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 exhibited at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art (Davis), Berkeley Art Center, 120710 Gallery (Berkeley), Pence Gallery (Davis), and Worth Ryder Gallery (Berkeley). Kirsch is a July 2026 resident at Winslow House Project in Vallejo. They were a participant of the Queer Ancestors Project in San Francisco and recently had a solo exhibition at East Bay Creative Lab in Oakland. Kirsch is the recipient of the UC Davis inaugural Letters & Science Award for Excellence, the Fay Nelson Award, and the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Award from BAMPFA. Kirsch’s work has been included twice in the Davis Film Festival. Their film “play pretend feelings” received a Jury Citation Award.