Zach Grear

Zach Grear (born 1984, San Francisco, CA, USA) is a self-taught writer living in Brooklyn. He attended San Francisco State University and graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. In 2010, he moved to New York City and quit his full-time job in 2018 to pursue his artistic practice. His work focuses on gay erotic imagery inspired by the gay porn he stole as a teenager. With his hand-drawn tattoo lines, he directly inscribes his own standard of beauty onto the depicted bodies. These alterations combine with vibrant floral collages to elevate gay sexuality to a divine realm. His art has been featured in the New York Pride Guide magazine, the Oslo Erotic Film & Art Festival, the AIDS Memorial T-Shirt, and the LaMama Galleria, among other venues.