Mara Ramirez is an Ignatz nominated interdisciplinary artist and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2018, they co-founded Freak Comics Collective, and in 2020 they joined efforts to organize Soft Screen: an experimental animation screening series and social practice. They are a regular contributor to Chapter 510 & The Department of Make Believe as a professional illustrator for stories that youth have written, and have a recurring comic strip called Luteal Phase in the Quarterly Magazine Broken Pencil. In their personal studio practice, Mara plays with time, abstraction, and the action of mark making as a means of distorting & clarifying their own experiences through the filter of emotion and memory.
SELECTED PRESS: Nat. Brut, THE COMICS JOURNAL, SOLRAD, Four Color Apocalypse
