Oscar Zamora Graves

Oscar Zamora Graves is a gay collage and assemblage artist and an avid collector and archiver of vintage physique photography. He was born in Colima, Mexico, grew up in Orange County, and moved to San Francisco at 18. He studied Art and Art History at San Francisco State University and apprenticed as a decorative painter under Warner Graves. His interests in gay history heavily influence his art. He is inspired by artists like James, Bidgood, Harry Bush, and George Quaintance. 

His collages innovatively combine traditional and digital media. He scans images from original vintage magazines to create digital collages in Photoshop. He prints the individual elements from the digital collage onto photo paper, cuts them out, and reassembles them as three-dimensional pop-up paper collages. The result is a digital mixed-media composition masquerading as a traditional collage.

His art embraces the bold spirit of the 1960s by placing scantily clad beefcake models and vintage drag queens in vibrant, psychedelic, fantasy settings. His collages blend nostalgia with queer maximalism to offer a unique perspective of modern gay erotic art through a fusion of physique and fantasy.