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Robert Liu-Trujillo

Born in Oakland, California, August 31st, 1979

Education

BFA, Parsons-The New School, NY 2010

Books

• A Bean and Cheese Taco Birthday, Arte Publico Press, 2015 (illustrator)
• I am Sausal Creek, Nomadic Press, 2015 (illustrator)
• Furqan’s First Flat Top, Come Bien Books, 2016 (author & illustrator)
• One of a Kind, Like Me, Blood Orange Press, 2016 (illustrator)
• 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Boy, Penny Candy Books, 2018 (Contributing illustrator)
• Sam! , Penny Candy Books, 2019 (illustrator)

Speaking

• Panelist with Trust Your Struggle Collective, Sacramento, CA, 2019
• ACLU 100 Panel, Celebrating 100 Years of the ACLU, Oakland, CA, 2019
• Panelist with Rad Families, The Anarchist Book Fair, Oakland CA, 2017
• Speaker, Book Passage Conference, Corte Madera CA, 2017
• Panelist, SF Writers Conference, San Francisco CA, 2016
• Panelist, LitQuake for Kids, San Francisco CA, 2016

Highlights & Achievements

• YBCA 100 Honoree
• Co-organizer of the Social Justice Children’s Book Holiday Fair
• Nominated for a Newbury children’s book Illustrator Award
• Featured artist in Mother Magazine
• Featured artist on the 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog
• Artist in residence, Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
• Painted in and helped organize the 2008 Trust Your Hustle Tour

• Worked as a teaching artist nationally for over 10 years
• Co-Founder of and contributor to the Trust Your Struggle Collective
• Contributing Dad and Rad families advocate with Rad Dad Collective
• Contributing writer to Muphoric Sounds music blog

Select Press

• Mother Magazine, Blog Feature 2020
• Radix Media, Blog Feature, 2019
• The Stoop, Podcast Feature, 2018
• We’re The People Summer Reading List, 2017
• School Library Journal, Book Feature, 2016
• Univision 19 Interview, Sacramento CA, 2016
• Latinos in Kid Lit, Blog Interview & Review 2016
• Nerds of Color, Book Feature, 2016
• Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California, 2016
• Taco Talk, CultureStrike Interview, Oakland, CA 2016

Select Gallery Shows/ Installations

• Beyond the Diaspora, MACLA, San Jose, CA 2021
• My homies are my Heroes, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 2020
• Celebrating 16 years of Trust Your Struggle Collective, Sol Collective, Sacramento, CA 2019
• Trust Your Struggle Collective at Amor Eterno, Amor Eterno Gallery & Tattoo, Oakland, CA 2019
• Lil Radicals, Booklyn, NY 2019
• “Black is Beautiful”, Guerilla Cafe, Berkeley, CA 2018
• “(under) REPRESENT (ed)”, Parsons, New York, NY 2017
• “Tooned In”, CultureStrike, Oakland, CA 2017
• “Illustrated Justice”, Omi Gallery, Oakland, CA 2017
• “Bold as Love”, Spirithaus Gallery, Oakland, CA 2017
• “Of Love & Riots 2”, Presented by Sol Collective, Sacramento, CA 2015
• “Visions from the Inside”, Betti Ono Gallery & CultureStrike, Oakland, CA 2015
• “Celebrate You”, Presented by Evan Bissell and The Trust Your Struggle Collective, Oakland, CA 2012
• “Alpha and Omega”, Presented by Ear Wax Records, Berkeley, CA 2012
• “Aerosoul 3”, Presented by the African American Arts and Culture Complex, SF, CA 2012
• “Emory Douglas”, Presented by Pueblo Nuevo Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2011
• “The Societies of Fine Art & Collectibles”, Sponsored by The Liberator Magazine, Brooklyn, NY 2011
• “Supernatural”, Presented By Guerrero Gallery and Brett Cook, SF, CA 2010
• “Sew Seoulful”, Presented by Fresthetic Store, Brooklyn, NY 2009 (Solo Exhibition)
• “Live To Change Something”, Coup d’Etat, Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 2009
• “Hoodscrapers”, Sponsored by Ann st Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2009
• “The Black Show”, Sponsored by D*Structure, SF, CA 2008
• “Love and Riots”, 58 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ 2007
• “In the Streets Fest”, Sponsored by The Luggage Store Gallery, SF, CA 2006
• “All City Sacred”, Sponsored by TYS Collective and RPS Collective, Oakland, CA 2006
• “In Struggle We Trust”, Sponsored by Pittsburg Art Foundation, Pittsburg, CA 2003

Mural Projects

• Love & Protect, BLK & Asian Mobile murals, Oakland Chinatown, CA 2021
• Black Lives w/ Binta Ayofemi, Oakland, CA 2020
• “Rasmea & Oscar”, Reem’s, Oakland, CA 2017
• Sunnydale Community Center, San Francisco, CA 2015
• Chapter 510, Dept of Make Believe, Oakland, CA 2015
• West Oakland Youth Center, Oakland, CA 2014
• Trayvon Martin Mural, Sponsored by Youth Radio, Oakland, CA 2013
• Chinatown Mural, Sponsored by Lailan Huen, Oakland, CA 2012
• Arts in Motion, Sponsored by Beats Rhymes and Life, San Leandro, CA 2012
• El Cerrito High School Mural, Sponsored by The James Morehouse Project, El Cerrito, CA 2011
• San Francisco Art Institute, Mural Sponsored by Brett Cook, SF, CA 2011
• “Tuloy Po Kayo“, Kul ARTS and Filipino Community Center, San Francisco, CA 2011
• Water Writes Mural, Funded by The Estria Foundation, Oakland, CA 2010
• California Hotel, Presented by Peoples Grocery, Oakland, CA 2010
• “El Relevo”, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA 2010
• RYSE Center 2, Sponsored by The Ryse Center, Richmond, CA 2010
• Afro Punk Festival, Sponsored by Toyota, Brooklyn, NY 2009
• Native Movements, Trust Your Hustle Tour (TYH) 2008 Flagstaff, AZ 2008
• The Victory Grill, Historic Site, TYH 2008, Austin, TX 2008
• Craig’s Cultural Center, TYH 2008, New Orleans, LA 2008
• Omenala Griot Center, TYH 2008, Atlanta, GA 2008
• “Trust Your Struggle”, Little 5 Points, Atlanta, GA 2008
• Rush Philanthropic Corridor Gallery Rooftop, Brooklyn, NY 2008
• Wampanoag Nation, Boston, MA 2008
• Rooftop Legends 2, Presented by Open Road & New Design High School, New York, NY 2008
• Trinity International Hip Hop Festival, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2007
• RYSE Center, Ryse Center, Richmond, CA 2006
• La Clinica de la Raza, San Leandro High School, San Leandro, CA 2006

Selected Illustration Clients

• Asian Art Museum
• Arte Publico Press
• UTNE Reader
• San Francisco Bay Guardian
• Culture Strike
• Mosaic Literary Magazine
• Akonadi Foundation
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
• Rethinking Schools Magazine