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Winsor Kinkade (they/them) is a queer artist, licensed bilingual therapist, and educator whose work weaves decolonial healing, art as resistance, and collective liberation on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone lands.
Education
Pacifica Graduate Institute, CA, PhD, Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies (est. 2028)
University of San José, CA, Master of Social Work, Counseling with Spanish-Speaking Communities, Children Youth and Families, graduated Summa Cum Laude (2019)
University of San Francisco, CA, BAS Communication Studies, Minor in Fine Art, graduated Cum Laude (2017)
Selected Exhibitions
El común: Nuestra lucha es por la vida, Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland CA (2026)
Resist: A community art show, River Studio, Santa Cruz CA (2025)
21st Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA (2025)
20th Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA (2024)
Santa Cruz Open Studios, Santa Cruz CA (2023)
A long way from here, Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco, CA (2023)
The Soft Animal of Your Body, The Apiary, Carpinteria CA (2023)
19th Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA (2023)
37th Annual Made in California Juried Exhibition, Brea Gallery, Brea CA (2022)
Connecting Community: Bridges to Understanding, Chan Zuckerberg Community Space Gallery, Redwood City CA (2022)
18th Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA (2022)
(415) Public Gallery, Youth Art Exchange, San Francisco CA (2021)
Solo exhibition, How Have You Been?, Woods Outbound Gallery, San Francisco CA (2021)
Hidden Figures, SFWA Gallery, San Francisco CA (2020)
It’s a Mafficking, Tiny Telephone Gallery, San Francisco CA (2019)
The Art of Pride: LGBTQQI Benefit Art Show, Blackbird, San Francisco CA (2018)
Thinking FWD, Thatcher Gallery, San Francisco CA. Recipient of Judges Choice Award (2017)
What Will Last, Giustina Gallery, Corvallis OR (2016)
Awards
California Arts Council Individual Emerging Artist Fellowship (2023)
Students Choice Award, Thatcher Gallery, San Francisco CA (2017)
“Decentering the core: Advancing decolonial practices to foreground Indigenous languages in community psychology” (2025)
“Leveraging cultural wealth: Responding/adapting to community needs during times of crisis” (2024)
“A culturally responsive Spanish-language intervention for grief among male, Latino farmworkers in California” (2024)
“El arte sana: Un enfoque holístico de la salud mental en comunidades desatendidas (Art heals: A holistic focus to mental health care in marginalized communities)” (2023)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Lectures and Courses
Medocino Art Center, “Art as Activism and Resistance” (July 2026)
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Professor for Graduate Course: Gender and Sexuality (2023 - present)
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Professor for Graduate Course: Community Mental Health: Concepts of Recovery, Wellness, Systems of Care and Advocacy Group Work in Clinical Settings (2023)
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Guest Speaker for Art+Architecture Lecture Series: Intersection of Art, Community Mental Health, and Radical Imagination (2021)
Universidad Nacional de Moquegua Peru, Guest Speaker for Masters of Social Work Class, “Relación entre cambio social y arte (Relationship between art and social change)” (2019)
Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg CA (2023)
Residencies
Watsonville Community Birth Worker Collective, Watsonville CA (2023 - present)
Campesina Womb Justice, Santa Cruz CA (2020 - present)
Rancho San Benito Farmworker Liberation Cooperative, Half Moon Bay CA (2021 - 2023)
Collectives
Visionary Art Collective, Interviews (2024)
Create Magazine, Curated Section, 1 (30), 120-123. (2023)
Shoutout Socal, Local Stories (2022)
Publications
Languages
Spanish — Fluent
English –– Fluent