About R. Stranger
R. Stranger (they/she) is a queer Jewish interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the SF Bay Area. Through engagement with various modes of storytelling—writing, photography, film, performance, book arts, and installation—their work centers queer experience, having/being a body, and the transformative quality of grief. Drawing on their grassroots community organizing background, Stranger’s art practice is heavily collaborative and multimedia in nature. They believe in the power of art as a healing and liberatory practice, and dream of the dismantling of settler colonialism everywhere, standing firmly for a Free Palestine.
Stranger holds a BLA in Critical Art Practices from Hampshire College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University. They live in Portland OR with their chihuahua mix Rugelach.