BAT SHOW 3.0
The 2025 Bat Show was a blast and bigger than ever!
This year we were hosted by 111 Minna - the legendary art center in downtown San Francisco.
Here are the artists of 2025. Give them a look, a follow and make new friends!
Ana Louro @alouro.illustration is a Portuguese illustrator who lives to draw bold, unapologetic, badass characters. Her work channels sharp attitude, gritty energy, and a love for people who refuse to behave. When she puts pencil to paper, the rebels, misfits, and troublemakers always come out on top.
Batty 🦇 Artemisia Farris @misia.soup is a San Francisco–born illustrator and painter who also works in photography, textiles, and ceramics. She began showing art as a kid in her father’s gallery and now apprentices as a couturier with her mother. SF and its creative community inspire all her work.
Black Metal Bat 🦇 Bob “GrAmPz” Tul @bob7890000 is a Sacramento-based guitarist for Chisme and a talented stamp artist. He blends his love of music and visual creativity, making his mark both in local punk scenes and the world of hand-carved art.
Bradley Riot @bradleyriot is a punk artist in Los Angeles, CA. His music and visual arts explore mortality, vulnerability, and the tension between chaos and control.
Duty Of Gutting Elon 🦇 Brandon Early @rad_astronaut, Vegas-born and now Portland-based, has been painting since 2017 to survive sobriety boredom. He works in acrylics, oils, watercolors, and linocuts, and has been featured in Birdy, local zines, a DEVO charity auction, and the NoFX BoxXx lyric sheet.
Turtle’s Tears 🦇 MARK OF THE BEAST @marksofthebeast pisses on brands, slashes their tires, and laughs at the wreckage. His art isn’t just parody, it’s a hex. Part middle finger, part prophecy - mocking the cult of brands and the death machine they serve. Logos rot, consumerism chokes, and the Beast grins.
Bat Goes Beat 🦇 Paris-born Portland artist Cécilia Meneau @wildsville_mosaic blends her punk music roots with vibrant, hand-cut mosaics inspired by mid-century style, rock ’n’ roll, exotica, pin-up culture, and her beloved cat, Manray. She crafts every tile by hand, creating bold, one-of-a-kind pieces.
Beat on the Bat 🦇 Charlie Vision’s @charlie_vision_illustration past is unclear: art school? Mob escape? Skatepark builder? Woodland hideout? All true, maybe. Now he illustrates peacefully— aside from that rumored VW van chase. Long Story.
Death from Above 🦇 Chad Yenney @chadyenney lives in Olympia, WA and has been working w collage art for awhile. In 2017 Chad curated and published a newspaper sized zine called “Holiday in Mar a Lago” with artists taking prompts from DK songs. Winston was invited to create the centerfold with “anarchy for sale.”
Guano In 60 Seconds 🦇 Chris Farris’ @christfarris practice explores thought and experience through daily writing and drawing that evolve into conceptual visual, sculptural, and performance work. Farris blends text, humor, and unruly color, questioning ideas of artistic “quality” and embracing both failure and success.
Chris Farris Alternative Tentacles Batman 🦇 David Young V @dyoungv is a San Francisco–based fine artist and muralist whose work is rooted in punk culture and shaped by the people and communities closest to them. DYV’s murals span the US, UK, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and this project is a chance to honor Alternative Tentacles and Winston Smith.
2+2=BAT 🦇 Drew Roulette @drewroulette blends whimsical transychedelia with raw emotional energy, creating vivid worlds where color, chaos, and curiosity collide. His work blurs fantasy and reality, inviting viewers into a playful, electrified dreamspace uniquely his own.
Bat Thing 🦇 Gurdish Haugsdal, aka Dish, @dish_kunst is a London-born, Bergen-based multidisciplinary artist. Her bold, feminine-yet-dark style spans hand-painted illustrations on vintage ceramics to large-scale murals, often exploring women and feminist themes in striking, unconventional ways.
Alternative Cute-icles 🦇 Hello the Mushroom @hellothemushroom is the pseudonym of Sara Lucas, a multidisciplinary artist from Lisbon, currently based in Oslo, by way of London. Their work can be found on the streets and in galleries the world over.
Naked Bat 🦇 Multimedia artist, animator, and illustrator, James Mariano @jas_fiend blends monster movies, Tex Avery, and Three Stooges into “Cartoon Absurdism.” Acrylics become giant animation cels exploring life, death, freedom, and absurdity with humor and a dash of Nietzsche, Camus, and Kerouac.
Jeffery Page @mrjefferypage is a multidisciplinary artist and tattooist blending painting, sculpture, and mixed media with abstraction, surrealism, and found materials. His eco-conscious, boundary-pushing work evokes emotion, challenges convention, and leaves a lasting impression.
Trust 🦇 Educator, filmmaker and musician Keith Emerson (no relation) is best known for the 2012 horror-comedy Porn Star Zombies, which he wrote, directed, and scored. Screened at Cannes and inspired by Lysistrata, the film remains his signature work, with a possible soundtrack and art prints in the wings.
Kepi Ghoulie @kepighoulie, ringleader of pop-punk monsters the Groovie Ghoulies, dabbled in country with the Haints, made solo folk and kids’ albums, rocked out for fun, then dug into the Ghoulies’ vaults to unleash reissues in the 2010s.
Bats on Parade 🦇 Key Dyer @Key.Dyer is a character artist from Sunnyvale, California with a passion for color, music, horror movies, and good vibes.
Vespertilio 🦇 Kori Thompson @kori15 captures the quiet depth hidden in everyday life. Through fine lines and bold strokes, his paintings and drawings preserve fleeting moments with emotional clarity. Born and raised in the South Bay, he loves family time, comics, music, and film.
KromeGang @krome_gang is a nomadic designer of infinite doom and unholy kerning.
Batdog 🦇 Em Vinzon @mystic_em24 is a diamond painting and mosaic artist who recently discovered a passion for transforming tiny pieces into vibrant works of art. She focuses on creating striking portraits of people and pets, while also crafting pieces that celebrate and showcase her subculture.
Echoes in Black Marrow 🦇 Matt Eskew @kingkan13 is a veteran artist with 25 years in film, TV, and games, contributing to studios like PlayStation and DreamWorks on films such as Madagascar and How to Train Your Dragon. He co-created The Adventures of Crash Tucker and plays bass in the LA punk band The Hellflowers.
Crass Bat 🦇 Matthew Kadi @matthewkadi is a photographer, designer, drummer extraordinaire, uncle, dog dad and beloved Art Director at Studio Fallout.
Alternative Felines 🦇 Michael Angelo Torres @michaelangelotorres is a San Francisco writer and visual artist who lives with his partner and two senior Chihuahuas, Ladybug and Cricket. He collects vintage mags, hunts for old records and zines, writes an animal-issues column for Bay Woof, and is the author of Cricket Doesn’t Like To Potty Outside!
The Night is Alive 🦇 Miss.Printed @miss.printed is a Norway-based artist bridging collage, photography, and street art. Born in the Netherlands, she creates “locative collages” photographed outdoors without digital editing, letting nature shape the work. Founder of The Collageclub and The Scandinavian Collage Museum, she champions small gestures that spark big imagination.
I'm Looking Forward to Death.🦇 Oscar Rodriguez (b. 1982) is an emerging artist from Los Angeles, CA. As a self taught artist utilizing the medium of paper maché, Oscar's early inspirations were formed through doodling animal-human hybrids that were influenced by his love of comics and cartoons. Through time, his influences have expanded into his culture and passion for travel, namely by Mexican folk art and the art he stumbles upon through his exploring around the world.
Wilmington illustrator Pat Higgins creates bold, socially charged art using traditional inks and digital methods. Known for Hellscape Americana, Pulp Bytes, and The Covidiot Files, he explores horror, satire, and modern anxieties with a dark, narrative-driven edge.
Keystone Creature 🦇 Perry, aka Pear Pear, @pelicansrule is a Bay Area artist working out of Helvella, a shared Oakland studio full of makers. Living a longtime dream, Perry thrives in group shows, loving the chance to connect, create, and share conversations with fellow artists.
Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel 🦇 Ray Carmen is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for Akron power- pop duo Librarians With Hickeys. Their third album, How to Make Friends By Telephone, is out on Big Stir Records. Since 1987, he’s made solo bubble-gum art-pop at home and, since 2024, bold primary-colored pop-art. https://linktr.ee/Ray_Carmen
The Bat Scroll 🦇 The invisible man of Punk Rock; Richard Enemy @ richard_enemy was born in East Los Angeles in the mid 80’s….growing up only miles away from the propaganda machine called Hollywood he watched and observed the deterioration of analog culture and information; slowly turning digital, and now recently AI interpreting this information. Through his recent works he attempts to study the dismantling of information…turning once man made works into ones and zeros. Through the transfer; information is slowly lost, but does the essence retains to be found in new ways? Breaking down the bat symbol is an attempt to ask that question…can we ever find our way back?
Rob Ginsberg @rob_ginsberg aka D.A.S.A. (Devolved Art Strategically Aimed) was born on Planet Earth and decided to live his life in dedication of taking all pop cultural things and devolving them into a solid state of artistic consciousness of Devo-ness for the last 15 years.
A Bat of Flesh 🦇 Rob Reger @robreger is the founder and creative director of Cosmic Debris, blending DIY punk, guerrilla art, surrealism, and ’60s psychedelia. Creator of Emily the Strange, he channels music, nature, and pop-surrealist energy into work shown in galleries worldwide.
Batbot 🦇 Robert Bowen @bowenstuff is a visual artist based in San Francisco, CA. He got his start in the graffiti and street art scene before shifting to focus on fine art. Bowen has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. and abroad for over twenty-five years. His work has been shown at galleries and museums, including the de Young Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, 111 Minna Gallery, and Modern Eden Gallery.
Midnight 🦇 Robin Street-Morris @streetmorrisart, San Diego artist and amateur naturalist, captures landscapes and wildlife under threat from human consumption and profit-driven pressures through her paintings and photography.
Rosie Elias is an artist from Pacoima, California, and the creator of Arana Negra, a small business crafting custom skateboard art and accepting artist commissions. Working solo, she’s built meaningful opportunities and hopes to share her art and boards with people everywhere.
Release the Bats! 🦇 Rufus Dayglo @rufus_dayglo_art, based in France, draws comics like Tank Girl, Bad Company, and Counterfeit Girl with wild energy. He’s worked with 2000AD, Image, and DC Vertigo—and when he’s not drawing, he’s sipping coffee, snacking on Kit Kats, and collecting Gundam robots.
Good Business 🦇 Ryan De La Hoz @ryan_delahoz is a San Francisco artist whose work explores the tension between past and present, focusing on loss, hope, dissent, and environmental destruction. Using diverse media, he examines modern life. His exhibitions span the U.S., with publications worldwide.
Bat Bath 🦇 Seth Busino @seth_bat is a San Francisco–based artist with roots in graphic design, photography, and prop and costume fabrication. A surgical nurse by trade, he also creates electronic music as Isopod. Influenced by John Mollo, Wayne Thiebaud, Winston Smith, the Okudas, Gordon Parks, Bruce Gilden, and Mœbius, he balances craft, curiosity, and a household ruled by his cats.
Zachary Smith @cannibalsuperstaraart, known as Cannibal Art, is a Riverside, CA–based multidisciplinary artist working in oils, acrylics, charcoal, inks, photography, and digital media. His work digs into life, death, and existential dread, revealing the strange beauty and dark humor hidden in the human condition.
Zachary Sweet @Zacharysweets creates whimsical, macabre paintings and illustrations of monsters, creeps, and beautiful horrors. Inspired by the supernatural, dreams, and near-death experiences, his work mixes dark subject matter with playfulness and satire, reflecting the madness of the human condition.