Clare Rojas paints, draws, makes animated films, writes, and performs in a band. Although the color, texture, and size of her paintings are reminiscent of 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints, they comprise a dark fantasy world in which adolescents are confronted with monsters and animals are transformed into surreal characters.

Rojas received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.