Tristan Crane is a bay area based queer artist, writer, and therapist (they/them, he/him) who's spent their career engaged in supporting clients of all backgrounds in personal growth, self-expression, and am dedicated to expanding people's viewpoints of transgender and queer viewpoints and perspectives.
My education includes studies in anthropology, psychology, and documentary photography. This background plus a lot of life experience informs my ongoing projects including 'Here', combining personal statements and portraiture of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming folk, and Queer Collections, a photography and interview series in collaboration with writer Zoe Rosenblum. I've been honored to document many weddings, commitment ceremonies, and take a selective number of bookings each year in this area.
Please contact me if you're interested in participating in my ongoing projects or wish to discuss other collaborations
I offer no-cost support and mentorship to student and emerging photographers depending on my availability, priority given to queer/trans identified BIPOC, trans, non-binary individuals.
Selected Shows/CV
2026 Wild Tongues, San Francisco, sponsored by Photo Saloon
2026 The Nature Show, Rosebud Gallery, SF
2025 Pride on the Coast, Mendocino Art Center
2024 Momentum, 2024 EBPCO Member's Exhibition, Oakland CA
2024 Trans Artists, Rosebud Gallery, San Francisco CA
2021 All of us All of us, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA
2019 EnGendering Change, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University CO
2019 ON OUR BACKS: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work, Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYC
2019 Identity, Transgender and Non binary Portraiture, Merced, CA
2019 Stonewall, 50 Years, Harvey Milk Center, San Francisco, CA
2019 Stories, Dab Art Online
2019 Bannable Offense, Somarts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Bay Area Big Shots, East Bay Photo Collective Group Show, Oakland, CA
2011 Men As Object, Reversing the Gaze, Somarts gallery, San Francisco, CA
Online
Autostraddle.com, NewYorkTimes.com, Curve.com, TheAdvocate.com, Cosmopolitan.com, Huffingtonpost.com, Rollingstone.com, Redfinery.com, Nerve.com, Time.com, and Bitchmag.com
Graphic Novels/Short Graphic Works
Come Out And Play: The Queer Sports Project, short story "The Barre", with artist Jam Dyer, Stacked Deck Press, 2025
InVisible, with artist Rhea Silvan, Seven Seas Publishing, 2009
How Loathsome, with artist /writer Ted Naifeh, NBM Publishing, 2004
"Little Earthquakes" short form piece in the anthology "Comic Book Tattoo'" edited by Rantz Hoseley, with artist Charlie Wylie. Image Publishing, 2008.