ABOUT
JACINTA BUNNELL is a self-taught mixed-media artist and author in the Hudson Valley. She creates collage-based art from found and recycled materials, exhibits widely, accepts limited commissions, and publishes inclusive LGBTQAI+ children’s books and zines.
MIXED-MEDIA VISUAL ART:
Jacinta Bunnell is a self-taught mixed-media artist based in the Hudson Valley, New York. She builds immersive worlds from found objects, ephemera, paper, and recycled materials, drawing aesthetic influence from vintage toys and the uninhibited drawings of children. Her work blends collage, painting, printmaking, and assemblage to create evocative, narrative-driven pieces.
EXHIBITIONS & COLLABORATIONS:
Exhibits widely in galleries and cultural institutions, including Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Opus 40, Wired Gallery, Albany International Airport Gallery, CANO, DRAW, Secret City, ASK, O+ Festival, and Allegheny College.
Collaborates with musicians and independent creators on album art, music video art direction, and custom design projects.
Accepts a limited number of custom art commissions and hand-painted clothing projects each year.
PUBLISHED WORKS:
Jacinta is the author of inclusive LGBTQAI+ children’s books and queer coloring books, including A More Graceful Shaboom, Girls Are Not Chicks, and The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book, published by PM Press. She also creates independent zines and writes Latchkey Township, a Substack publication that explores art, nostalgia, and childhood independence.
TOURS & PROJECTS:
Has toured the U.S. and Canada with The Sparkle Kids Action Network and The Gadabout Film Fest.
Performed and collaborated with artists including Neko Case, Maeve End, Julie Novak, Irit Reinheimer, and Michael Truckpile.
Jacinta accepts a limited number of commissions each year for original mixed-media works, hand-painted clothing, and collaborative design projects. For commission requests, custom album art, or exhibition inquiries, please contact Jacinta with project details, timelines, and budget.
Whether it is designing seed packets for the Hudson Valley Seed Company, creating overhead projection shows for Neko Case intermissions, art directing music videos for Elizabeth Mitchell, or designing album art for Grammy-winning producer Dean Jones, Jacinta’s art and collaborations touch upon a desire in us to be more closely connected to tenderness. She believes in real handwriting, iced tea, small towns, her mom’s fruitcake, and having the same best friend since you are two.
Jacinta lives in a 200-year-old house in the Hudson Valley with Michael Truckpile, coyotes, old buttons, lilacs, and rhododendron bushes. She has been an educator and author for over 20 years, facilitating workshops at schools, conferences, shelters, and bookstores in the US and Canada on independent publishing, art, and gender in children's media. She has presented at Vassar College, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, the University of Washington, Bluestockings Bookstore, and more.
Her books bring queer and feminist ideas to kids (and the grown-ups who love them) through coloring books and children's media that celebrate gender expansiveness, girlhood outside the box, and joyful weirdness.
Hideaway Grove Apartment Complex by Jacinta Bunnell
SELECTED PRESS
Studio Visit: The Books & Paintings of Jacinta Bunnell
By Rebecca Mir Grady, 2019
“Anne Elizabeth Moore connected me with Jacinta Bunnell earlier this year, and I’m so glad she did! She makes awesome feminist and queer coloring books for kids and adults of all ages. I truly wish that they had been around when I was a kid.”
Las Niñas Pueden Ser Reyes (Girls Can Be Kings) - A Coloring Book I Wish I'd Had When I Was a Little Kid
By Lee Wind, 2019
“It's inspiring to see how powerful knowing real history that includes woman can be -- the story of Seondeok, told in one book, inspiring Jacinta's Spanish version of this book, and reaching out to all the readers (and colorers) to come! I'm very excited about this coloring book—it's absolutely something I wish I'd had back when I was a little kid!”