Raul Pizarro

Raul Pizarro (born November 11, 1975) is a queer, disabled, latinx visual artist, known for his Day of the Dead series, as well as his paintings about his queerness and his disability.

Background Pizarro was born in 1975 in Mexicali, Mexico, and moved to Southern California.

Pizarro was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and since he was unable to continue making large canvas paintings, his paintings were smaller. In 2016, engineers from the Northrop Grumman FabLab at the Redondo Beach Space Park created a remote-controlled easel

Notable art Pizarro's paintings focus on the artists' intersectional identities as a disabled, queer, Latinx person raised evangelical. His visual work explores relationship between religion, disability and queerness.

Pizarro's Songs for a Deaf God series is a collection of oil-on-canvas paintings focused on identity and the intersection of gender identity, mental illness, and disability, namely in a religious context.