Gracianne Kirsch is an interdisciplinary queer and trans artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, poetry, and video. Kirsch investigates queer temporalities and non-linear ways of knowing. They use memory as a language, filtering present experiences through the past and vice versa. Kirsch's work finds emphasis in depicting domestic objects and trans bodies. 

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Kirsch's art aims for a queer and trans revision of time and space, reimagining familiar dwellings and bodily forms. The work acknowledges grief held onto by the body and trauma remembered within place.  

 

Kirsch is an Oakland-based artist. Kirsch received their BA in Art Practice and Social Welfare at University of California Berkeley in 2022, and their MFA in Art Studio from University of California Davis in 2024.​

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Kirsch's work has been shown at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the Worth Ryder Gallery. Kirsch has received the UC Davis inaugural Letters & Science Award for Excellence, the Fay Nelson Award from the department of Art and Art History at UC Davis, the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Award from BAMPFA for visual art, a Jury Award for "Play Pretend Feelings," screened in the Davis Film Festival, and has been published in Makeshift Magazine.