissioned comics projects. Her classes have also been postponed until further notice. Thank you.

Artist Curriculum Vitae

San Jose Museum of Art | Roots in the Air, Branches Below | Multimedia collective exhibit | 2009

San Francisco WAR Magazine | San Francisco, CA | Body | Oil pastel display & publication | 2009

Blackball Universe Gallery | Oakland, CA | A Match Made in Oakland | collective exhibit| 2013

South Bay Womyns Conference | San Jose, CA | Weaving Our Wisdom | Multimedia collective exhibit | 2013

Author M. Evelina Galang & Coffee House Press | Miami, FL | Angel de La Luna | book cover art | 2013

TAYO Literary Magazine | Arts & Culture, Issue #4 poetry & prose journal | cover art| 2013

California College of the Arts | Emanata: Comics Exhibit | San Francisco, CA | 2014

Bay Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, 1111 Minna | Rock The Box | newspaper box | 2014

Story Corps & Andy Warner | Library Of Congress | Elder Comics Anthology | 2014

Carayan Press | Kuwento: Lost Things | New York | Poetry and visual art anthology | 2015

California College of the Arts | MFA Comics Anthology | 2015

Sidekick Books | Over The Line | London, UK | Poetry comics anthology | 2015

I-Hotel | Pinoy Stories In Pictures and Words | San Francisco | Solo comics exhibit | 2016

Aklasan Fest 3 | Annual Punk & Hardcore Festival | San Francisco | Promo posters | 2016

Galeria de la Raza | Womxn Are Perfect | San Francisco | Multimedia art exhibit | 2016

Oakland Peace Center | The Sweet Medicine Mural Project | Oakland, CA | 2016

APATURE | Featured artist: Comics & Illustration Festival | San Francisco, CA | 2016

University of Illinois Press | Book cover art for AsainFail by Eleanor Ty | Champaign, IL | 2016

Rachelle Cruz | Book cover art | Riverside, CA | 2016

East Bay Meditation Center | The Sweet Medicine Mural Project | Oakland, CA | coming 2017

Stacked Deck Books | Queer Heroes Coloring Book | San Francisco, CA | 2017

NYIDA | Community illustration workshops | Berkeley, CA | 2017

San Francisco Zine Fest | Guest of Honor | San Francisco, CA | 2017

Pinxy Radical Imagination Reader | Book cover art | San Jose, CA | 2017

RADAR | Guest speaker and featured artist | San Francisco Public Library | San Francisco, CA | 2017

Kearny Street Workshop | Gods & Demons: Guest instructor | San Francisco, CA | 2017

Intersection for the Arts | Oasis for Girls | Guest speaker | San Francisco, CA | 2018

HEPPAC/Alameda Health Services | OPEND overdose prevention comics posters | Oakland, CA | April, 2018

SFMoMA | Transcribing Herstory: Contemporary Filipinx Voices | San Francisco, CA | May, 2018

The Nib | #MeToo in the Bay Area | Comics journalism | New York, NY | August, 2018

UC Berkeley | Amplify Conference: Storytelling For People of Color | Guest lecturer | Berkeley, CA | September, 2018

Root Division | Wander Woman | San Francisco, CA | February, 2019

The Nib | The Colonial Roots of Cheese Pimiento written by Malaka Gharib | Nonfiction comic | New York, NY | March, 2019

Drawn & Quarterly | Pilipino Komix reading | Montreal, CAN | April, 2019

McGill University | Pinay Power II | Featured guest and presenter | Montreal, CAN | April, 2019

DeAnza College | Queer and Now | Keynote Speaker | Cupertino, CA | May, 2019

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights | Night Out for Safety | Art poster | Oakland, CA | June, 2019

The Nib | The Origins of the Word “Bakla” | Comics essay | New York, NY | June, 2019

California Humanities | Queer Cartoonists: No Straight Lines | Art exhibit | Oakland, CA | June, 2019

STRUT | Queer Continent: Asia [re]defined | Art exhibit | San Francisco, CA | May-July 2019

Northwest Press | Theater of Horror edited by Justin Hall | Horror pin-up illustration | Seattle, WA | August 2019

Abrams Books | Drawing Power | Nonfiction comic | New York, NY | 2019

Silver Sprocket | Queer comics reading with Rosemary Valero O’Connell & Maia Kobabe | San Francisco, CA | 2019

The Contemporary Jewish Museum | Guest speaker with Astria Suparak & Megan Leppla | San Francisco, CA | 2020

Society of Illustrators | Women In Comics: Looking Forward, Looking Back with Trina Robbins | New York, NY | March-October 2020

IDW | Be Gay, Do Comics | Comics essay on Bakla identity | New York, NY | August 2020

Rose Metal Press | Field Guide to Graphic Literature | Essay on Comics Magic | Brookline, MA | forthcoming, 2021

{for poetry and short story publication history, please inquire}

Guest Lectures and Public Speaking

Radio and Public TV

KPFA Radio

KALW Radio

KRCB Radio

NPR

PBS

Schools and Universities

San Francisco State University

Stanford University

UC Berkeley

UC Santa Cruz

UC Davis

Mills College

DeAnza Community College

University of San Francisco

McGill University

Museums and Community Organizations

Oasis For Girls

Kearny Street Workshop

Intersection For The Arts

Oakland Peace Center

Asian American Art Museum

San Jose Museum of Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Pro Arts

RADAR

Galeria de la Raza

San Francisco Public Library

San Jose Public Library

Book Festivals and Comic Conventions

San Francisco Zine Fest

APAture

Bay Area Book Festival

Kearny Street Workshop

LitQuake

EBABZ

Alternative Press Expo

American Library Association Conference

Queer Magic Makers

Toronto Comic Arts Festival

Portland Zine Symposium

Long Beach Zine Festival