Kalie McGuirl is a queer visual artist based in Oakland, California. She works in many mediums, including paint, ink, paper, and printmaking. She is obsessed with accessible forms of image reproduction and how this allows images to permeate. Drawing inspiration from dreams, interior architecture, and plant life, Kalie’s work explores organic form and the beauty of the natural world.
C.V.
Group Exhibitions   
Around Back, Oakland, CA, September 2024
Today is the Greatest, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA, October-November 2023​​​​​​​
Tiny, Two Cats Gallery, El Cerrito, CA, August 2023
Language Arts Exhibit, Rock Paper Scissors Collective Gallery, Oakland, CA, August 2023
Queer Ancestors Project Resists!, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, July 2023
A Celebration of Queer Zines, Tamper Room, Fremont, CA, June 2023
Lakeview Library Art Show, Lakeview Library, Oakland, CA, January 2023
Merritt College Fall Portraiture Showcase, Oakland, CA December 2022
Shop-Up Pop-Up #3, Crisis Club Gallery, Oakland, CA October 2022
Network Symbiosis, Rock Paper Scissors Collective Gallery, Oakland, CA, June 2022
Collaborative project, Mer Tun, Dzer Tun: Armenian Diaspora Community Quilt, displayed at the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station, Glendale, CA, April-May 2022

Small Press Presence
Bay Area Queer Zine Fest, September 2024
SF Zine Fest, September 2024
East Bay Print Sale, December 2023
SF Zine Fest, September 2023
Bay Area Queer Zine Fest, September 2023
Pacific Pipe Pride, June 2023
UCSF Zine Fest, June 2023
East Bay Print Sale, December 2022
Oakland Printshop Fundraiser, December 2022
East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fair, December 2022
Bay Area Queer Zine Fest, November 2022
SF Zine Fest, September 2022
SFMOMA Book Bazaar, December 2021
Oakland Printshop Fundraiser, November 2021

Miscellaneous Honors
Queer Ancestors Project, 2023
National Queer Arts Festival Artist Panel, 2023
Letterpress Intern, Steelhouse, Rockland, ME 2015

Education
B.A. Bard College, 2018
b. Maine 1998

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