Artists

2025 Tucson Erotica Art Show Featured Artist Bios

A.ARIAS

Pronouns: She/Her

A queer, first-generation artist of Mexican and Salvadoran descent explores identity through photography and poetry. Born in Yuma, Arizona and now based in Tucson, she captures femme intimacy and solitude. Her lens documents global political demonstrations while exploring themes of community and resistance. Working in both visual and written mediums, she weaves together stories of diaspora, drawing from her multicultural heritage to create powerful narratives of transformation.

Aaron Rayburn

Pronouns: He/Him

I create photographic art that I like to look at. Initially, I don’t think I considered that I would develop an individual style. But the point at which you recognize this about your own work seems to be an inflection point, where you truly begin to develop and cultivate a feeling of congruency in everything that you do. The risk, of course, is not being able to recognize if you have bad taste. And then you wind up with an entire portfolio of bullshit that nobody really likes but you.

Abigail López (LaBibis)

Pronouns: She/Her

Abigail (LaBibis) is a textile/fiber artist whose techniques have been passed down from many generations. Breaking the traditional norms of embroidery and turning them into erotic masterpieces. Line art of Kinbaku to Shibari are the main focus of her erotic work.

Alfred J. Quiroz

Pronouns: He/him

Alfred is a retired professor of painting and drawing. His work is about the politicalizing of sex by conservative groups. Utilizing overlapping “porn” imagery to create an unassuming images that is abstract but sexual.

Alyseandra Ruiz

Pronouns: She/her

My name is Alyseandra Ruiz and I am a self taught Tucson local female artist specializing but not limited to acrylic paint. I hope to spread body positivity and self love through my artwork.

Amaranta Petty

Pronouns: They/them

Amaranta is a collage artist who uses their work to explore the interplay between anatomy and eroticism. They’re currently experimenting with interactive art to invite the audience to step out of a voyeuristic role and into that of a participant.

Amber Michon

Pronouns: She/her

Amber is a mixed media artist and scientist who loves to learn and experiment in art and life. She feels inspired by almost everything, but especially the natural world, bright patterns and colors, and the complexities of being human. Since childhood art has been her favorite way to find joy, meditate, and process feelings.

Aptegwai

Pronouns: She/her

My name is Chloë and I’m a painter and glassblower living in Tucson. When I started getting into blowing glass I loved making curvy and sexual looking forms. I had fun exploring different ways to shape the glass to get them to look erotic, playing with creases and folds in the glass to create bodily curves.

Ariadna

Pronouns: They/She

Ariadna is a self-taught, queer, Venezuelan artist currently based in Houston, TX. They received a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Warwick and a certification for holistic sex education from ISEE. They focus on incorporating elements of play into their creative process while maintaining a dreamy romantic tone to their work, incorporating themes of intimacy, nature, and hedonistic pleasure through a queer lens, aiming to start open, and brave conversations about sex and pleasure.

Art87jr

Pronouns: He/him

Often described as “the man in five places at once” and “one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet,” Art87jr, also known as Jason Manuel Rodriguez, has been a professional artist in New Orleans and a traveling artist for over a decade. Bronx-born and Miami-raised, Jason is known worldwide for his “Creative Identity” series, primarily portrayed through paintings of the human figure dissolving into color bursts.

Arte Rosas

Pronouns:She/her

Jessi also known as, Arte Rosas is a painter who is inspired by the past. Arte Rosas holds traditional painting techniques dear and values high craftsmanship. With the use of color and Mexican artesanías Arte Rosas aims to show you the world through her eyes.

Audrey Waner

Pronouns:She/her

Audrey Waner is a mixed media sculptor with a focus on assemblage and fibers. Using collected and found objects, her work explores femininity, sexuality, and religion in a way that’s both whimsical and transgressive.

Bear Dancer Studios/Mark Dierker

Pronouns: He/him

Mark is a photographer who attempts to show the audience the wonder he sees when gazing through the viewfinder. His nude and erotic portraiture seeks an intimate view of his subjects, how they are feeling rather than just how they make him feel.

Bettina

Pronouns: She/Her

For decades Tucson based painter Bettina has been telling stories in her whimsical folk-art style. After receiving her BFA from Syracuse University, Bettina worked in commercial art, while also continuing to paint. A love of nature, all forms of media, animation, and artists Henri Rousseau, Modigliani are inspirations for her unique vision of the world around her.
Working with acrylics allows her to create a bold colorful style.

Betty Knockers Art

Pronouns: She/her

Colorful pinup illustrations featuring an array of femme body types. Inspired by pop culture, these portraits evoke a sensual vibe while celebrating yourself.

Brennan Rigg

Pronouns: Sovereign

Brennan Rigg is a visual artist and poet, born in 1995. His work is largely reliant on the language of allegory. He refers to traditions of the great symbolist painters, surrealists, and the Italian renaissance. As such, his work facilitates for engagement with subconscious and archetypal themes through depictions of the human form.

Burke Morrill

Pronouns: He/him

My name is Burke Morrill, and I have been an artist my entire life. In kindergarten I did a revolutionary crayon drawing of a bunch of penguins sledding on a snowy hill. I also did a farm drawing in 1st grade with a horse in a stable and when I asked my mom if she knew what animal it was, she said “a cow.” Since then, I stay away from farm animal art.

Canto Djauricco

Pronouns: He/him

Canto is a queer painter, photographer, and writer. In his other life, he teaches geography courses at the University of Arizona.

Cassandra Lilith

Pronouns: She/her

Cassandra is a figurative expressionist multimedia artist with a focus on what she calls “Vulnerotica”. She enjoys live painting at kink events and vanilla events alike, and is also a psychic, astrologer, performer, and slam poet.

Christopher B. Mooney

I’ve created erotic works reflecting both kinky and/or fantasy-based poses and classical cuddling and kissing scenes. Artists have old habits, and I need to get out from under mine. I like to create paintings as a tool to explore my sexual nature – areas of my life that need sexuality without the baggage. For me, art is a real exploration of my inner self.

Crisp 3000

Pronouns: She/her

Artist. Ever-evolving.

Cynful Arts

Pronouns: She/her

Cyndi is a queer artist based in Tucson, Arizona, who specializes in watercolor painting. With a vibrant use of color she explores identity, self-expression, and human connection, often drawing inspiration from personal experiences. Cyndi’s art continues to evolve as she pursues her journey of self-discovery and acceptance.

D.A.

Pronouns: He/Him

Just a guy who paints stuff he likes

Danie Woodward

Pronouns: She/her

My name is Danie. I am a digital artist and I like butts.

Dawn Marie

Pronouns: she/they/ella/elle

Dawn is a multimedia artist who finds fulfillment in experimentation through multiple avenues in their life. They have been exploring the intersectionality of kink, art and decolonization for several years and believes one of their roles in the revolution is to bring people back to their human-ness through expression. Dawn identifies as a brown, queer, non binary person, but ultimately prefers being called “baby girl.” 😉

Dax

Pronouns: They/them

Soviet Philly Native, Puter of Words in Weird Ways, Fister of French Fries, Seven time flower girl. Spy for the CIA or spy for the KGB? Who knows? But I think the answer got lost in that binary they’re trying to escape.

Deathsick

Pronouns: They/them

Katie, known as Deathsick, is a Tucson local artist. Their work is known for intricate fine lines inspired by nature, mythology, folk lore and the macabre.

deformphotos

Pronouns: He/Him

deformphotos is a gay artist in Seattle, WA exploring photography with a focus on illustrating the inherent beauty, sensuality, hilarity and joy in the candid. He shows his subjects as they truly are in a way seems often ignored in erotic art. Curated with the belief that everyone deserves to be celebrated for their own beauty, he maintains an openness to cultivating authentic representation while maintaining a minimalist style.

Douglas Fur

Pronouns: He/him

Douglas Fur is a Tucson based nationally exhibited photographer. Focusing primarily on conceptual portraiture his work aims to highlight his subjects while also exploring his relationship to the male gaze.

ELSTABO

Pronouns: He/Him

ELSTABO is a product of Brooklyn, New York. He has a B.F.A from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a major in Illustration.
Since 2002 his work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe with a strong focus on erotica.
His work has been published in various prints such as Best of Erotic Art (EAL/Eroarteurope), Aphrodisia: Art of the Female Form (Aristata Publishing),
and “The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today” (Erotic Signature).

Elvis Godwin-Snyder

Pronouns: He/him & they/them

Elvis Godwin-Snyder is a queer and genderqueer multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Tucson. Over his 27 years, they have found themself highly interested in creation and experimentation. He describes his style as “surrealism without the realism” and enjoys exploring what it means to be an “artist”. He strongly believes that there is no wrong way to have a body and that can be seen throughout many of his pieces. Elvis is currently a student at the UofA and an intern at UAMA.

Everly Laveau

Pronouns: she/her

Everly Laveau is a silversmith, painter, and musician. Everly learned to silversmith at 19 in San Miguel de Allende, MX while simultaneously studying painting under post-impressionist painter Rita Torlen. She creates as to honor & share some of her deepest passions including humanity, sensuality, the human form, wearable art, the celebration of pleasure, & chromatics. Everly’s pieces are thoughtful & intimate with her aim being to “follow her feral muse exploring its nectarous edges”.

G. A. Zozaya Montaño

Pronouns: she/her

A multi-media artist with an interest in expression of sexuality and gender through art.

george

Pronouns: She/her

i made this for you

Hyejin Lee

Pronouns: She/her

The name ‘Girthy Gochu’ is a playful nod to her Korean heritage and a bit of linguistic humor. In Korean, ‘gochu’ means chili pepper, but it’s also used as slang for ‘penis (or wiener.)’ It adds a touch of whimsy and cultural reference to her art, blending humor with creativity. Each piece featuring ‘Girthy Gochu’ aims to bring laughter with clever innuendos, puns, and wordplay.

iamgooarts

Pronouns: He/him

My work explores the renewal and reinforcing of relationships to self, the erotic, and healing as a survivor of sexual violence, transphobia, and childhood trauma. It finds the beauty in things often pushed into shadow, speaks out loud the things that have been kept quiet. My art reflects my journey through healing and of reclaiming sensuality and pleasure and invites the viewer to see themselves in those parts of that same journey that they find themselves in.

IDoDoodlesToo

Pronouns: He/Him

IDoDoodlesToo is a self-taught digital artist who works out of Las Vegas, NV. He identifies as demisexual and is able to explore ideas and themes of sex and sexuality through his artwork and is interested in respecting sexy men enjoying their bodies and sexuality. He finds educating on sex positivity to be incredibly important and enjoys that art allows facilitation of this.

Jake Lawson

Pronouns: He/Him

Jake is a local desert dweller, much like the native horned toad, but not as cute and yet somehow hornier. As a young man with an obession to draw, he admired the classic works of “the greats” who daringly depicted the human form with finese and acuracy. Growing into his own as a painter and illustrator, Jake’s erotic creations are conjured out of realms more fantastical and are here to give you the feels of passion and seduction. Welcome and enjoy the sexy party!

Jeffrey McBride

Pronouns: Him/them

Jeffrey is a visual artist who loves being in creative spaces-observing and participating! His current art is a play of nature and the male form and the sexual energy contained in both! Although Custom Picture Framing is the main avenue of Jeffrey’s creativity, he also enjoys the figure drawing and painting sessions he hosts through his Yellow Rose Studios Gallery!

Jen "YaYa" McFarland

Pronouns: They/them

YaYa attempts to visually explain the tension between the devastation and beauty of being alive. My work is informed by a desire to make sense of personal life experiences: grief, childhood traumas, pains and loves.

Jenny Gomez

Pronouns: They/Them

Jenny is a multimedia artist that places self pleasure and erotic expression in their pieces. Their work often utilizes the self portrait as a love letter to the self and body.

Kara Synhorst

Pronouns: She/they

Kara has spent most of her life living, loving, and making art in Tucson. She is a sex-positive, body-positive creator who loves collaborating with couples to capture their connection photographically.

Kevin Bacher

Pronouns: He/him

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that “the soul in man is not an organ, but a light [that] shines through us.” As Kevin sees it, a photographer captures light in the form of digital pixels; but a portrait artist captures a glimpse of the soul shining through. His work focuses on figure photography, mostly in nature, with themes of reconnecting with that part of us that is natural and wild. It strives to reflect diversity in all forms, and to represent the full range of human sensual experience.

KJ Madrid

Pronouns: She/Her

KJ Madrid is multi discipline artist who enjoys creating abstract and alternative art whenever possible. She has studied art throughout her life and sees beauty in all forms and expressions. Sensuality and freedom to express sexuality is a way of living that is celebrated through KJ’s art.

Korina McNair

Pronouns: She/her

Korina has held a camera in her hands since the age of 7. She believes everything is art, everything is just composition. She loves to capture imagery in the moment making her natural surroundings her artspace.

Lauri Kaye

Pronouns:She/Her

I love exploring Tucson, discovering new coffee shops where I can settle in, sketching while savoring endless cups of coffee. My detailed hand-drawnings are layered with photography and digital color, often brought to life on metal prints. I’m inspired by subjects that need a voice—those often overlooked or deserving of a fresh perspective.

Lee Ann Conlan

Pronouns: She/her

Conlan is an award-winning visual artist with a focus on figurative work and anatomy. She has spent 35 years mastering the human form through painting, drawing, and sculpting. Her work, often created with hand-made paper, charcoal, and acrylic, is featured in private collections worldwide, including in osteopathic colleges. Recently relocated to Tucson, Arizona, Conlan has been honored multiple times for her powerful and cathartic exhibitions.

Luke Wilder

Pronouns: He/him

Luke Wilder is a Tucson based photographer, esthete, and wannabe vagabond. He has been keenly interested in photography since his childhood, with his first camera being a Kodak 110. His interests lie in photographing humans, architecture, landscapes, and street photography.

Mal Martel

Pronouns: He/Him

Marizó Siller

Pronouns: she/they

Marizó Siller is a filmmaker and Photographer. Much of her work is based in surrealistic visions and works primarily with film.

Matt Burgos

Pronouns: He / Him

Matthew works in colored pencil, music photography, and mixed media sculpture.
Recent projects involve creating wall sculptures by layering colored pencil drawings at depth. Some pieces make extensive use of mixed media.
In a hard shift in theme, there is a line of erotic art. Recent work involves creating large pointillism by means of stamp on canvas, paintings. Content range from boudoir to hardcore imagery.

Mia Clay

Pronouns: She/her

Mia Clay is a visual artist from Tucson. She likes to explore. She is open to collaborations and requests.

Michael Beausoleil

Pronouns: He/him

Handy and Handsy. I make things in all mediums.

Michael boyd

Pronouns: He/him

My work is in different mediums. I work most mostly in WOOD turning as well as life casting and small metal sculpture..

Munoz

Pronouns: He/him

Munoz is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of identity, sensuality, and vibrant self-expression. Using bold colors, surreal forms, and layered compositions, their practice challenges societal norms around gender, sexuality, and emotional intimacy. Their pieces often evoke feelings of liberation and curiosity, encouraging viewers to embrace complexity and vulnerability in themselves and others.

Nancy Peach

Pronouns: She/her

Nancy has spent 5 decades as a professional artist and transcendent painter of enormous canvases, portraying unapologetic, bold humans. Through masterful use of gold leaf, bold line, light, shadow and luscious oil colors, she meticulously captures their essence imbued with emotion and soul, bringing her figures to life and viewers into an intimate connection.

Nash

Pronouns: He/him

Nash is a professional artist living in Des Moines,IA. While proficient in many mediums, most of his erotic work is done in the form of linoleum block prints. Using the skill that he learned as a boy, he utilizes linoleum block printing to explore his fascination with the male body, male genitals, and male on male sex.

Olivier Dubois-Cherrier

Pronouns: He/him

Olivier Dubois-Cherrier is a French visual artist based in Tucson, Arizona, who has exhibited his work internationally. After spending years using wide open landscape as a source of inspiration for his philosophical questionings about human life, Olivier took, in 2023, a radical turn with his paintings and sculptures. He got obsessed with classical representations belonging to western art history that he revisits with the intention to walk away from the dystopian contemporary art world.

Patrick Clark

Pronouns: He/him

After a career in commercial photography, shooting for myself is much more satisfying and I enjoy working with others who want to create something that reaches into their soul. If you would like to collaborate on an image or concept I always need a muse who loves to create as much as I do.

Paulo

Pronouns: He/him

A self-taught photographer from Atlanta, Georgia, with two decades of experience, focusing on artistic nude photography. While my roots in photography run deep, my style is a unique fusion, crafted through years of absorbing the works of diverse artists and honing my skills in lighting and composition. My goal is to reclaim the nude female form as a subject of artistic reverence, celebrating its beauty and sparking meaningful conversations.

Phil Kelly

Pronouns: He/Him

Phil Kelly is a photographer exploring erotic expression, exploration and identity.

Photographer Juan Loza

Juan Loza was born in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico and started taking pictures in 2010. He has had a passion for Art and the natural world since he was a child. He grabbed a camera when he was in his 20s and since then he been creating beautiful wildlife and nature photography with the message of conservation. He also loves to photograph fashion and take family portraits. He loves to experiment with different types of photography including Film and digital photography.

Portia W

Pronouns: She/her

Portia Wilder is a blonde bombshell bohemian, Capricorn, sex positive artist, erotic entertainer, sculptress, and photographer.

Ren Buchness

Pronouns: They/them

Ren Buchness (they/them) is a contemporary artist & fat activist based in Tucson, Arizona. By combining painting & performance, they aim to question Western standards of beauty and create conversations that alter preconceived notions about the fat body.

Rick Bracht

Pronouns: He/him

Rick is an internationally published photographer located in Tucson specializing in “shooting people”.

roderick macdonald

Pronouns: He, Him

I’m a photographer based in Cambridge, UK. I work with models of all genders and none, and of every ethnicity. My recent work focuses on the sometime surprising places where gender, age, ethnicity, fetish and sexual preference intersect.

Ruben Urrea Moreno

Pronouns: he/him

Ruben Urrea Moreno is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the intimate intersection of sensuality and societal boundaries. With an appreciation for the raw beauty of nature, and the energy and magic of pagan love, Ruben’s erotic art celebrates complexity, and vulnerability of surreal desire with a purpose to inspire self expression, and provoke the eyes to widen, the retina to focus and the mind to tingle.

Sam Wright

Pronouns: She/they

Sam is a visual artist and teacher. She is concerned with artmaking as a fundamental human behavior and as a way of relating, beyond self-expression. They are interested in the relationship between pleasure and discipline, and transforming perfectionistic trauma responses through artmaking. They make gay theater, embroider, swim and lay around idly when they’re not making or teaching art.

Sara Mirasola

Pronouns: They/them

Sara has spent 18 years as an art nude model and sometimes she takes pictures too. She is NOT a photographer, she is an artist! (which means she has no idea what she is doing and just gets lucky sometimes.) She loves to play with the light and talk to the shadows. “Que sera, sera. Whatever will be will be.”

Shay M. Lopez

Pronouns: He/him

Shay is a multi Media artist working in Green Valley, Az.

Shea Zona

Pronouns: She/her

Shea Zona is an artist photographer, poet and creative maker. They graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelors of Fine Arts & Photography in May, 2019. Experimenting with a wide variety of photography and art throughout the years, they have experience in painting, fashion, building sculptures, jewelry making and fire dancing. Now they mostly focus on conceptual fine art, portraits and candid photography.

Shellucinations Art by Michele Morris

Pronouns: She/Her

I am a visual artist specializing in fantasy, unusual and erotic themed drawings and paintings. I work with watercolor, acrylics, colored pencil and mixed media using vibrant colors, very fine detail and abstract forms to bring my work to life. I am highly influenced by nature, and the human figure and I strive to normalize and empower sexuality and nudity, gender equality and freedom of expression in my work.

Shosh

Pronouns: They/them

Shosh is a trans artist and spiritualist residing in Tucson, AZ creating surrealistic paintings portraying the relationship between BDSM and the natural world. Their work centers queer and trans bodies, and creates vibrant landscapes where wildly-imagined pain and pleasure can be carried out safely. Looking at their work, you are allowed to be transported into this dreamland of queer desire, wonder, and playfulness. Shosh is currently accepting commissions for 2025.

Solomon Silva

Pronouns: He/him

I am a multidisciplinary artist whose work delves into themes of identity, transformation, and connection. Rooted in storytelling, my practice spans visual art, writing, and performance, exploring the intersections of personal experience and collective consciousness. I am fascinated by the ways memory, culture, and emotion shape our perceptions of self and the world. Through my art, I seek to create spaces for dialogue, reflection, and mutual discovery.

Stone Crow

Pronouns: She/her

Stone Crow is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work explores themes of sex & death. She uses photography, video and collage to create artwork blending the physical world with the realm beyond the veil.

Sydney Perrault

Pronouns: She/her

Sydney is an autodidact artist in Southern Arizona. Creating art has been a healthy outlet for her to process and heal through past traumas and poor self-image. Much of her art is inspired by nature and music, where she finds the most peace.

Trevor Mock

Pronouns: They/them

Trevor Mock is a a queer artist based in Tucson Az working under the name Gilty Boy. Trevor is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in lost wax casting and reverse glass painting. Their work is influenced by queer exploration, sexuality, and the natural world.

Troy Weaver Digital Artist

Pronouns: Mr.

Troy uses the female form as his canvass whether within or without the scene. He likes to explore and play with the human form within or without its fictional or normal environments.

Vanessa Phillips

Pronouns: She/her

Vanessa is primarily a ceramic artist. She combines functional and sculptural forms in her work, with a focus on nature and the female form. She tries to underpin the beautiful and grotesque in her work.

Velvet & Shadow

Pronouns: She/they

Velvet & Shadow is an experimental, day-dreamy photography business in Tucson, AZ specializing in Boudoir, Portrait & Event photography.  V&S was founded by Bella in 2019 to provide a safe space in the community for anyone wanting to experience a creative & uplifting boudoir photo shoot.  Velvet & Shadow started out in a small bedroom and has since grown into a magical photography studio located near Downtown Tucson. 

Void and Vespers

Pronouns: He/him

I am an artist and photographer with an interest in combining eroticisms with religion and horror.

Wei Wei

Pronouns: She/Her

Wei Wei, a Chinese-born artist, found her calling in the U.S., exploring Los Angeles and New Mexico before earning a Fine Arts degree in Tucson, AZ, with a focus on illustration. Inspired by dreams, fantasy, and raw emotions, her art aims to evoke deep emotional responses, from sadness to joy or even anger. Through her evocative creations, Wei Wei invites viewers to reflect on their shared humanity and explore their own emotions.

Z Becos

Pronouns: They/them

Z Becos is a queer, disabled, photographer with work characterized by otherworldly colors and visceral imagery that celebrates the collision of beauty and the macabre. A deep-seated appreciation for the duality of both the ethereal and disturbing nature of our world influences much of Z’s work.

Zena Carves

Pronouns: She/Her

Zena Carves is a printmaker whose work delves into the intersections of beauty, macabre, and folklore. Her hand-carved relief prints explore themes of femininity, identity, and storytelling, often blending intricate detail with bold imagery. She is drawn to the democratic history of printmaking and its ability to make art accessible to all.

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